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AE204 represents the breadth of the house's standard works omitting...
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With AE004, the Audio Encyclopedia represented the Bavarian State Opera in its
presentations of the operas Richard Strauss, native son of München. The present
volume omits Strauss and two other major groups of works: the operas of Wagner and
those of the 20th century. We have tried to represent here the breadth of the house's
standard works with those exceptions.
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| Opera |
Conductor |
Selected Cast |
| Adriana Lecouvreur |
Roberto Abbado |
Margaret Price, Neil Shicoff, Bruna Baglioni |
| La Boheme |
Carlos Kleiber |
Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Wolfgang Brendel |
| La clemenza di Tito |
Bernard Klee |
Gösta Winbergh, Julia Varady, Ann Murray |
| Don Carlo |
Carlo Felice Cillario |
Eugene Nesterenko, Giorgio Lamberti |
| Don Giovanni |
Wolfgang Sawallisch |
Ruggero Raimondi, Stafford Dean, Margaret Price |
| Faust |
Georges Prêtre |
Giacomo Aragall, Mirella Freni,Ruggero Raimondi |
| Fidelio |
Karl Böhm |
Hildegard Behrens, James King, Kurt Moll |
| Die Fledermaus |
Carlos Kleiber |
Lucia Popp, Bernd Weikl, Janet Perry |
| Gianni Schicchi |
Wolfgang Sawallisch |
Rolando Panerai, Lucia Popp, Peter Kelen |
| L'incoronazione di Poppea |
Ivor Bolton |
Anna Catarina Antonacci, David Daniels |
| Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor |
Wolfgang Sawallisch |
Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel |
| Manon |
Julius Rudel |
Edita Gruberova, Alberto Cupido, Alberto Rinaldi |
| Manon Lescaut |
Giuseppe Patanè |
Mirella Freni, Ermanno Mauro, Rolando Panerai |
| Maria Stuarda |
Jesus Lopez Cobos |
Montserrat Caballé, Brigitte Fassbaender |
| Le Nozze di Figaro |
Colin Davis |
Hermann Prey, Helen Donath, Thomas Allen |
| Pikovaya Dama |
Algis Shuraitis |
Vladimir Atlantov, Julia Varady, Elena Obraztsova |
| Rigoletto |
Giuseppe Patanè |
Matteo Manuguerra, Lucia Aliberti, Piero Visconti |
| Tosca |
Giuseppe Patanè |
Raina Kabaivanska, Giacomo Aragall, Ingvar Wixell |
| La Traviata |
Carlos Kleiber |
Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Wolfgang Brendel |
| Werther |
Michel Plasson |
Neil Shicoff, Brigitte Fassbaender |
| Die Zauberflöte |
Wolfgang Sawallisch |
Kurt Moll, Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza |
Clips with Descriptions
The Bavarian State Opera in Munich is not only one of the great opera houses
of the world, it was also the home theater for Richard Strauss, whose first and
last premieres were offered there. Indeed, the CD-ROM, Operas of Richard
Strauss, is taken almost entirely from performances in München, so we
have not included Strauss's works on Opera from Munich. We have also
arbitrarily saved the company's performances of Wagner and of contemporary
opera for another project. On this CD-ROM, we provide a view of the rest of the
company's repertoire.
For the illustrations here, I've chosen some representative duets for tenor
and soprano - simply because there needed some criterion was needed.
Adriana Lecouvreur offers Margaret Price and Neil
Shicoff under Roberto Abbado in a 1990 performance.
Faust featured Mirella Freni and Jaime Aragall led
by Georges Prêtre.
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is as bright as
ever but far from trivial when heard, as here, with Wolfgang Sawallisch
conducting Julie Kaufmann and Peter Seiffert. While this selection does not
convey the wit and sonority of Lucia Popp, Kurt Moll and the others in the
cast, it suggests the joy of the work and the performance.
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