Release: February 8, 2019



* Liszt: Sardanapalo; Mazeppa 



Double premiere – first recording and first performance: Franz Liszt

never finished his mature opera Sardanapalo. Now 170 years old, the

first act refracts the world of mid 19th-century opera through the

prism of Liszt¡¯s unmistakable voice. Kirill Karabits directs Liszt¡¯s own

orchestra in Weimar, where the music was composed, in a programme 

of burning, Byronic romanticism. 



Joyce El-Khoury (Mirra), soprano

Airam Hernández (Sardanapalo), tenor 

Oleksandr Pushniak (Beleso), bass-baritone 

Staatskapelle Weimar | Damen des Opernchores des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar 

Kirill Karabits, conductor