Word: fischer-dieskau
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Almost Hypnotic. To symbolize the work's spirit of reconciliation, Britten had originally selected an Englishman and a German for the two male leads-English Tenor Peter Pears and German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But Fischer-Dieskau, who was so moved during the Coventry performance that he was barely able to sing some of his lines, had an attack of bronchitis and was forced to cancel in Germany. His part was taken by Austrian Baritone Walter Berry. The audience seemed almost hypnotized from the work's opening lines to Owen's closing "Let us sleep...
Victoria de los Angeles and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, piano; Angel). A beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now only rarely heard in the concert hall. Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited, and Soprano de los Angeles and Baritone Fischer-Dieskau do well by them. Pianist Moore is pictured on the album cover with his two singers, a recognition he deserves but one that he and his fellow accompanists rarely receive...
...become a U.S. citizen, returned to Berlin in 1954 to take up his old job as director of the City Opera. He was scheduled to retire after opening night, and he left on a high note. At opera's end, the audience enthusiastically applauded Native Son Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following night new Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner was not so lucky. He bowed in with avant-garde Composer Giselher Klebe's new opera, Alkmene, an academic, humorless scoring of the ribald...
Though Henze's melodies were somewhat diffuse, critics were impressed with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after...
Spine-Tingling Blasts. There are showier, more opulent-sounding baritones than Fischer-Dieskau. But there are no singers about nowadays who use their voices with more intelligence, accuracy or theatrical effect. Fischer-Dieskau never uses his texts as excuses for mere vocal gymnastics. In the art songs of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, he sings his way into moods alternately tragic, boisterous and nostalgic with subtle modulations of his dry, husky voice. And when at climactic moments he throws his baritone out in a high, ringing fortissimo, the effect is as spine-tingling as a trumpet blast...