Tag: Giuseppe Sinopoli

  • Sinopoli Conducts ELEKTRA

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    The late, lamented Giuseppe Sinopoli (above) conducted this concert performance of Strauss’s ELEKTRA with the Staatskapell Dresden at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall in 1995.

    Watch and listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhGicuJMIM

    Klytemnestra: Felicity Palmer; Elektra: Sabine Hass; Chrysothemis: Inga Nielsen; Aegisthus: Wilfried Gahmlich; Orestes: Alfred Muff.

  • Sinopoli: PARSIFAL @ Bayreuth ~ 1998

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    Above: Hans Sotin as Gurnemanz, Poul Elming as Parsifal

    Wagner’s PARSIFAL from the 1998 Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli.

    Watch and listen here.

    Cast:

    Amfortas – Falk Struckmann
    Titurel – Matthias Hölle
    Gurnemanz – Hans Sotin
    Parsifal – Poul Elming
    Klingsor – Ekkehard Wlaschiha
    Kundry – Linda Watson
    Grail Knights: Richard Brunner, Sándor Sólyom-Nagy
    Squires: Sarah Fryer, Jane Turner, Helmut Pampuch, Peter Maus
    Alto solo: Andrea Bönig 

    Flower Maidens: Claudia Barainsky, Joyce Guyer, Simone Schröder, Katerina Beranova, Dorothee Jansen, Laura Nykänen