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STRAUSS II, J.: Zigeunerbaron (Der) (The Gypsy Baron) (Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Ackermann) (1954) |
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Composer: |
Johann Strauss II |
Artist: |
Jussi Bjorling, Ingrid Kertesi, Lotte Lehmann, Richard Tauber, Elisabeth Rethberg, Charles Kullman, Janos Berkes, Hjordis Schymberg, Erich Kunz, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Joseph Schmidt, Nicolai Gedda, Grete Merrem-Nikisch, Karin Branzell, Waldemar Stagemann, Hermann Prey, Joseph Schmidinger, Hanns Lange, Erika Koth, Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster, Karel Stepanek, Lea Seidl, Monica Sinclair, Jorg Schneider, Peter Anders, Willy Ferenz, Erich Paulik, Nata Tuscher |
Conductor: |
Laszlo Kovacs, Anton Paulik, Alfred Walter, Frieder Weissmann, Nils Grevillius, Ondrej Lenard, Otto Ackermann, Leo Blech, Studio conductor, Paul Burkhard |
Choir: |
Berlin State Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Chorus |
Orchestra: |
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Hungarian Operetta Orchestra, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nils Grevillius Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Strauss Festival Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Studio orchestra, Salonorchester Alt Wien |
Lyricist: |
Ignaz Schnitzer |
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Catalogue No.: |
8.111329-30 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0747313332922 |
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Second in popularity only to Die Fledermaus, Strauss’s The Gypsy Baron is a colourful comic opera whose vividly drawn characters include a gypsy girl who turns out to be a Turkish Pasha’s daughter, a fortune-telling Romany queen, an exiled landowner, ridiculous local dignitaries, hussars and, inevitably, a band of gypsies. Embroiling themselves in the entertainingly convoluted plot, the stellar cast of this 1954 London recording includes Gedda, Prey and Sinclair, still in their twenties, and Schwarzkopf, yet to turn forty and at her peak.
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