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Waldemar Kmentt: Portrait

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Waldemar Kmentt: Portrait

Our Price: £10.95

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents
Mozart: Idomeneo: Qual mi conturba i sensi - Fuor del mar
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte: Nein! Nein! Dorabella vermochte das nie, Seinen Armen eil’ ich entgegen
Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris: Nur einen Wunsch, nur ein Verlangen
Beethoven: Fidelio: Jetzt Schatzchen, jetzt sind wir allein
Rossini: La Cenerentola: Holdes, geliebtes Zeichen
Gounod: Faust: Quel trouble inconnu - Salut! demeure chaste et pure, Il se fait tard
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffman: Ja, vom Kleinzack! Es war einmal am Hofe, Sie wollen geh’n - Hab’ alles verspielt
Smetana: Bartered Bride: Wart’ nur, wart’! - Wie war’s denn moglich
Janacek: Jenufa: Siehst du, Laca
Stravinsky: Rake’s Progress: Mach doch dein Lied, o London, neu
R Strauss: Ariadne: Mein Herr Haushofmeister!
R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Di rigori armato il seno
Artists
Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Hilde Guden, Walter Berry, Karl Donch, Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Hermann Uhde, Anja Silja, Kurt Equiluz, Sena Jurinac, Peter Weber, Chorus & Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper

Conductors: Jaroslav Krombholc, Karl Bohm, Horst Stein, Alberto Erede, Georges Pretre, Josef Krips, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Danon
In 1955, Waldemar Kmentt sang Jaquino in Beethoven's 'Fidelio' for the reopening of the Vienna State Opera, and from then until the turn of the century performed internationally in roles such as Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow. During all this time, the tenor gave countless dazzling performances on the world's greatest opera stages.

This portrait, in honour of his 80th birthday, is an impressive reflection of his versatility, with excerpts from roles he performed at the Vienna State Opera, where he was based and where he received the title of 'Kammersänger' and was eventually made an honorary member. The flexibility and brilliant timbre of his voice brought him many roles at the State Opera, both in the legendary Mozart Ensemble under Karl Böhm and as an 'Italian' tenor (though, as usual at that time, mostly in German).

A brilliant rendering of the Italian tenor’s aria from Der Rosenkavalier in 1968 under Leonard Bernstein concludes this cross-section of the prodigious career of a tenor who, ever modest, never relied on mere showmanship.

Live Recordings - Vienna State Opera 1955, 1996.
Composers on this disc include....

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