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Beethoven - Fidelio | Music and Arts WHRA6008

Beethoven - Fidelio

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Label: Music and Arts

Cat No: WHRA6008

Barcode: 4015023160088

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st October 2006

Contents

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore)
René Maison (Florestan)
Julius Huehn (Don Pizarro)
Alexander Kipnis (Rocco)
Marita Farell (Marzelline)
Karl Laufkoetter (Jaquino)
Herbert Janssen (Don Fernando)
Set Svanholm
Paul Schöffler
Dezsö Ernster
Nadine Conner
Peter Klein
Jerome Hines

Conductor

Bruno Walter (Metropolitan Opera)

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Fidelio, op.72

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore)
René Maison (Florestan)
Julius Huehn (Don Pizarro)
Alexander Kipnis (Rocco)
Marita Farell (Marzelline)
Karl Laufkoetter (Jaquino)
Herbert Janssen (Don Fernando)
Set Svanholm
Paul Schöffler
Dezsö Ernster
Nadine Conner
Peter Klein
Jerome Hines

Conductor

Bruno Walter (Metropolitan Opera)

About

Two legendary performances from the New York Met, now digitally refurbished and featuring Kirsten Flagstad and Bruno Walter. The first in 1941, only Walter’s second performance ever at the Met, seems at times a one man war on the forces of evil which had sent him packing from Berlin, Vienna and Paris.The second marks Walter’s return to the Met in 1951, after a five-year absence in Rudolf Bing’s first season as general manager, and also Flagstad’s controversial return after spending the war years in Norway.

Casts:
February 22, 1941 broadcast:
- Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore)
- René Maison (Florestan)
- Julius Huehn (Don Pizarro)
- Alexander Kipnis (Rocco)
- Marita Farell (Marzelline)
- Karl Laufkoetter (Jaquino)
- Herbert Janssen (Don Fernando)

March 10, 1951 matinee broadcast:
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Set Svanholm
- Paul Schöffler
- Dezsö Ernster
- Nadine Conner
- Peter Klein
- Jerome Hines

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