Evelyn Lear as The Marschallin

This Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Strauss’s DER ROSENKAVALIER is now available for listening via YouTube.

I remember hearing this performance live on the radio, and being much taken by Evelyn Lear’s singing as the Marschallin. The entire cast is impressive, and the conducting by the inimitable Karl Böhm is matchless.

It’s always wonderful to find that such precious documents have been preserved.

Listen here.