Wiener Staatsoper Live
Live recordings of the Vienna State Opera.
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedMartti Talvela (King Henry), Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Claire Watson (Elsa), Walter Berry (Telramund), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Eberhard Waechter (Herald), Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Sperlbauer, Herbert Lackner & Ljubomir Pantscheff
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Claire Watson excels her studio performances, singing Elsa with floods of pure tone that rarely falters...[Ludwig's] 'Entweihte Götter!' literally stops the show...Waechter makes a keen Herald,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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It’s an interesting collection, The excerpts aren’t always the obvious ones…Some of the singing isn’t terrific…but Prince Yeletsky in the Queen of Spades (1999) was the perfect role for him:... — More…
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Verdi: Macbeth
RecommendedSherrill Milnes (Macbeth), Christa Ludwig (Lady Macbeth), Karl Ridderbusch (Banquo), Carlo Cossutta (Macduff), Gildis Flossman (Dama) & Ewald Aichberger (Malcolm)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
Lady Macbeth has rarely seemed more of a Lady than in Ludwig’s hands on this live 1970 recording from Vienna – her arch-manipulator is regal, elegant and icily pragmatic right up until the final... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Strauss, R: Elektra
Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Wolfgang Windgassen (Aegisth), Eberhard Waechter (Orest), Fredrick Guthrie (Der Pfleger der Orest), Margareta Sjöstedt (Vertraute), Margarita Lilova (Schleppträgerin), Gerhard Unger (Junger Diener), Herbert Lackner...
[Nilsson] is achingly tender in the recognition scene with Orestes, vividly obsequious as she lures Aegisthus to his death and tireless in her final, fatal dance...like Nilsson, [Resnik] really... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
1997 - 2014: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss
Johan Botha (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), James Rutherford (Sachs), Angela Denoke (Kundry), Marjana Lipovšek (Amme), Ricarda Merbeth (Daphne), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Valentina Nafornită (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta)
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The recorded sound is produced to a consistently pleasing quality, and one does sense the special atmosphere of the live performance. Live at Wiener Staatsoper, this first-rate collection is... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114
Gabriela Benackova-Cap (Rusalka), Peter Dvorsky (Prince), Eva Randova (Foreign Princess/Jezibaba), Jewgenij Nesterenko (Water Goblin), Alexander Maly (Hunter), Noriko Saski (First Naiad), Gabriele Sima (Second Naiad), Margareta Hintermeier (Third Naiad)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper,...
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Ramón Vargas (Don Carlos), Alastair Miles (Philippe II), Bo Skovhus (Rodrigue), Nadja Michael (La Princesse Eboli), Iano Tamar (Elisabeth de Valois), Simon Yang (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Cornelia Salje (Thibault), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Un Moine), Benedikt Kobel (Le Compte de Lerme), Inna Los (Un Voix...
This is an issue of major importance, which all lovers of Verdi should acquire, since it will enable them to hear about 45 minutes of his most mature music which is otherwise not available…... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Opera Choice
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli (Chénier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena di Coigny), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gérard), Elisabeth Höngen (Contessa di Coigny), Hilde Konetzni (Madelon) & Margareta Sjöstedt (Bersi)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Lovro von Matacic
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Puccini: Turandot
Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Peter Klein (Altoum), Giuseppe di Stefano (Calaf), Leontyne Price (Liu), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Kostas Paskalis (Ping), Ermanno Lorenzi (Pang), Murray Dickie (Pong) & Alois Pernersdorfer (Mandarin)
Choir & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
It's not so hard to think oneself present, especially when the recording is as vivid as this and the performance so compelling. It was a special night in Vienna. Karl Löbl wrote it up (and partly... — More…
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There is a beautiful control of line and length of phrase in the Swede’s singing [of the final scene of Siegfried], together with a beyond fearless placing of the tessitura – a special performance,... — More…
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