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Swedish operatic soprano (1843-1921)
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2023-11-28 14:00:29
Jailhouse Roccos
Chris’s Cache wraps up November with Régine Crespin’s Chicago Leonore; two rare Met Fidelios headed by Christa Ludwig and Hildegard Behrens; and a concert performance with Birgit Nilsson led by Leonard Bernstein, plus a final twist: excerpts of Carol Vaness in Leonore.
2023-09-18 14:36:19
Several Conductors, 2023
[…] Vienna opera. For many years Böhm was a Nazi sympathizer, though never a member of the NSDAP; after the war, he went through a two-year denazification period, and then his career took off again. He continued his engagements with Vienna and Dresden, conducted in South America, and made a very successful New York debut in 1957. He frequently led the Metropolitan, premiering operas by Berg and Strauss and successfully conducting many of Wagner’s operas (Birgit Nilsson debuted under Böhm’s baton). Böhm’s final engagements were in London, at Covent Garden and with the London Symphony. He died on August 14th of 1981, two weeks shy of his 87th birthday. Here is Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), a tone poem from 1898. Karl Böhm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. This recording was made in 1976. Also, quite recently we came across a DW documentary from 2022 called Music in […]
2023-09-18 14:34:16
Several Conductors, 2023
[…] Vienna opera. For many years Böhm was a Nazi sympathizer, though never a member of the NSDAP; after the war, he went through a two-year denazification period, and then his career took off again. He continued his engagements with Vienna and Dresden, conducted in South America, and made a very successful New York debut in 1957. He frequently led the Metropolitan, premiering operas by Berg and Strauss and successfully conducting many of Wagner’s operas (Birgit Nilsson debuted under Böhm’s baton). Böhm’s final engagements were in London, at Covent Garden and with the London Symphony. He died on August 14th of 1981, two weeks shy of his 87th birthday. Here is Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), a tone poem from 1898. Karl Böhm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. This recording was made in 1976. Also, quite recently we came across a DW documentary from 2022 called Music in […]
2023-08-16 09:13:00
Bayreuth Festival (1) - Der fliegende Holländer, 14 August 2023
[…] Schubert ballads and even Bach as it was echt-Wagnerian, was a rare prize, fundamental to our experience, as was Georg Zeppenfeld’s luxury casting as Daland. I say ‘luxury’, but in fact a signal virtue of this performance and this production was to have one realise quite how important and complex the role should be. Elisabeth Teige’s Senta was fully the equal of the portrayals of her illustrious peers. A fittingly Nordic heroine, as steely as Nilsson when required, yet probably more variegated in response to very particular stage requirements, she understandably received thunderous applause. Erik is a difficult role; one cannot (usually) be unduly heroic or assertive. Tomislav Mužek nevertheless impressed in another excellent performance. Eberhard Friedrich’s Bayreuth Festival Chorus was likewise on first-rate form, as it must be. A rooted community that can yet be swayed, it offered an almost Bach Passion-like combination of participation and observation. That […]
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