Release Date: March 2013



* Mozart: Operas



Disc 1-3 Opera: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 (rec. January 1970)

Otto Klemperer/ New Philharmonia Orchestra

Figaro - Sir Geraint Evans (baritone)

Susanna - Reri Grist (soprano)

Conte Almaviva - Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)

Countess Almaviva - Elisabeth Söderström (soprano) 

Cherubino - Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)

Marcellina - Annelies Burmeister (mezzo-soprano)

Bartolo - Michael Langdon (bass)

Don Basilio - Werner Hollweg (tenor)

Don Curzio - Willi Brokmeier (tenor)

John Alldis Choir   



Disc 4-6 Opera: Don Giovanni, K 527

Otto Klemperer/ New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (rec. June/July 1966)

Don Giovanni - Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) 

Commendatore - Franz Crass (bass)

Donna Anna - Claire Watson (soprano)

Donna Elvira - Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)

Don Ottavio - Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

Leporello - Walter Berry (baritone)

Zerlina - Mirella Freni (soprano)

Masetto - Paolo Montarsolo (bass)

 

Disc 7-9 Opera: Così fan tutte, K 588

Otto Klemperer/ New Philharmonia Orchestra (rec. January/February 1971)

Fiordiligi - Margaret Price (soprano)

Dorabella - Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)

Ferrando - Luigi Alva (tenor)

Guglielmo - Sir Geraint Evans (baritone)

Despina - Lucia Popp (soprano)

Don Alfonso - Hans Sotin (bass)

John Alldis Choir



Disc 10-11 Opera: Die Zauberflöte, K 620

Otto Klemperer/ Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (rec. March/April 1964)  

Pamina - Gundula Janowitz (soprano)

Tamino - Nicolai Gedda (tenor)  

Papageno - Walter Berry (baritone) 

Papagena - Ruth-Margret Pütz (soprano) 

Queen of Night - Lucia Popp (soprano) 

Sarastro - Gottlob Frick (bass) 

Monostatos - Gerhard Unger (tenor)

Narrator - Franz Crass (bass) 

First Lady - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)

Second Lady - Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)

Third Lady - Marga Höffgen (contralto)