Ljuba Welitsch

Release Date: 8th Jun 2009
Catalogue No: NI795960
Label: Nimbus
Series: Prima Voce
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

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Excerpt, Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

Work length13:31

Ljuba Welitsch, Alessio de Paolis
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Fritz Reiner

Don Ottavio, son morta!...Or sai, chi l'onore (Recorded 1950)

Track length6:43

Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!...Non mi dir (Recorded 1950)

Track length6:48

Weber: Der Freischütz, Op.77: Wie nahte mir der Schlummer…Leise, Leise (Recorded 1948)

Work length8:29

Ljuba Welitsch
Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Walter Susskind

Excerpt, Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Work length9:01

Ljuba Welitsch
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Rudolf Moralt

Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (Recorded 1950)

Track length5:00

Morrò, ma prima in grazia (Recorded 1950)

Track length4:01

Verdi: Aida: Ritorna vincitor (Recorded 1947)

Work length6:14

Ljuba Welitsch
Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Josef Kripps

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24: Titania's Letter Scene (Recorded 1948)

Work length14:07

Ljuba Welitsch
Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Walter Susskind

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame

Work length9:12

Ljuba Welitsch
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Rudolf Moralt

Ich muss am Fenster lehnen (Recorded 1950)

Track length4:14

Es geht auf Mitternacht (Recorded 1950)

Track length4:58

Excerpt, Puccini: Tosca

Work length14:37

Ljuba Welitsch, Richard Tucker
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Max Rudolf

Love Duet (Recorded 1950)

Track length11:39

Vissi d'arte (Recorded 1950)

Track length2:58

Strauss, R: Salome, Op. 54: Final Scene (Recorded 1950)

Work length16:30

Ljuba Welitsch
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Fritz Reiner

Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus: Czárdás, Klänge der Heimat (Recorded 1950)

Work length4:13

Ljuba Welitsch
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Max Rudolf

Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe: Viljalied (Recorded 1950)

Work length4:52

Ljuba Welitsch
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Rudolf Moralt

Lehár: Zigeunerliebe: Lied und Czardas (Recorded 1950)

Work length4:12

Ljuba Welitsch
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Rudolf Moralt

Theo Makeben: The Dubarry: Ich schenk' mein Herz (after Karl Millocker) (Recorded 1950)

Work length3:05

Ljuba Welitsch
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Rudolf Moralt

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Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano. She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936. Engagements followed in Graz, Hamburg, Munich and finally at the Vienna State Opera. Known for her red hair and exuberant vivacity, her most famous role was that of Salome, which she performed under the composer, Richard Strauss, himself in 1944 on his 80th birthday. She sang the same role for her London debut in 1947 and her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York on 4 February 1949.

In this compilation Prima Voce have carefully chosen recordings of music covering a number of roles which Viennese, British and American fans in particular associated her with. In two extracts from Mozart’s Don Giovanni as Donna Anna, a role which introduced her to British audiences, from the opening recitative of ‘Or sai chi l’onore’, here ably assisted by the veteran Metropolitan Opera comprimario tenor Alessio de Paolis, one is struck by her brilliant yet beautiful tone and her attack on the high notes in the aria proper.

Ljuba Welitsch

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