Da Capo: Opera Highlights

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Album Summary

Performers

• Armin Ude (Tenor)
• Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
• Siegfried Lorenz (Baritone)
• Sona Cervana (Voice)
• Hermann Prey (Voice)
• Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Andreas Scheibner (Bass)
• Martin Ritzmann (Tenor)
• Anton Ridder (Voice)
• Theo Adam (Bass)
• Elisabeth Breul (Soprano)
• Lisa Casa (Voice)
• Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
• Harald Neukirch (Tenor)
• Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (Soprano)
• Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Alto)
• Peter-Jurgen Schmidt (Voice)
• Hanne-Lore Kuhse (Voice)
• Hilde Güden (Voice)

Conductors

• Fricke, Heinz
• Hanell, Robert
• Kegel, Herbert
• Klee, Bernhard
• Kleinert, Rolf
• Kurz, Siegfried
• Masur, Kurt
• Neuhaus, Rudolf
• Neumann, Vaclav
• Patane, Giuseppe
• Suitner, Otmar
• Vonk, Hans
• Winkler, Johannes

Ensemble

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Composers

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (Classical) (1854 - 1921)
• Otto Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)
• Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
• Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860 - 1945)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)

Notes & Reviews:

Overtures, arias, and choruses: a medley of melodies that every opera lover knows!

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Nicolai, Otto : Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor :: Overture

• Conductor: Bernhard Klee
• Notes: Composition written: 1849.
• Running Time: 8 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1849

Wagner, Richard : The Flying Dutchman :: Summ und brumm, du gutes Rädchen

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Notes: Composition written: 1841.
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1841

Donizetti, Gaetano : L' elisir d'amore, opera :: Una furtiva lagrima

• Performer: Armin Ude (Tenor)
• Conductor: Hans Vonk
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1832

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orfeo ed Euridice :: Che faro senza Euridice

• Performer: Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Václav Neumann
• Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Mascagni, Pietro : Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act :: Ah! Gli arancio lezzano

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 7 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Wie Todesahnung - Oh du mein holder Abendstern

• Performer: Siegfried Lorenz (Baritone)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 5 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1843-1865

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Ja, die Liebe hat bunte Flügel

• Performer: Sona Cervana (Voice)
• Conductor: Herbert Kegel
• Running Time: 3 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Fin ch'han dal vino

• Performer: Hermann Prey (Voice)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 1 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von : Donna Diana, overture to the opera

• Conductor: Herbert Kegel
• Running Time: 4 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral

Rossini, Gioachino : Il Barbiere di Siviglia :: Largo al factotum

• Performer: Siegfried Lorenz (Baritone)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 5 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1816

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Freudig begrüáen wir die edle Halle

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 6 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1843-1865

Gounod, Charles : Margarete :: Il était un roi de Thulé - Ah! Je ris de me voir

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 8 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859

Bizet, Georges : Les Pecheurs des Perles :: Au fond du temple saint

• Performers: Armin Ude (Tenor); Andreas Scheibner (Bass)
• Conductor: Hans Vonk
• Running Time: 6 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1863

Puccini, Giacomo : Turandot :: Nessun dorma ("Keiner schlafe")

• Performer: Martin Ritzmann (Tenor)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Notes: Composition written: 1926.
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1926

Verdi, Giuseppe : Nabucco :: Va pensiero, sull' ali dorate

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 4 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1842

Smetana, Bedrich : Die verkaufte Braut :: Overture

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 6 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1863-1870

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: La donna è mobile

• Performer: Anton Ridder (Voice)
• Conductor: Robert Hanell
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1851

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le Nozze di Figaro :: Deh vieni, non tardar (O säume länger nicht) (Rosenarie)

• Performer: Hilde Güden (Voice)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Nicolai, Otto : Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor :: O süáer Mond (Mondchor)

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Notes: Composition written: 1849.
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1849

Wagner, Richard : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg :: Wie duftet doch der Flieder (Fleidermonolog des Sachs)

• Performer: Theo Adam (Bass)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 6 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1862-1867

Puccini, Giacomo : Turandot :: Signore ascolta

• Performer: Elisabeth Breul (Soprano)
• Conductor: Rolf Kleinert
• Notes: Composition written: 1926.
• Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1926

Strauss, Richard : Der Rosenkavalier :: Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (Überreichung der silbernen)

• Performers: Lisa Casa (Voice); Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
• Conductor: Rudolf Neuhaus
• Running Time: 11 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1909-1910

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Treulich geführt (Brautchor)

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le Nozze di Figaro :: Non piu andrai

• Performer: Hermann Prey (Voice)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Rossini, Gioachino : Il Barbiere di Siviglia :: Overture

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 7 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1816

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384 :: Im Mohrenland gefangen war

• Performer: Harald Neukirch (Tenor)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Notes: Composition written: 1782.
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1782

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor :: Il dolce suoco - Ardon gl'incensi (Wahnsinnszene)

• Performer: Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (Soprano)
• Conductor: Johannes Winkler
• Running Time: 16 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1835

Verdi, Giuseppe : Aida, opera :: Heil dir, Ägypten, Isis Heil (Triumphmarsch)

• Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè
• Notes: Composition written: 1871.
• Running Time: 7 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1871

Humperdinck, Engelbert : Hänsel und Gretel :: Overture

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 7 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1893

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Fidelio, Op. 72 :: O welche Lust (Gefangenenchor)

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Notes: Composition written: 1804-06.
• Running Time: 6 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1804-1806

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Dalla sua pace

• Performer: Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 5 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Wagner, Richard : Die Walküre :: Leb wohl, du schönes herrliches Kind (Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber)

• Performer: Theo Adam (Bass)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 15 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1854-1856

Verdi, Giuseppe : Un ballo in maschera :: Volta la terrea fronte alle stelle

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1859

Puccini, Giacomo : Tosca :: E lucevan

• Performer: Martin Ritzmann (Tenor)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1900

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Beglückt darf nun dich, o Heimat, ich schau'n (Pilgerchor)

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 6 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1843-1865

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Près des remparts de Séville (Seguidilla)

• Performers: Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Alto); Peter-Jurgen Schmidt (Voice)
• Conductor: Siegfried Kurz
• Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Strauss, Richard : Salome :: s Tanz

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 8 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1903-1905

Wagner, Richard : Tristan und Isolde :: Mild und leise, wie er lächelt (Isoldes Liebestod)

• Performer: Hanne-Lore Kuhse (Voice)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 7 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1857-1859

Strauss, Richard : Der Rosenkavlaier :: Ist ein Traum

• Performers: Lisa Casa (Voice); Anneliese Rothenberger (Soprano)
• Conductor: Rudolf Neuhaus
• Running Time: 7 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1909-1910