Lisa della Casa: Vienna State Opera 1955-1971

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: C685091B
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Wiener Staatsoper Live
Length: 76 minutes

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Excerpt, Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Work length15:49

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Lisa della Casa (soprano), Anton Dermota (tenor)
Wiener Staatsoper
Karl Böhm
Recorded: 06 November 1955

Act I: Schnell, dem Vater zu helfen - Fliehe, Verrater, fliehe!

Track length7:33

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Act II: Auf, troste dich, o Teure! - Ich grausam? - Sage nicht, o Heissgeliebter

Track length8:16

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Excerpt, Mozart: Idomeneo, K366

Work length13:04

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Lisa della Casa (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor)
Wiener Staatsoper
Jaroslav Krombholc
Recorded: 14 March 1971

Act I: Quando avran fine omai - Padre, germani, addio!

Track length6:59

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Act III: Principessa, a' tuoi sguardi - Spiegarti non poss'io

Track length6:05

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Excerpt, Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Work length9:47

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Lisa della Casa (soprano), Otto Wiener (bass), Jean Madeira (mezzo-soprano), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Murray Dickie (tenor)
Wiener Staatsoper
Heinz Wallberg
Recorded: 27 May 1967

Act III: Hat man mit dem Schuhwerk nicht seine Not! - O Sachs! Mein Freund!

Track length5:24

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Act III: Selig, wie die Sonne

Track length4:23

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Einem: Dantons Tod, Op. 6

Work length4:31

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Lisa della Casa (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Josef Krips

Dantons Tod, Act I: Das ist eine bose Zeit

Track length4:31

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Capriccio

Work length14:31

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Lisa della Casa (soprano)
Wiener Staatsoper
Georges Prêtre

Capriccio, Op. 85, TrV 279: Scene 13: Morgen mittag um elf!

Track length14:31

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Arabella

Work length19:13

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Lisa della Casa (soprano), Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano), Hugh Beresford (vocals)
Wiener Staatsoper
Joseph Keilberth
Recorded: 21 June 1964

Act I: Ich danke, Fraulein - Aber der Richtige

Track length10:55

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Act III: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka

Track length8:18

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No singer at the Vienna State Opera or elsewhere has been as closely associated with the title role in Strauss's Arabella as Lisa Della Casa, who celebrates her 90th birthday on 2 February 2009, and yet we should be guilty of doing the Swiss soprano a grave disservice by reducing her repertory to this one role alone.This point is well illustrated by an impressive portrait of the singer that is released as part of ORFEO's series 'Wiener Staatsoper live'. Lisa Della Casa took part in the opening performances in the rebuilt house in 1955, a bundle of nervous energy as Donna Anna under Karl Böhm, with Anton Dermota as Don Ottavio.With the silvery gleam of her soprano and her crystalline high notes, she was also a natural choice as Eva in Die Meistersinger, a role she also sang at Bayreuth and the Met. Here she demonstrates that she was capable of raising standards to those worthy of an international festival whenever she appeared with other world-class singers.The same is true of the closing scene from Capriccio under Georges Prêtre and of the scene from Arabella in which her sister, Zdenka, is played by Anneliese Rothenberger in an inspired piece of casting. As Lucile in Gottfried von Einem's Dantons Tod, under Josef Krips in 1967, she proved a worthy successor to Maria Cebotari, who at the start of Della Casa's career had recommended her younger colleague for more challenging roles.Von Einem's opera by no means marked a new direction in the singer's career: far from taking on character roles in the later stages of her career, she was still singing lyric soprano roles until shortly before she retired from the stage. A unique voice, with distinctive simplicity and even phrasing.

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