Description:

Pros:

• This performance reunites most of the original cast from the legendary inaugural season of the new Metropolitan Opera House.
• Although she opts out of some of the most stratospheric high notes, Leonie Rysanek shows she still has the Straussian goods.
• James King’s burnished tenor seems to relish the chance to linger in the upper extension of his voice.
• Ursula Schröder-Feinen does an admirable job in the role of the Färberin, but it is clear that her soprano is beginning to show the wear-and-tear that would ultimately curtail her very promising career.
• Walter Berry brings elegance to the role of Barak.
• The sound is excellent.

Cons:

• None to mention.

In Stereo

OD 11618-3