Lehar - Merry Widow (highlights) | Australian Eloquence ELQ4613152

Lehar - Merry Widow (highlights)

Label: Australian Eloquence

Cat No: ELQ4613152

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Contents

Artists

John Brecknock
Francis Egerton
Graeme Ewer
John Fryatt
Werner Krenn
Valerie Masterson
Regina Resnik
Joan Sutherland
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers

Conductor

Richard Bonynge

Works

Lehar, Franz

Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (highlights)

Artists

John Brecknock
Francis Egerton
Graeme Ewer
John Fryatt
Werner Krenn
Valerie Masterson
Regina Resnik
Joan Sutherland
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers

Conductor

Richard Bonynge

About

Contents:
1. Overture
Act 1
2. Introduction / Duet - 'A highly respectable wife'... 'Look, now's our chance'
3. Anna's entrance - 'Gentlemen, no more'
4. Solo - 'I'm off to Chez Maxime'... 'My very heave Fatherland'
5. Duet - 'Proceed. One girl has almond eyes'
6. Finale I - 'Ladies' choice! Did you hear the welcome voice?'

Act 2
7. Vilja song - 'Let's all now waken memories'
8. Duet - 'Such a silly soldier boy'... 'Heija! See the cavalry'
9. Romanza - 'Love in my heart was dying'
10. Finale II - 'This march should last at least a year'
11. The Cake Walk
12. Njegus' Aria - 'I was born by cruel fate'
13. Cancan - 'We're the famous Maxime playgirls'
14. Duet - 'Love unspoken, Faith unbroken'

Cast:
- Joan Sutherland: Hanna Glawari
- John Brecknock: Camille de Rosillon
- Valerie Masterson: Valencienne
- Werner Krenn: Count Danilo
- Francis Egerton: Raoul
- John Fryatt: Cascada
- Graeme Ewer: Njegus
- Regina Resnik: Zo-Zo

Sung in English

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