Irene Dalis: Recital: Works by Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Gluck, Bizet

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Her searing account of 'Divinités du Styx' (auf Deutsch) is something formidable, and her 'Bel raggio lusinghier', stylishly sung in the original key with good coloratura, comes as a revelation.... — Opera, July 2018 More…

Release Date: 8th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: PH17044
Label: Profil Medien
Length: 76 minutes

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Ochs, S: Dank sei dir, Herr

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Dank sei dir, Herr (Attrib. G.F. Handel)

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Excerpt, Handel: Serse

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fù "Largo"

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Excerpt, Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: V'adoro pupille

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Giordani, G: Caro mio ben

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Gluck: Alceste, Wq. 44

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Alceste, Wq. 44: Ihr Gottes ew'ger nacht (Sung in German)

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Excerpt, Rossini: Semiramide

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier

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Excerpt, Verdi: Don Carlo

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Don Carlo: O don fatale

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German)

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin
Recorded: 1957-1958

Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Draussen am Wall von Sevilla [1]

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Ja, die Liebe hat bunte Flügel

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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 (Highlights Sung in German)

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin
Recorded: 1957-1958

Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 (Highlights Sung in German): Mein herz erschließet sich

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Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 (Highlights Sung in German): Die sonne, sie lachte

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Excerpt, Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

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Irene Dalis (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra of the Städtische Oper, Berlin
Wolfgang Martin

Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Einsam wachend in der Nacht

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German)

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Recorded: 1957-1958

Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Vorspiel

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Ha, sie kommt!

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Ich seh' die Mutter dort

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Draussen am Wall von Sevilla [2]

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Euren Toast kann ich wohl erwidern

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Hier an dem Herzen treu geborgen

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Wenn dir die Karten einmal bittres Unheil kunden "Kartenlied"

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Ich sprach, dass ich furchtlos mich fühle

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Carmen, WD 31 (Highlights Sung in German): Ach, all mein hoffen und mein lieben

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Despite her modest discography, Irene Dalis was a singer of global renown. She played the Nurse in the American premiere of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) in San Francisco in 1959 and did the same at the British premiere in London in 1966. She continued her stage career until 1977. She subsequently taught singing at her own studio. An ‘Honored Citizen of the City of San José’, she started to direct the city’s opera company in 1984 and continued to do so for nearly 30 years. She retired from her office in 2014 and died after a brief illness. Since the two studio recordings reissued here are all that remains of her heyday as a singer, this recital, which was first released in 1960 (with the tracks in a different order), and the rare medley of Carmen pieces are to be treasured all the more.

The recital was transferred onto CD by remastering two LPs pressed by TELEFUNKEN (one a German edition; the other British). The Carmen medley was transferred by means of a mono LP pressed by TELEFUNKEN in Germany. By using modern technology, the remastering studio was able to eliminate nearly all the distortions on the original LPs. This sole surviving recital by the singer is highly coveted among collectors and music-lovers after decades of searching and is thus, alongside the Carmen medley, a valuable account of a great artist who can now be heard again.

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July 2018

Her searing account of 'Divinités du Styx' (auf Deutsch) is something formidable, and her 'Bel raggio lusinghier', stylishly sung in the original key with good coloratura, comes as a revelation. Still, I keep coming back to 'O don fatale', sung with blazing intensity and a stunning high C flat - this best represents the mainstream of her career.

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