Word: schoeffler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1 p.m., ABC). Parsifal, with Schoeffler, Edelmann, Svanholm...
...Viennese crowded against police lines around the opera, listening to Fidelia through loudspeakers. Inside, the work's gloomy sets and stern plot seemed hardly a match for the festive occasion, but the audience cheered the triumphant aptness of its subject: freedom. Of the stars, Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler as Don Pizarro was a standout; Soprano Martha Moedl as Leonore was more effective dramatically than vocally. The orchestra, conducted by Opera Director Karl Böhm, won six salvos of applause after it played the famous Leonore Overture...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Die Meistersinger, with De los Angeles, Schoeffler, Hopf...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Tosca, with Kirsten, Tagliavini, Schoeffler...