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Live recording from the Metropolitan Opera House, 12 March 1949. | Live recording from the Metropolitan Opera House, 12 March 1949. | ||
"The leading [[Salome]] of the early post-war years was [[Ljuba Welitsch]]. A 1949 Metropolitan Opera broadcast with [[Fritz Reiner]] conducting shows the Bulgarian powerhouse at her short-lived peak – at once piercing and sensuous, able to tum on a dime from seductive lyricism to raw terror. Observe how she breaks down in sobs when [[John the Baptist|Jochanaan]] refuses and curses her; one realises that adolescent hurt propels Salome's horrific deed. Reiner's orchestra plays with fire and finesse. You can hear the complete broadcast on a Guild issue, with a vibrant Gianni Schicchi to start: the Met devised odd bedfellows for Salome in this period, Pergolesi's La serva padrona being the oddest."--[https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/richard-strausss-salome-which-recording-is-best Gramophone]. | |||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
Revision as of 06:20, 25 March 2017
Salome (1949) is a sound recording of Salome (1905 Strauss / Lachmann), opera, conducted by Fritz Reiner.
Abstract
Live recording from the Metropolitan Opera House, 12 March 1949.
"The leading Salome of the early post-war years was Ljuba Welitsch. A 1949 Metropolitan Opera broadcast with Fritz Reiner conducting shows the Bulgarian powerhouse at her short-lived peak – at once piercing and sensuous, able to tum on a dime from seductive lyricism to raw terror. Observe how she breaks down in sobs when Jochanaan refuses and curses her; one realises that adolescent hurt propels Salome's horrific deed. Reiner's orchestra plays with fire and finesse. You can hear the complete broadcast on a Guild issue, with a vibrant Gianni Schicchi to start: the Met devised odd bedfellows for Salome in this period, Pergolesi's La serva padrona being the oddest."--Gramophone.
Cast
- Ljuba Welitsch as Salome
- Herbert Janssen as John the Baptist
- Frederick Jagel as Herod Antipas
- Kirsten Thorborg as Herodias
- Metropoltan Opera Orchestra
Editions
External links
- 1949
- Fiction--1940s
- Fiction--German
- Music--1940s
- Sound Recordings
- German language--1940s
- Second Temple Studies--1940s
- Second Temple Studies--German
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Death of John the Baptist (subject)
- Salome--music (subject)
- John the Baptist--music (subject)
- Herodias--music (subject)
- Herod Antipas--music (subject)