What Opera Are You Listening to Now?

[JBS]

Moving back to Strauss: The Silent Woman in a recording from 1976-77.


Alternate issue


Apparently uncut, but on sonics alone a vast improvement on my other recording, a Myto release whose main virtue is the presence of Fritz Wunderlich as Henry, a role performed here by Eberhard Buchner, with Jeanette Scovotti in the title role, and Theo Adam as Sir Morosus.

[JBS]

Strauss again (and the last round with him for a bit)


What with the opening scene--a sorceress talking with an All Knowing Seashell in the palace of Poseidon, potions of forgetting and recollection, etc.--this opera is a bit hallucinogenic.