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Last summer the girl from Portsmouth, Ohio, sang for the Pope in Rome. It was a performance of Mozart's "Coronation" Mass conducted by Herbert von Karajan. "We were in the apse of St. Peter's," she recalls. "The altar is off to our right and a little in front of us. After everyone is in place, the procession begins, and John Paul II is at the end, in full vestments. It's hard to speak of it as a musical occasion. It was a moment in life that one treasures. Oh, it was great to be there...
STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin, Sena Jurinac as Octavian, Anneliese Rothenberger as Sophie, Otto Edelmann as Baron Ochs. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Video Arts International; $79.95; hi-fi mono. Pride of place belongs to this classic, filmed at the Salzburg Festival and released in 1962. The cast is the cream of central Europe at the time: Schwarzkopf, regal but warm in what was her greatest role; Jurinac, an ardent youthful swain; Rothenberger, silvery voiced and breathtakingly beautiful; and Edelmann, a bumptious hick from the sticks. Karajan's mastery of the score so gloriously displayed...
...camerawork when the viewer's concentration should be on the poignancy of the moment. Although the color has faded somewhat, giving the film an antique air, the picture is sharp and clear. All in all, this Rosenkavalier captures the feeling of being there, right down to the sight of Karajan making his way energetically through the orchestra, hopping onto the podium and cuing the horns for their first dashing leap. There are no subtitles, so have your libretto handy...
...effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C. From her 1957 debut in San Francisco, as Madame Lidoine in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Price was recognized as a major talent. The following year, Conductor Herbert von Karajan cast her as Aida in Vienna; when she sang the Ethiopian princess at La Scala in 1960, one Italian critic exclaimed: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aida." Her Met debut came in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation...
RICHARD STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (Deutsche Grammophon). Herbert von Karajan leads a sterling silver cast in Strauss's nostalgic Viennese nosegay...