Tag: Eberhard Wächter
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Die Fledermaus
“The performance has all the sparkle one could ask for. If anything Karajan is even more brilliant than before and the Decca recording scintillating. Hilde Gueden is a deliciously vivacious Rosalinde, a beautifully projected interpretation. The Karajan ‘gala performance’ featured Decca stars appearing in their turn at the cabaret -in the Orlovsky Ball sequence. This…
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Don Giovanni
For half a century, a rare concensus of critical opinion has deemed this landmark recording of Mozart’s Don Giovanni the finest recording of a work frequently deemed greatest opera in the repertoire. The cast is a who’s who of opera legends from the early stereo era, including (a young) Joan Sutherland, Eberhard Waechter, Giuiseppe Taddei,…