The Most Famous Opera Duets (1994) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), Carlo del Monte (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Danielle Millet (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Edita Gruberová (vocals), English Chamber Orchestra (chamber ensemble), Ernest Blanc (vocals)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

EMI's The Most Famous Opera Duets is a decent collection of excerpts that delivers on enough of its promise to be forgiven its superlative title. A few notable blockbusters are missing, like "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème and the evening prayer from Hansel and Gretel, but overall the collection covers its territory well -- from the famous ...

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (2006) more music like this

performed by Anna Moffo (vocals), Diana Cunningham (vocals), Dora Gatta (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Elisabetta Fusco (vocals), Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals), Gillian Spencer (vocals), Giuseppe Taddei (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Why not another record another Le nozze di Figaro? When this studio performance was taped in 1959, there had already been three great postwar recordings of the work -- the 1950 Karajan, the 1953 Furtwängler, and the 1955 Kleiber -- plus Böhm's 1956 and 1957 performances were surreptitiously available as pirate recordings from Europe, so it's not ...

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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (2006) more music like this

performed by Anny Felbermayer (vocals), Children's Chorus from Loughton High School for Girls and, Christa Ludwig (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Erich Majkut (vocals), Franz Bierbach (vocals), Gerhard Unger (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

Though there are good reasons for hearing other recordings of Der Rosenkavalier -- the endlessly attractive 1954 Decca recording with Reining, Jurinac, Gueden, and Weber with Erich Kleiber leading the Vienna Philharmonic or the luminously appealing 1994 DG recording with Lott, von Otter, Bonney, and Moll with Carlos Kleiber, Erich's son, leading ...

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Richard Strauss: Salome [Remastered] (2006) more music like this

performed by Aron Gestner (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Grace Hoffmann (vocals), Heinz Holecek (vocals), Josephine Veasey (vocals), Kurt Equiluz (vocals), Liselotte Maikl (vocals), Max Proebstl (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss' early operatic success with Salome helped secure the composer a distinguished place in history. Although the lustful Salome had been portrayed before, it wasn't until Strauss expounded upon Oscar Wilde's play that this story became so massively successful. The popularity that the opera enjoyed has only seemed to grow, and a number ...

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An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen (1995) more music like this

performed by Anita Valkki (vocals), Berit Lindholm (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Claire Watson (vocals), Claudia Hellmann (vocals), Deryck Cooke (speech/speaker/speaking part)
composed by Deryck Cooke

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Opera Obsession! Act IV (2007) more music like this

performed by Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Cecilia Fusco (vocals), Claire Watson (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Franco Corelli (tenor), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Francesco Cilea, Franco Alfano, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Umberto Giordano, Vincenzo Bellini

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The Most Relaxing Opera Album in the World...Ever! (2005) more music like this

performed by Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anna Moffo (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Danielle Millet (mezzo-soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Eberhard Wächter (baritone)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frederick Handel, George Gershwin, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach

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Strauss: Salome (1999) more music like this

performed by Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Ewald Aichberger (vocals), Frederick Guthrie (vocals), Grace Hoffmann (vocals), Hans Hopf (vocals), Heinz Zednik (vocals), Herbert Lackner (vocals), Karl Terkal (vocals), Kurt Equiluz (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (1989) more music like this

performed by Anna Moffo (soprano), Diana Gillingham (soprano), Dora Gatta (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elisabetta Fusco (soprano), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo-soprano), Gillian Spencer (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart: Don Giovanni (2002) more music like this

performed by Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Giuseppe Taddei (vocals), Gottlob Frick (vocals), Graziella Sciutti (vocals), Heinrich Schmidt (harpsichord), Joan Sutherland (vocals), Luigi Alva (vocals), Piero Cappuccilli (vocals)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Strauss: Salome more music like this

performed by Aron Gestner (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Grace Hoffmann (vocals), Heinz Holecek (vocals), Josephine Veasey (vocals), Kurt Equiluz (vocals), Liselotte Maikl (vocals), Max Proebstl (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Wagner: Parsifal (1999) more music like this

performed by Christa Ludwig (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Fritz Uhl (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Tugomir Franc (vocals), Walter Berry (vocals), Vienna State Opera Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Staatsopernorchester
composed by Richard Wagner

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Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Great Scenes (1998) more music like this

performed by Berit Lindholm (vocals), Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Claudia Hellmann (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), George London (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (vocals), Gottlob Frick (vocals), Hans Hotter (vocals), Helen Watts (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Mozart: Popular Music from Film (2005) more music like this

performed by Alban Berg Quartet, André Previn (piano), Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Annie Fischer (piano), Augustin Dumay (violin), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Christian Zacharias (piano), Claudio Desderi (baritone), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Edda Moser (soprano)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This CD of Mozart works used in hit films, presumably released in conjunction with the Mozart 250th birthday hoopla, actually stands out from among EMI's reduce-reuse-and-recycle CD releases as a compilation that's both enjoyable and useful. The value of the collection lies in its scope and in its quality of being current -- all the films whose ...

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Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus (2007) more music like this

performed by Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Erich Kunz (vocals), Erika Koth (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Fernando Corena (vocals), Giulietta Simionato (vocals), Giuseppe Zampieri (vocals), Hedwig Schubert (vocals), Hilde Gueden (vocals)
composed by Benedetto Ferrari, Felix Lavilla, Franz Lehár, Frederick Loewe, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Johann Strauss II, Luigi Arditi, Rudolf Sieczynski, Vincenzo Valente

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Strauss: Capriccio (2000) more music like this

performed by Anna Moffo (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), David Winnard (vocals), Dennis Wicks (vocals), Dermot Troy (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Edgar Fleet (vocals), Edward Darling (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Mozart: Don Giovanni [Highlights] more music like this

performed by Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Gottlob Frick (bass), Graziella Sciutti (soprano), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Luigi Alva (tenor), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Otto Klemperer, Wiener Philharmoniker: Live Broadcast Performances [Box Set] (2005) more music like this

performed by Alfred Prinz (clarinet), Camillo Öhlberger (bassoon), Christian Cubasch (clarinet), Dietmar Zeman (bassoon), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Ernst Pamperl (bassoon), Ferdinand Raab (oboe), Franz Holetschek (harpsichord), Gunter Hogner (horn)
composed by Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Recorded Sound, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Verdi: Don Carlo (1998) more music like this

performed by Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Ewald Aichberger (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Gundula Janowitz (vocals), Nicolai Ghiaurov (vocals), Shirley Verrett (vocals), Vienna State Opera Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Staatsopernorchester, Horst Stein (conductor)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (2005) more music like this

performed by Alfred Poell (vocals), Anny Felbermayer (vocals), Berta Seidl (vocals), Christel Goltz (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Edith Preisner (vocals), Elisabeth Höngen (vocals), Emmy Loose (vocals), Gertraud Bastezky (vocals), Hans Hopf (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Strauss: Die Fledermaus (1987) more music like this

performed by Birgit Nilsson (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Erich Kunz (vocals), Erika Koth (vocals), Ettore Bastianini (vocals), Fernando Corena (vocals), Giulietta Simionato (vocals), Hedwig Schubert (vocals), Hilde Gueden (vocals), Joan Sutherland (vocals)
composed by Johann Strauss II

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Strauss: Salome (1999) more music like this

performed by Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Grace Hoffmann (vocals), Hans Hopf (vocals), Leonie Rysanek (vocals), Vienna State Opera Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Staatsopernorchester, Adolph Kurt Bohm (conductor)
composed by Richard Strauss

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Strauss: Die Fledermaus more music like this

performed by Benno Kusche (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Carole Malone (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Friedrich Lenz (vocals), Gundula Janowitz (vocals), Otto Schenk (vocals), Waldemar Kmentt (vocals), Wolfgang Brendel (vocals)
composed by Johann Strauss II

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Wagner: Parsifal more music like this

performed by Claudia Hellmann (vocals), Donaldson Bell (vocals), Dorothea Siebert (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Witzmann (vocals), Georg Paskuda (vocals), Gisela Schroter (vocals), Hans Beirer (vocals), Harald Neukirch (vocals), Herold Kraus (vocals)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Richard Strauss: Arabella (2006) more music like this

performed by Anton Dermota (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Fritz Sengl (vocals), George London (vocals), Harald Proglhoff (vocals), Hilde Gueden (vocals), Ira Malaniuk (vocals), Judith Hellwig (vocals), Karl Kolowratnik (vocals), Lisa della Casa (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

How can one decide between Lisa della Casa's many recordings of Strauss' Arabella? After all, she recorded the work twice for major labels -- this 1957 Decca recording with Solti conducting and a 1963 DG recording with Keilberth conducting -- and, beyond that, there are half a dozen or so extant live recordings. But of course, when you want a ...

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