Salome (1952 Reiner, Welitsch / @1905 Strauss), New York (Met) production, sound recording (opera)
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Salome (1952) is a New York (Met) production and sound recording of Salome (1905 Strauss / Lachmann), opera, conducted by Fritz Reiner.
Abstract
Live recording from the Metropolitan Opera House, 19 January 1952.
"A more distinguished cast [than the one in the 1949 recording] fills out a Welitsch Salome from 1952 – Hans Hotter sings like a marble slab – but by then the soprano had already entered her vocal decline.--Gramophone.
Cast
- Ljuba Welitsch = Salome
- Hans Hotter = John the Baptist
- Set Svanholm = Herod Antipas
- Elisabeth Höngen = Herodias
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
Editions
Released on vinyl and CD.
External links
Categories:
- Pages with broken file links
- 1952
- Fiction--1950s
- Fiction--German
- Music--1950s
- Dance--1950s
- Stage Productions
- Sound Recordings
- German language--1950s
- Second Temple Studies--1950s
- 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)