Mozart at the Salzburg Festival.
This DVD recording presents outstanding opera recordings from the Salzburg Festival of 1966, 1982 and 2003 featuring many outstanding singers.
Three of Mozarts Operas are featured. The are:
- “Die Zauberflöte” and
Let me share a few things about “Figaro”:
While this opera was premiered in Vienna in 1786, the opera was produced in Prague in December 1786, and the production was a tremendous success. Mozart became hugely popular in Prague, people were walking around whistling arias from this opera, and the production was hugely successful.
Mozart’s “Zauberflöte” was premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791, and the composer died on December 5th of that year.
The singers in each of these works are listed below:
Mozart:
Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Live Recording from The Salzburg Festival 1966
Ingvar Wixell (Il Conte di Almaviva), Claire Watson (La Contessa di Almaviva), Reri Grist (Susanna), Edith Mathis (Cherubino), Walter Berry (Figaro), David Thaw (Basilio), Zoltan Kelemen (Bartolo) & Margarethe Bence (Marcellina)
Performed by the Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper and Die Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm (conductor).
Die Zauberflöte, K620
Live Recording from From The Salzburger Festspiele, 1982
Edita Gruberova (Königin der Nacht), Peter Schreier (Tamino), Christian Boesch (Papageno), Ileana Cotrubas (Pamina), Edda Moser (Erste Dame), Ann Murray (Zweite Dame), Ingrid Mayr (Dritte Dame), Martti Talvela (Sarastro), Horst Hiestermann (Monostatos), Gudrun Sieber (Papagena)
Perfformed by the Wiener Staatsoper, conducted by James Levine.
La clemenza di Tito, K621
Live Recording from The Felsenreitschule, Salzburg Festival, 2003
Michael Schade (Tito), Vesselina Kasarova (Sesto), Dorothea Röschmann (Vitellia), Elina Garanča (Annio) & Barbara Bonney (Servilia)
Performed by the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor and the Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
Here is a video of “Figaro”, as conducted by Sir Georg Solti (all three hours of it!)
And next, let’s listen to the English version of The Magic Flute, conducted by James Levine:
http://youtu.be/Zo1rjapa0ic
Tags: Mozart, “Le Nozze di Figaro, “Die Zauberflöte”, “La Clemenza di Tito”, Salzburg Festival
