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...conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second...
...Germany's Hamburg TV wedded faces and voices in a topnotch production of Smetana's bucolic opera, The Bartered Bride. This exercise in "controlled schizophrenia" (used before in movies) began three months ago with tape recordings of such fine opera stars as Soprano Anny Schlemma, Basso Oskar Czerwenka. At show time the taped music flowed through loudspeakers as more photogenic players performed and mouthed the words. "Sacrilege on the spirit of opera," cried one German critic, but most other opera buffs seemed delighted...
...expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Alois Pernerstorfer, bass; Gertrude Grob-Prandl, soprano; Herbert Handt, tenor; Hilde Konetzni, soprano; Alfred Poell, bass; Hedda Heusser, soprano; Oskar von Czerwenka, bass; Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna...
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