The Great Operas

Artists

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Release Date: 2012

Label: EMI Classics

Rienzi
René Kollo (Cola Rienzi), Siv Wennberg (Irene), Nikolaus Hillebrand (Steffano Colonna) & Janis Martin (Adriano Colonna)
Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Heinrich Hollreiser

Der fliegende Holländer
Theo Adam (Dutchman), Anja Silja (Senta) & Martti Talvela (Daland)
BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

Tannhäuser
Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram von Eschenbach) & Waltraud Meier (Venus)
Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Bernard Haitink

Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grummer (Elsa of Brabant), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud) & Fischer-Dieskau (Friedrich von Telramund)
Choir of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe

Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper - Wolfgang Sawallisch
Recording: 1989
Vorabend: Das Rheingold
Robert Hale (bass-baritone) [Wotan]
Marjana Lipovšek (mezzo-soprano) [Fricka]
Robert Tear (tenor)
Ekkehard Wlaschiha (baritone)
Helmut Pampuch (tenor)
Florian Cerny (baritone) [Donner]
Josef Hopperwieser (tenor) [Froh]
Nancy Gustafson (soprano) [Freia]
Hanna Schwarz ( mezzo-soprano) [Erda]
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass-baritone) [Fasolt]
Kurt Moll (bass) [Fafner]
Julie Kaufmann (soprano) [Woglinde]
Angela Maria Blasi (soprano) [Wellgunde]
Birgit Calm (contralto) [Folßhilde]

1. Tag: Die Walküre
Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Brünnhilde]
Robert Hale (bass-baritone) [Wotan]
Julia Varady (soprano) [Sieglinde ]
Robert Schunk (tenor) [Siegmund]
Kurt Moll (bass) [Hunding]
Marjana Lipovšek (mezzo-soprano) [Fricka]
Andrea Trauboth (soprano) [Gerhilde]
Nancy Gustafson (soprano) [Helmwige]
Cornelia Wulkopf (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute]
Anne Pellekoorne (contralto) [Schwertleite]
Christel Borchers (mezzo-soprano) [Siegrune]
Marianne Seibel (soprano) [Ortlinde]
Birgit Calm (contralto) [Grimgerde]
Gudrun Wewezow (mezzo-soprano)

2. Tag: Siegfried
René Kollo (tenor) [Siegfried]
Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Brünnhilde]
Robert Hale (bass-baritone) [Wotan]
Helmut Pampuch (tenor)
Ekkehard Wlaschiha (baritone)
Kurt Moll (bass) [Fafner]
Hanna Schwarz ( mezzo-soprano) [Erda]
Julie Kaufmann (soprano) [Waldvogel]

3. Tag: Götterdämmerung
Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Brünnhilde]
René Kollo (tenor) [Siegfried]
Matti Salminen (bass) [Hagen]
Hans Günter Nöcker (baritone) [Gunther]
Lisbeth Balslev (soprano) [Gutrune]
Waltraut Meier (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute]
Ekkehard Wlaschiha (baritone)
Marjana Lipovšek (contralto) [1. Norn]
Ingrid Karrasch (mezzo-soprano) [2. Norn]
Penelope Thorn (soprano) [3. Norn]
Julie Kaufmann (soprano) [Woglinde]
Angela Maria Blasi (soprano) [Wellgunde]
Birgit Calm (contralto) [Folßhilde]

Tristan und Isolde
Plácido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimara (Brangaene) & René Pape (King brand)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Theo Adam (Hans Sachs), Geraint Evans (Sixtus Beckmesser), René Kollo (Walther von Stolzing), Peter Schreier (David) & Helen Donath (Eva)
Choir of the State Opera in Dresden & Choir of the Leipzig Radio Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert von Karajan

Parsifal
Donald McIntyre (Gurnemanz), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Phillip Joll (Amfortas) & Warren Ellsworth (Parsifal)
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Reginald Goodall

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