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Beethoven: Theatre Music
Today I shall listen to the opera rehearsal at a distance - better than being close by while my music is butchered....
(Letter to the opera singer
Friedrich Mayer , April 1806) Opferlied, Op 121b
LORNA HAYWOOD (soprano) AMBROSIAN SINGERS
LSO/MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Overture Leonora Fidelio , original version and Act III Finale
Don Fernando
HERMANN-CHRISTIAN POLLSTER (baSS) LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN/
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT : records

Contributors

Singer:
Friedrich Mayer
Soprano:
Lorna Haywood
Unknown:
Tilson Thomas
Unknown:
Overture Leonora Fidelio
Unknown:
Don Fernando
Unknown:
Herbert Blomstedt
Leonora:
Edda Moser (sop)
Marcelline:
Helen Donath (sop)
Florestan:
Richard Cassilly (tenor)
ROCCO:
Karl Ridderbusch (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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