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Sydney Opera House: Opening Concert 1973 | ABC Classics ABC4766440

Sydney Opera House: Opening Concert 1973

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Label: ABC Classics

Cat No: ABC4766440

Barcode: 0028947664406

Format: CD + DVD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 10th November 2008

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Contents

Works

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude
Gotterdammerung
» Brunnhilde's Immolation
» Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3)
» Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Tannhauser
» Dich, teure Halle
Tristan und Isolde
» Prelude and Liebestod

Artists

Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

Works

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
» Prelude
Gotterdammerung
» Brunnhilde's Immolation
» Siegfried's Funeral March (Act 3)
» Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Tannhauser
» Dich, teure Halle
Tristan und Isolde
» Prelude and Liebestod

Artists

Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

About

Australia’s musical landscape changed forever on the evening of 29 September 1973 when the brand new Sydney Opera House opened the doors of its Concert Hall to the public for the first time. In front of a packed, emotion-charged house, the great Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras made a triumphant homecoming in an all-Wagner concert.

Now, for the first time, ABC Classics is proud to release the entire concert on CD, featuring the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the 20th century, Birgit Nilsson, as soloist.

Included in this Australian Masters package is a bonus DVD featuring television footage of the concert’s second half. A memento of one of the greatest days in Australian music, it captures two master artists at the height of their creative powers, with an orchestra playing at its peak.

“,,,,when she comes to the final scene of Götterdämmerung she gives everything, and anyone who heard her in
the flesh knows what an immense amount that was…. Meanwhile Mackerras has shown himself an expert
Wagner conductor, with an exhilarating Rhine journey and a lacerating, noble and in the end triumphant
Funeral Music. Sound is excellent, both on the CD and the black-and-white DVD.”
BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 – BBC Music Choice - ***** Performance

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