Wagner: The Great Operas

EMI: 9733592

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Wagner: The Great Operas

Label:

EMI

Catalogue No:

9733592

Discs:

36

Release date:

29th Oct 2012

Barcode:

5099997335924

Medium:

CD
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Wagner: The Great Operas


Wagner:

Rienzi

René Kollo (Cola Rienzi), Siv Wennberg (Irene), Nikolaus Hillebrand (Steffano Colonna) & Janis Martin (Adriano Colonna)

Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Heinrich Hollreiser

Der fliegende Holländer

Theo Adam (Dutchman), Anja Silja (Senta) & Martti Talvela (Daland)

BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Tannhäuser

Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram von Eschenbach) & Waltraud Meier (Venus)

Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Bernard Haitink

Lohengrin

Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grummer (Elsa of Brabant), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Friedrich von Telramund)

Choir of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Robert Hale (Wotan), Marjana Lipovsek (Fricka), Ekkehard Wlaschina (Alberich), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Kurt Moll (Fafner, Hunding), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Julia Varady (Sieglinde ), Robert Schunk (Siegmund), René Kollo (Siegfried), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Hans Günter Nöcker (Gunther) & Lisbeth Balslev (Gutrune)

Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera & Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Tristan und Isolde

Plácido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimara (Brangaene) & René Pape (King Mark)

Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera Hous, Antonio Pappano

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Theo Adam (Hans Sachs), Geraint Evans (Sixtus Beckmesser), René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing), Peter Schreier (David) & Helen Donath (Eva)

Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Choir of the Leipzig Radio Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert von Karajan

Parsifal

Donald McIntyre (Gurnemanz), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Phillip Joll (Amfortas) & Warren Ellsworth (Parsifal)

Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Reginald Goodall


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36 CD box presenting 11 of Wagner's operas - including a complete Ring Cycle Release

60page booklet

Wagner's operas broke new ground in terms of both the harmonic language and on approach to the genre in which narrative and drama took precedence over the restrictions of musical Form. Encompassing the profoundly human themes of love, death, redemption, power and revenge, the operas made ​​unprecedented demands on singers' stamina and virtuosity. This 36-CD box presents a comprehensive survey of Wagner's great operas and features a wealth of legendary artists, many of whom are renowned for their Particularly interpretations of Wagner's music.

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