WAGNER AT THE MET: Legendary Performances from the Metropolitan Opera (25 CDs)

Description: Wagner at The Met is the first authorized release of Richard Wagner's operatic masterpieces, including the complete Ring Cycle, captured live in historic broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera. The recordings have been newly restored from the original sources and vividly display the grandeur and immediacy of these legendary, once-in-a-lifetime performances. The casts include such celebrated Wagnerians as Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior and Hans Hotter, led by iconic conductors including Fritz Reiner, George Szell and Erich Leinsdorf. The 25 CDs are packaged in minijackets in a lift-off box that includes a 128-page book with synopses and essays about each opera. Tristan und Isolde(1938)by Richard Wagner Isolde - Kirsten Flagstad sopranoTristan - Lauritz Melchior tenorBrangaene - Karin Branzell mezzo sopranoMarke - Emanuel List bassKurwenal - Julius Huehn baritoneArtur Bodanzky, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 29 January 1938 performance Tannhäuser(1954)byRichard WagnerTannhäuser - Ramon Vinay tenorElisabeth - Margaret Harshaw sopranoWolfram von Eschenbach - George London bass baritoneVenus - Astrid Varnay sopranoHermann, Landgraf von Thüringen - Jerome Hines bass Walther von der Vogelweide - Brian Sullivan tenorBiterolf - Clifford Harvuot baritoneHeinrich der Schreiber - Paul Franke tenorReinmar von Zweter - Norman Scott bassHirt - Roberta Peters sopranoGeorge Szell, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 9 January 1954 performance of the Dresden version Siegfried(1937)byRichard WagnerSiegfried - Lauritz Melchior tenorMime - Karl Laufkötter tenorBrünhilde - Kirsten Flagstad sopranoWanderer - Friedrich Schorr baritoneAlberich - Eduard Habich baritoneErda - Kerstin Thorborg contralto Fafner - Emanuel List bassWaldvogel - Stella Andreva sopranoArtur Bodanzky, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 30 January 1937 perrformance Lohengrin(1943)byRichard WagnerLohengrin - Lauritz Melchior tenorElsa - Astrid Varnay sopranoOrtrud - Kerstin Thorborg altoFriedrich von Telramund - Alexander Svéd baritoneKönig Heinrich - Norman Cordon bassDer Heerrufer des Königs - Mack Harrell baritoneErich Leinsdorf, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 2 January 1943 performance Götterdämmerung(1936)byRichard WagnerBrünnhilde - Marjorie Lawrence sopranoSiegfried - Lauritz Melchior tenorHagen - Ludwig Hofmann bassAlberich - Eduard Habich baritoneGunther - Friedrich Schorr baritoneGutrune - Dorothee Manski sopranoWaltraute - Kathryn Meisle mezzo sopranoWoglinde - Edita Fleischer sopranoWellgunde - Irra Petina contraltoFloßhilde - Doris DoeFirst Norn - Doris DoeSecond Norn - Irra PetinaThird Norn - Inge ManskiArtur Bodanzky, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 11 January 1936 performance Die Walküre(1940)byRichard WagnerBrünhilde – Kirsten Flagstad sopranoSiegmund – Lauritz Melchior tenorFricka – Karin Branzell mezzo sopranoHunding – Emanuel List bassWotan – Julius Huehn baritoneSieglinde – Marjorie Lawrence sopranoGerhilde - Thelma VotipkaOrtlinde - Maxine StellmanWaltraute - Doris DoeSchwertleite - Anna KaskasHelmwige - Dorothee ManskiSiegrune - Helen OlheimGrimgerde - Irra PetinaRoßweiße - Lucielle BrowningErich Leinsdorf, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 17 February 1940 performance Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg(1953)byRichard WagnerHans Sachs - Paul Schöffler baritoneVeit Pogner - Josef Greindl bassSixtus Beckmesser - Gerhard Pechner baritoneFritz Kothner - Mack Harrell baritoneWalther von Stolzing - Hans Hopf tenorDavid - Richard Holm tenorEva - Victoria de los Ángeles sopranoMagdalena - Hertha Glaz mezzo sopranoNachtwächter - Clifford Harvuot baritoneKunz Vogelgesang - Thomas Hayward tenorKonrad Nachtigall - Algerd Brazis baritoneUlrich Eisslinger - Emery Darcy tenorBalthasar Zorn - Alessio De Paolis tenorAugustin Moser - Joseph FolmerHermann Ortel - Osie Hawkins baritoneHans Schwarz - Lawrence DavidsonHans Foltz - Lorenzo Alvary bassFritz Reiner, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 10 January 1953 performance Der fliegende Holländer(1950)byRichard WagnerHolländer - Hans Hotter baritoneSenta - Astrid Varnay sopranoDaland - Sven Nilsson bassErik - Set Svanholm tenorMary - Hertha Glaz mezzosopranoSteuermann - Thomas Hayward tenorFritz Reiner, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 30 December 1950 performance Das Rheingold(1951)byRichard WagnerWotan - Hans Hotter baritoneFricka - Margaret Harshaw soprano Loge - Set Svanholm tenorMime - Leslie Chabay tenorLawrence Davidson baritoneFreia - Jarmila Novotná sopranoFroh - Brian Sullivan tenorDonner - Osie Hawkins baritoneErda - Jean Madeira contraltoFasolt - Jerome Hines bassFafner - Dezsö Ernster bassWoglinde - Erna Berger sopranoWellgunde - Lucine Amara sopranoFritz Stiedry, conductorMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and ChorusLIVE Recording : 27 January 1950 performance

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