Lortzing - Der Wildschutz
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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or
Cat No: C786102
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 1st February 2010
Contents
Artists
Georg VolkerHilde Rossel-Majdan
Waldemar Kmentt
Irmgard Seefried
Anny Felbermayer
Karl Donch
Renate Holm
Peter Klein
Franz Bierbach
Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor
Heinz WallbergWorks
Der WildschutzArtists
Georg VolkerHilde Rossel-Majdan
Waldemar Kmentt
Irmgard Seefried
Anny Felbermayer
Karl Donch
Renate Holm
Peter Klein
Franz Bierbach
Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor
Heinz WallbergAbout
In the role of the Baron, Waldemar Kmentt proves an ideal partner in every sense of the term, his youthful tenor both radiant and powerful. In Georg Völker’s Count he has a rival who at the end of the work generously admits that he has been courting his own sister.
In this 1960 Vienna production, the aristocrats’ social inferiors were played by no less distinguished singing actors: Renate Holm is an altogether ravishing Gretchen with her clearly focussed light soprano voice, while opposite her – confirming the proverb that opposites exert a magical attraction – is Karl Dönch in the part of her elderly fiancé, who is also the alleged poacher of the title. His ability to point up the text and bring original insights to the part in the finest buffo tradition confirms the reputation of Vienna’s opera ensemble during the postwar period, a reputation based on its impressively large number of distinctive personalities.
The conductor in 1960 was Heinz Wallberg, who coaxes from his soloists, chorus and orchestra a performance that reveals their evident delight in the task in hand, while the spoken dialogue, as rehearsed by the director Adolf Rott, is a source of unbounded delight.
Cast:
- Georg Völker (Graf )
- Hilde Rössel-Majdan (Gräfin)
- Waldemar Kmentt (Baron)
- Irmgard Seefried (Baronin)
- Anny Felbermayer (Nanette)
- Karl Dönch (Baculus)
- Renate Holm (Gretchen)
- Peter Klein (Pancratius)
- Franz Bierbach (Bauer)
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