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What opera are you currently listening to / watching? CD/DVD

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Share your current cd or dvds here.......................
 
#174 ·
Strauss, Capriccio.
Karl Bohm conducting.
exquisite.
 
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I recently listened to Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko. I don't know what exactly I had expected it to be like, maybe something very sovietlike. It turned out to be perfectly listenable Prokofiev. I didn't even read the libretto, but it was ok, although I knew the plot only very superficially.
 
#184 ·
FREITAG-VERSUCHUNG [1991-94]
for 5 musical performers
(soprano, baritone, bass, flute, basset-horn) /
children's orchestra, children's choir, 12 choir singers /
a synthesizer player /
12 couples of dancer-mimes (ad lib. in concert performances) /
electronic music with sound scenes (24-track tape) /
sound projectionist

total time: 145 minutes

 
#187 ·
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orphée et Eurydice

Italian (1762 Vienna or 1889 Ricordi, with some additions from the Paris version):

Kathleen Ferrier, Greet Koeman, Nel Duval, Orchestra and Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, Charles Bruck, 1951

Maureen Forrester, Teresa Stich-Randall, Hanny Staffek, Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Akademiechor, Charles Mackerras, 1966

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gundula Janowitz, Thomas Moser, Münchener Bach-Chor und Orchester, Karl Richter, 1967

Marilyn Horne, Filar Lorengar, Helen Donath, Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Georg Solti, 1969

French (1774 Paris or 1859 Berlioz):

Nicolai Gedda, Janine Micheau, Liliane Berton , Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Louis de Froment, 1955

Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Hendricks, Brigitte Fournier, Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, 1989

Richard Croft, Mireille Delunsch, Marion Harousseau, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, 2004 (with original period instruments)

I'm still going to get more recorded versions, including that one with Jesús López-Cobos conducting the orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid and Juan Diego Florez as Orphée.
 
#195 ·
I watched the song contest. Great Sachs. Great Beckmesser. Fantastic staging. The Walter wasn't really a heldentenor, but he managed. Everyone looked their parts. Good sound, although the band sounded like it was under the Bayreuth cowl. Wonderful photography. Overall very good. Who needs Wagner's great granddaughter?
 
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