Die Fledermaus [sound recording] / Strauss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 421 046-2 | London421 047-2 | London421 048-2 | LondonOSA 1319 | LondonSpoken language: German Series: Originals (London, England)Publication details: London ; New York, N.Y. : London, [1987], p1960.Description: 2 sound discs (143 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • M1500.S899 F4 L6 1987
Partial contents:
Gala. Die lustige Witwe. Vilja-Lied / Lehár (Renata Tebaldi) -- Domino / Ferari (Fernando Corena) -- My fair lady. I could have danced all night / Loewe (Birgit Nilsson) -- Passione / Valente (Mario del Monaco) -- Lullaby / Lavilla (Teresa Berganza) -- Il bacio / Arditi (Joan Sutherland) -- Das Land des Lächelns. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz / Lehár (Jussi Björling) -- Porgy & Bess. Summertime / Gershwin (Leontyne Price) -- Annie get your gun. Anything you can do / Irving Berlin (Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini) -- Wien, Wien, nur du allein / Sieczyński (Ljuba Welitsch).
Hilde Gueden, Erika Köth, sopranos ; Regina Resnik, contralto ; Giuseppe Zampieri, Waldemar Kmentt, tenors ; Erich Kunz, Eberhard Wächter, baritones ; Walter Berry, bass ; supporting soloists ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; Wiener Staatsopernchor ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor.
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London: 421 046-2 (421 047-2--421 048-2).

Opera in 3 acts.

"Gala performance"--Container.

Libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée, after Meilhac and Halévy.

Originally released in 1960 as analog discs on London: OSA 1319.

"Gala sequence" consists of songs and arias sung by Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Joan Sutherland, and others.

Compact discs.

Program notes by Gordon Stewart, in English with French and German translations, synopsis in the same languages and Italian, and libretto with English and French translations (274 p. : ill.)--included.

Gala. Die lustige Witwe. Vilja-Lied / Lehár (Renata Tebaldi) -- Domino / Ferari (Fernando Corena) -- My fair lady. I could have danced all night / Loewe (Birgit Nilsson) -- Passione / Valente (Mario del Monaco) -- Lullaby / Lavilla (Teresa Berganza) -- Il bacio / Arditi (Joan Sutherland) -- Das Land des Lächelns. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz / Lehár (Jussi Björling) -- Porgy & Bess. Summertime / Gershwin (Leontyne Price) -- Annie get your gun. Anything you can do / Irving Berlin (Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini) -- Wien, Wien, nur du allein / Sieczyński (Ljuba Welitsch).

Hilde Gueden, Erika Köth, sopranos ; Regina Resnik, contralto ; Giuseppe Zampieri, Waldemar Kmentt, tenors ; Erich Kunz, Eberhard Wächter, baritones ; Walter Berry, bass ; supporting soloists ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; Wiener Staatsopernchor ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor.

Recorded in the Sofiensaal, Vienna, June 1960.

Sung in German.