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Early Romantic Operas

on BBC Radio 3

Undine
Magic Opera in three acts Words by FOUQUÉ
Music by E.T.A. Hoffmann (sung in German)
(first UK broadcast)
Premiered in Berlin in 1816, and owing a musical debt to Mozart and Gluck, this Singspiel, with its otherworldly plot and its loosening of dramatic structure, exemplifies the new German attitude towards opera. (bass) (mezzo-soprano)(soprano)(baritone)(bass)(tenor) (mezzo-soprano) (soprano)
Watersprites, the Duke's followers, knights and their ladies, horsemen and pages CHOIR OF ST HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL,
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ROLAND BADER Act

Contributors

Conducted By:
Roland Bader
Huldbrand of Ringstetten, a knight:
Roland Hermann (baritone)
Old fisherman:
Hans Franzen
His wife:
Elisabeth Glauser
Undine, their adopted daughter:
Krisztina Laki
Heilmann, a priest:
Heikki Orama
Kuhleborn, a watersprite:
Karl Ridderbusch
Duke:
Ulrich Ress
Duchess:
Dora Koschak
Berthalda, their adopted daughter:
Mani Mekler

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