Opera/Operetta > Greindl, Josef

Deutsche Oper Berlin: 100 Years, 1912-2012 / Live recordings from the 1960s, treasures in black & white / Ludwig, Tebaldi, Grummer, Fischer-Dieskau et al. [6 DVD]

6 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2012-11-13

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Don Carlos; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
Performers: Beirer, Hans; Berry, Walter; Dooley, James; Dooley, William; Ferr, Mario; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Grobe, Donald; Grummer, Elisabeth; Johnson, Patricia; King, James; Koth, Erika; Lo...
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc; Patané, Giuseppe; Rother, Artur; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra

For its 100th anniversary the Deutsche Oper Berlin presents a special edition of live recordings. This special edition box contains the live recordings from the...continue...
Run Time: 729 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, B&W
Sound Format(s): PCM Mono,
Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian
Country of Orig...continue...

Cimarosa: The Secret Marriage / Maazel, Greindl, Koth, Otto, Johnson [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2012-05-29

Works: Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Grobe, Donald; Johnson, Patricia; Koth, Erika; McDaniel, Barry; Otto, Lisa
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra

Staged by Gustav Rudolf Sellner, conducted by Lorin Maazel , with costumes by Filippo Sanjust and performed by the six soloists with consummate vocal elegance,...continue...
Run Time: 123 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, B&W
Sound Format(s): LPCM Mono,
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
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Martha Mödl: The Portrait of a Legend / Wagner, Strauss, Fortner, Reimann

2 CD / Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler / 2012-04-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Rienzi; Tristan und Isolde; Wesendonck Lieder; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Richard Strauss: Elektra; Wolfgang Fortner: Bluthochzeit; Aribert Reimann: Melusine; Pyotr ...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hoffmann, Grace; Mödl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Raucheisen, Michael; Ronisch, Rosemarie; Rose, Elisabeth; Steger, Ingrid; Suthaus, Ludwig; Topper, Hertha; Wi...
Conductors: Hollreiser, Heinrich; Keilberth, Joseph; Leitner, Ferdinand; Sebastian, Georges; Suitner, Otmar; Peters, Reinhard; Bareza, Niksa

Never released before recordings from 1950 - 1982 Wilhelm Furtwängler aptly referred to her as a "magic box", because her voice changed with every character...continue...

The Hero of New Beyreuth / Wolfgang Windgassen, tenor (rec. 1950 - 1958)

4 CD / Red/membran / 2011-11-21

Works: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz (The Marksman); Eugen d'Albert: Tiefland (Lowlands); Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman); Rienzi; Die Meistersinger von Nü...
Performers: Czubok, Engelbert; Fischer, Res; Greindl, Josef; Hann, Georg; Hoffmann, Grace; Kuen, Paul; Kupper, Annelies; Modl, Martha; Muller, Maria; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astri...
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Wetzelsberger, Bertil; Fricsay, Ferenc; Leitner, Ferdinand; Rischner, Alfons; Ludwig, Leopold; Jochum, Eugen; Kraus, Richard; Keilberth, Joseph; Weigert, Hermann; Sawallisch, Wolfgang;...
Ensemble: ; Billiards Quintet

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Fricsay, Fischer-Dieskau, Grummer [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2011-09-27

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527
Performers: Berry, Walter; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Grobe, Donald; Grummer, Elisabeth; Koth, Erika; Lorengar, Pilar; Sardi, Ivan
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra

Available now, for the first time on DVD, is the inaugural performance of Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Mozart's popular story of the...continue...
Run Time: 176 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, B&W
Sound Format(s): LPCM Mono,
Subtitles: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Korean...continue...

Bass baritone Gustav Neidlinger

1 CD / Preiser / 2011-02-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe; Don Giovanni; Giuseppe Verdi: Die Macht des Schicksals; Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; Siegfried; Gött...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schock, Rudolf [Tenor Vocal]; Wagner, Sieglinde
Conductors: Reinhardt, Rolf; Ludwig, Leopold; Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Kempe, Rudolf; Krauss, Clemens; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Schuchter, Gilbert

Born in Mainz, Neidlinger sang at the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Staatstheater in Stuttgart. He sang 20 seasons at the Bayreuth Festival and for 25...continue...

A Portrait of Hermann Uhde

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Alban Berg: Wozzeck; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72...
Performers: Casa, Lisa della; Gehl, Hans [Piano]; Greindl, Josef; Hines, Jerome [Bass Vocal]; Rossel-Majdan, Hilde; Steber, Eleanor; Uhde, Hermann; Vocals], Christel Goltz [Soprano
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Eckner, H.; Cleva, Fausto; Kempe, Rudolf; Böhm, Karl; Hollreiser, Heinrich

Der Ring des Nibelungen [Bayreuth 1953]

14 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Falcon, Bruni; Friedland, Brunnhild; Greindl, Josef; Hinsch-Grondahl, Natalie; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Litz, Gisela; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Plate, ...
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

R. Strauss: Daphne

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Strauss: Daphne, Op 82; Lieder (5), Op. 32; Songs (4) for Voice and Orchestra, Op. 33; Winterliebe ("Der Sonne entgeten in Liebesgluten"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 48/5; Lie...
Performers: Anders, Peter; Bischof, Lisa; Cunitz, Maud; Fehenberger, Lorenz; Fiedler, Hans Herbert; Fischer, Res; Giesen, Hubert; Greindl, Josef; Luhr, Ernst Max; Maas, Käthe; Marschner, Kurt; Neidlinger, G...
Conductors: Gruber, Arthur; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Lutze, Walter; Rother, Artur

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

4 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hinsch-Grondahl, Natalie; Ilosvay, Maria von; Litz, Gisela; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Plumacher, Hetty; Resnik, Regina; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Windg...
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Wagner: Das Rheingold

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Falcon, Bruni; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Litz, Gisela; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Plumacher, Hetty; Stolze, Gerhard; Uhde, Hermann; Weber...
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Wagner: Die Walküre

4 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Falcon, Bruni; Friedland, Brunnhild; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Litz, Gisela; Malaniuk, Ira; Plate, Sibylla; Resnik, Regina; Schubert, Erica; Sorrell, Lise; Thomamuller, Liesel...
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Gluck: Iphigénie in Aulis

2 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Blatter, Johanna; Clam, Leopold; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Krebs, Helmut; Musial, Martha; Reith, Maria; Suthaus, Ludwig
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Buschkötter, Wilhelm; Gaebel, Kurt; Walter, Fried; Ludwig, Leopold

Wagner: Siegfried

4 CD / Gall Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Streich, Rita; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens

Lebendige Vergangenheit: Jaro Prohaska

1 CD / Preiser / 2009-12-08

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Performers: Anders, Peter; Greindl, Josef; Hoffmann, Ludwig; Klose, Margarete; Lorenz, Max; Muller, Anneliese; Muller, Maria; Prohaska, Jaro; Soot, Fritz; Suthaus, Ludwig; Zimmermann, Erich
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Heger, Robert; Furtwängler, Wilhelm

One of the most outstanding bass-baritones between 1920 and 1950 was Jaro Prohaska. For 12 years he was among the leading performers at the Bayreuth...continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre (1955), etc / Martha Mödl, Astrid Varnay, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2009-10-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Tannhäuser
Performers: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Lammers, Gerda; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Modl, Martha; Schartel, Elisabeth; Scheppan, Hilde;...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph

The release of Joseph Keilberth’s legendary stereo recordings of the first cycle of the 1955 Ring at Bayreuth brought Testament worldwide acclaim. Partly for recording...continue...

Wagner: Das Rheingold / Joseph Keilberth, et al

2 CD / Myto Records Import / 2009-09-08

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Borkh, Inge; Bugarinovic, Melanie; Faulhaber, Werner; Greindl, Josef; Kuen, Paul; Ludwig, Hanna; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Topper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Weber, Ludwig [Bas...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner: Die Walküre / Joseph Keilberth, et al

3 CD / Myto Records Import / 2009-09-08

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Borkh, Inge; Brivkalne, Paula; Bugarinovic, Melanie; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ludwig, Hanna; Meining, Irmgard; Roesler, Trude; Siewert, Ruth; Thomamuller, Lieselotte; Topper, Hertha; Treptow, Gu...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Joseph Keilberth, et al

4 CD / Myto Records Import / 2009-09-08

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Bugarinovic, Melanie; Greindl, Josef; Lorenz, Max; Ludwig, Hanna; Modl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Siewert, Ruth; Topper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Zimmermann, Erika
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Brilliant Opera Collection - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Furtwängler, Flagstad, et al

4 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2009-07-14

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Performers: Davies, Rhydderch; Evans, Edgar; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Flagstad, Kirsten; Greindl, Josef; Schock, Rudolf; Suthaus, Ludwig; Thebom, Blanche
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

This first recording made by EMI in 1952 for the new LP format and produced by the legendary Walter Legge was the first major recording...continue...

Historical - Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Keilberth, Varnay, Mödl, Lorenz

4 CD / Myto Records / 2009-06-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Bugarinovic, Melanija; Greindl, Josef; Lorenz, Max; Ludwig, Hanna; Mödl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav; Siewert, Ruth; Töpper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Varnay, Astrid; Zimmermann, Erika
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

HIstorical - Wagner: Das Rheingold / Keilberth, Uhde, Malaniuk, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 2009-06-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Borkh, Inge; Bugarinovic, Melanija; Faulhaber, Werner; Greindl, Josef; Kuen, Paul; Ludwig, Hanna; Malaniuk, Ira; Neidlinger, Gustav; Töpper, Hertha; Uhde, Hermann; Weber, Ludwig; Windgassen, Wol...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Historical - Wagner: Die Walküre / Keilberth, Hotter, Varnay, et al

3 CD / Myto Records / 2009-06-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Borkh, Inge; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Malaniuk, Ira; Treptow, Günther; Varnay, Astrid
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

The Record of Singing Vol 5 - From the LP to the Digital Era

10 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Walküre; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tristan und Isolde; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Ar...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Allen, Thomas; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Ameling, Elly [Soprano Vocals]; Ameling, Elly [Soprano Vocal]; Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Andre, Maurice; An...
Conductors: Ludwig, Leopold; Konwitschny, Franz; Dobroven, Issay; Weigert, Herman; Prêtre, Georges; Cluytens, André; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Karajan, Herbert von; Kempe, Rudolf; Susskind, Walter; Bl...
Ensemble: ; Collegium Vocale (Ghent); Consort of Musicke; Ensemble Artaserse; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; Fretwork; Hespèrion XX ; Il Complesso Barocco; Il Seminario Musicale; La Grande Écurie et ...

EMI Classics is proud to present two 10-CD boxed sets of 'The Record of Singing'. Together this collection offers a breath-taking overview of the past...continue...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Keilberth, Mödl, Windgassen, Greindl, Hotter, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2009-02-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Modl, Martha; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel, Elisabeth; Va...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Testament's highly acclaimed release of the legendary 1955 stereo recordings of the Ring made by Decca at Bayreuth featured the first of two cycles of...continue...

Edition Ferenc Fricsay Vol 8 - Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail K 384

2 CD / Audite / 2008-10-29

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384
Performers: Barabas, Sari; Dermota, Anton; Greindl, Josef; Krebs, Helmut; Streich, Rita
Conductors: ; Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus; Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra

Ferenc Fricsay's first complete recording of an opera by Mozart was made in December 1949. The recording reveals the characteristics of Fricsay's Mozart interpretation with...continue...

Ultimate Wagner - Essential Masterpieces

5 CD / Decca / 2008-08-26

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Parsifal
Performers: Adam, Theo; Bode, Hannelore; Browner, Alison; Burmeister, Annelies; Cervena, Sona; Cox, Jean; Dene, Jozsef; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Esser, Hermin; Estes, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Greindl, Jos...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Solti, Sir Georg; Varviso, Silvio; Levine, James
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven: Fidelio / Böhm/Deutsche Opera Berlin, Jones, King, Neidlinger [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2008-08-12

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Jones, Gwyneth, Dame; King, James [Classical]; Miljakovic, Olivera; Neidlinger, Gustav; Talvela, Martti
Conductors: Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 1970, German television took Fidelio into the studio and filmed the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s production of...continue...
Run Time: 112 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanis...continue...

Flotow: Martha / Schüler, Berger, Tergetthoff, Anders, et al

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Friedrich von Flotow: Martha
Performers: Anders, Peter; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Fuchs, Eugen; Greindl, Josef; Sauer, Franz; Tegetthoff, Else
Conductors: Schuler, Johannes

Verdi: Rigoletto / Heger, Rosvaenge, Schlusnus, et al

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Performers: Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Booth, Margary; Fuchs, Eugen; Greindl, Josef; Hann, Georg; Harmsen, Gerit; Jacobs, Ilse; Rosvaenge, Helge; Schlusnus, Heinrich; Weigelt, Ruth; Zimmermann, Erich
Conductors: Heger, Robert
Ensemble: Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra

This exceptional historic performance is presented as part of Berlin Classic's Eterna Collection of fine operas. Although appearing several times over the years on CD,...continue...

Eterna Collection - Grosse Sänger der Vergangenheit / Ludwig

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; François-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche; Friedrich von Flotow: Alessandro...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Ludwig, Walther; Schmitt-Walter, Karl
Conductors: Rother, Artur; Stein, Horst; Leitner, Ferdinand; Steinkopf, Hans; Lehmann, Fritz
Ensemble: ; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Stuttgart State Orchestra

Walther Ludwig was born the son of a businessman in Bad Oeynhausen and was initially studying medicine when, just for fun, sang for a friend...continue...

Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival / Sawallisch, Nilsson, Rysanek, Silja, et al

33 CD / Decca / 2008-06-17

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Parsif...
Performers: Adam, Theo; Appel, Wolfgang; Bauer, Hartmut; Bode, Hannelore; Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Browner, Alison; Bumbry, Grace; Burmeister, Annelies; Cervena, Sona; Cox, Jean; Crass, Franz; Dene, Jozsef; Der...
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Böhm, Karl; Varviso, Silvio; Levine, James
Ensemble: ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

A special, limited edition 33-CD box set containing all of Wagner's operas from 'The Flying Dutchman' (1841) to his final masterpiece 'Parsifal' (1882) in performances...continue...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Keilberth, et al

14 CD / Testament / 2008-02-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Bolotine, Mina; Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lustig, Rudolf; Milinko...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Testament is proud to present the first-ever stereo recording of the 'Ring' cycle featuring definitive performances by Wolfgang Windgassen as Siegfried, Hans Hotter as Wotan,...continue...

Mozart, Beethoven, Humperdinck: Operas / Schwarzkopf, et al

14 CD / Bravissimo / 2007-10-16

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan t...
Performers: Adani, Mariella; Alsen, Herbert; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Braun, Hans; Calabrese, Franco; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Flagstad, Kirsten; Gobbi, Tito; Greindl, Josef; Jurinac, Sena; Klein, Peter...
Conductors: Moralt, Rudolf; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Karajan, Herbert von; Cantelli, Guido

Six complete operas starring the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at budget price in one space-saving set, featuring a twenty-four-page booklet with biographies, detailed listings, and historic...continue...

German Opera Masterworks - Bethoven: Fidelio, etc

14 CD / Bravissimo / 2007-10-16

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384; Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, J 277; ...
Performers: Alsen, Herbert; Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Brendel, Wolfgang; Carral, Dora; Chiappi, Mario; Cotrubas, Ileana; Crass, Franz; Czerwenka, Oskar; Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Donch, Karl; Dunn, Mignon; ...
Conductors: Moralt, Rudolf; Böhm, Karl; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Prêtre, Georges

Exciting live recordings taped 1945–1972 featuring the greatest operas from Mozart to Strauss. It was Mozart who first established a viable, lasting school of German...continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre / Knappertsbusch, Varnay, et al

3 CD / Urania (Italy) / 2007-03-07

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Bader, Helena; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Lammers, Gerda; Lenchner, Paula; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Nilsson, Birgit; Plümacher, Hetty; Schärtel, Elisabeth; Scheppan,...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

This live performance, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957, is one of the most powerful and dramatic interretations of Die Walkure ever performed. In...continue...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Keilberth, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2007-02-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Bolotine, Mina; Brouwenstijn, Gré; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Ilosvay, Maria von; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel, Elisabeth; Uhde, H...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"So the great project reaches its glorious close, as magnificently conducted, played, and sung as the rest of this revelatory Ring. One wonders anew at...continue...

Wagner: Das Rheingold / Keilberth, Hotter, Lustig, et al

2 CD / Testament / 2006-12-12

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Lustig, Rudolf; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Schartel,...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

"It turns out that the landmark account of Wagner's "Ring" with Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, begun in 1958, was not the first stereo...continue...

Berg: Lulu, Wozzeck / Karl Böhm, Lear, Fischer-Dieskau

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-09-12

Works: Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera, Op. 7; Lulu, opera; Lulu-Suite, 5 symphonic pieces from the opera for soprano & orchestra ("Lulu-Symphonie")
Performers: Bohme, Kurt [Bass Vocal]; Clam, Leopold; Dicks, William Walther; Driscoll, Loren; Feldhoff, Gerd; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Grobe, Donald; Johnson, Patricia [vocals]; Koffmane, Rober...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra

Though initially believed to be very risky undertakings, these classic recordings of Wozzeck and Lulu and have been staples in Deutsche Grammophon's catalogue ever since...continue...

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman / Sawallisch, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-08-22

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Fischer, Res; Greindl, Josef; London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Paskuda, Georg; Rysanek, Leonie; Uhl, Fritz
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Wagner's early masterpiece is heard in an authoritative, truly classic performance from the composer's own theater in Bayreuth, Germany, the shrine and Mecca of the...continue...

Wagner: Opera Choruses

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-13

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Schartel, Elisabeth
Conductors: Pitz, Wilhelm

Collection Du Millenaire....continue...

Wagner: Die Walkure - Highlights / Greindl, Nilsson, et al

1 CD / Preiser / 2006-07-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans; Rieger, Fritz

Set Svanholm, who, after a six-year career as baritone, switched to tenor in 1936 and who by 1937 was successfully appearing internationally as Siegmund, established...continue...

Wagner: Die Walküre / Keilberth, Varnay, Brouwenstijn, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2006-06-13

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Graf, Maria [Mezzo-soprano]; Greindl, Josef; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Lammers, Gerda; Milinkovic, Georgine von; Schartel, Elisabeth; Scheppan, Hilde; Varnay, Astrid; Vinay...
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

"This is the second release in the much-awaited, almost legendary "missing" Ring from 1955 that was professionally recorded live at Bayreuth and then dumped because...continue...

Wagner: Siegfried / Joseph Keilberth, et al

4 CD / Testament / 2006-04-11

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kuen, Paul; Neidlinger, Gustav [Baritone Vocals]; Varnay, Astrid; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"Magnificent is the only word for it and the stereo definition is more vivid than one dared to expect. This is team-work on an exalted...continue...

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman / Sawallisch, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-03-14

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Fischer, Res; Greindl, Josef; London, George [Baritone Vocal]; Paskuda, Georg; Rysanek, Leonie; Uhl, Fritz
Conductors: Sawallisch, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Wagner's early masterpiece is heard in an authoritative, truly classic performance from the composer's own theater in Bayreuth, Germany, the shrine and Mecca of the...continue...

Verdi: Otello / Furtwängler, Vinay, Martinis, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-12-06

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Performers: Dermota, Anton [Tenor Vocals]; Greindl, Josef; Jaresch, August; Martinis, Dragica; Monthy, Georg; Vinay, Ramon; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Baritone; Wagner, Sieglinde
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm

Chilean singer Ramon Vinay is little remembered today because of the rarity of his recordings, but he is considered by many to be the greatest...continue...

Wagner: Tannhauser / Keilberth, Vinay

3 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-12-06

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Performers: Blankenheim, Toni; Brouwenstijn, Gre; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Greindl, Josef; Horn, Volker; Traxel, Josef; Vinay, Ramon; Wilfert, Herta
Conductors: Keilberth, Joseph
Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

"If you're lucky, you might find a copy of the 1954 Bayreuth performance, conducted by Keilberth, with a revelatory cast headed by the Chilean bari-tenor...continue...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set]

13 CD / Orfeo / 2005-07-28

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Greindl, Josef; Herwig, Alfons; Hollweg, Ilse; Hotter, Hans; Ilosvay, Maria von; Kamps, Luise Charlotte; Kuen, Paul; Lammers, Gerda; Lenchner, Paula; Madeira, Jean; Milinkovic, Geo...
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

3 CD / Orfeo / 2005-07-11

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620
Performers: Batic, Polly; Boesch, Ruthilde; Donch, Karl; Gallos, Hermann; Greindl, Josef; Grob-Prandl, Gertrud; Hongen, Elisabeth; Klein, Peter; Lipp, Wilma; Ludwig, Walther; Oravez, Edith; Rutgers, Elisabeth; S...
Conductors: Furtwängler, Wilhelm

Paperback Opera - Wagner: Flying Dutchman / Fricsay, et al

2 CD / Preiser / 2005-03-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Kupper, Annelies; Metternich, Josef; Vocals], Ernst Haefliger [Tenor; Windgassen, Wolfgang [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Fricsay, Ferenc
Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus