Release Date: 02 September 2022
Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 845221054780
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Leo Blech
Description
Around 1902 Leo Blech took the subject of the “original romantic-comic magic” play by Viennese theatre manager/actor/playwright Ferdinand Raimund, adapted it, and turned it into his fifth opera. A cantankerous misanthrope terrorises family and servants with his paranoid mistrust. He’s cured only when faced with his own behaviour, courtesy of a supernatural role reversal. Highbrow opera meets folksy farce with unexpectedly sumptuous and splendidly orchestrated music that lies somewhere between Wagner and Humperdinck. The opera's premiere at the Dresden Court Theatre was a sensational success. All of Blech’s music was subsequently banned and, once the Nazi horror was over, it never returned. Now you can hear what we missed.
TRIENDL/JOHANNS/KARMON
GROISSBOCK/ORF VRSO/HUSSAIN
Saatsorchester Stuttgart; Esther Dierkes; Elena Tsallagova; Björn Bürger; Adam Palka; Maria Riccard
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jochen Kowlaski; Peter Schreier; Alfredo Kraus; Ramon Vargas; Hermann Prey; Anne Schwanewilms; Kamm
Camilla Nylund, Christoph Pohl, Daniel Behld, Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thieleman
Various
Orf Vrso/Poschner
