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Kalman: Die Bajadere
Alfred Grünwald Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost, Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz, Miljenko Turk, Christian Sturm, Dirk Schmitz, Ulrich Hielscher
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Richard Bonynge
A wholly charming operetta excellently performed. Not to be missed by operetta lovers!
Kalman: Die Bajadere
Alfred Grünwald Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost, Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz, Miljenko Turk, Christian Sturm, Dirk Schmitz, Ulrich Hielscher
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Richard Bonynge
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A wholly charming operetta excellently performed. Not to be missed by operetta lovers!
About
Emmerich Kálmán’s music fuses Hungarian folk melodies and the Viennese waltz, displaying operatic and melodramatic elements, and illustrating the “American dance” style of the time. It also offers exotic tonal colours like those of the tárogató, and rhythms designed to evoke faraway climes. This work numbers among the highlights in Kálmán’s operetta oeuvre. In 2014 the WDR presented a concert performance of The Bayadere and then went on to produce this work in the studio. We are happy and proud now to be able to release this benchmark production on cpo.
Contents and tracklist
- Dirk Schmitz (tenor), Christian Sturm (tenor), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Genz (baritone), Heike Susanne Daum (soprano), Rainer Trost (tenor), Ulrich Hielscher (bass), Miljenko Turk (baritone)
- WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 5-14 February 2014
- Recording Venue: Köln, WDR, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
Awards and reviews
May 2017
A wholly charming operetta excellently performed. Not to be missed by operetta lovers!
September 2017
It's dazzingly lavish, cosmopolitan entertainment, and more. Some numbers have real edge, foreshadowing the Musiktheater style of the composer's friend Kurt Weill. This is Richard Bonynge's third full length Kalman set, and under his sure-handed, surprisingly intense direction, singers and orchestra have a good go at getting under the work's surface.
