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GiuseppeVERDI: Aida (Incomplete performance: Act 1 Scene 1 notrecorded) Recorded on February 12th 1956.(1)
RichardWAGNER: Lohengrin (Prelude, wedding chorus & bridalchamber scene from Act 3) Recorded on August 26th/September 1st1952.(2) Parsifal (Fragment of Act 1)Recorded on March 22nd 1959.(3)
(1) Birgit Nilsson (Aida), Elisabeth Söderström (Priestess), Sigurd Björling (Amonasro), Leon Björker (The King), Brita Hertzberg (Amneris), Set Svanholm (Radames), Sven Nilsson (Ramfis)
(2) Brita Hertzberg (Elsa), Set Svanholm (Lohengrin), Kerstin Löfgren, Elisabeth Söderström or AstridOhlson, Ingeborg Kjellgren, Kerstin Meyer (Four Esquires)
(3) Einar Beyron (Parsifal), Joel Berglund (Gurnemanz), Margareta Bergström (Kundry)
all with RoyalSwedish Opera Chorus & Orchestra cond. (1, 3) Sixten Ehrling, (2) Nils Grevillius.
Volume 4of CAPRICE's series of unpublished 'live' recordings from the archives of theRoyal Swedish Opera is a 2-CD set designed to showcase the art of BritaHertzberg, a house stalwart who left few commercial recordings and rarelyappeared outside Sweden. Here, shesings Amneris in an almost complete 'Aida' (the first scene is lost) and Elsain extracts from 'Lohengrin'., while her husband Einar Beyron features in ashort scene from Parsifal, and many world-famous singers appear in the castlists (see above). |
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Discovery catalogue available for
Verdi / Wagner
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Royal Swedish Opera Archives Vol. 4 (2CD)
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