Word: rysanek
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
...premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida. Adler also revived such difficult classics as Verdi's Macbeth and Wagner's Flying Dutchman, gradually building up his own high-caliber stable of singers, including Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Vienna's Leonie Rysanek, British Tenor Richard Lewis, and a strong group of young American discoveries. This season's highlights: the brilliantly staged U.S. premiere of Francis Poulenc's religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes...