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.
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
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