Karajan - The Complete Opera Recordings on DG & Decca - Box Set 70CDs

Label : DG
Format : ALAC
Cover : Yes

With this original jackets’ box set Deutsche Grammophon concludes its series of 4 grand sets that present the totality of Herbert von Karajan’s output for the Yellow Label – and hence perhaps the most magnificent legacy in the history of recorded music.

On 70 CDs “KARAJAN – THE OPERA RECORDINGS” features the 14 operas Karajan recorded for DGG – from “Carmen” to “Parsifal”, from “The Merry Widow” to “Rosenkavalier”, from Mozart to Puccini. And, of course, the complete “Ring”.

Incorporated are Karajan’s 8 opera recordings for DECCA (+ Verdi’s “Falstaff” that was originally released on Philips), as well as 5 live recordings from the Salzburg Festival, including, as bonus, Haydn’s “The Creation”.

CD 1-3 :

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
Carmen
Agnes Baltsa (Carmen), José Carreras (Don José), José van Dam (Escamillo), Katia Ricciarelli (Micaëla), Christine Barbaux (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Gino Quilico (Le Dancaïre), Heinz Zednik (Le Remendado), Mikael Melbye (Moralès), Alexander Malta (Zuniga)
Paris Opera Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 4-5 :

Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787)
Orfeo ed Euridice
Salzburg
Giulietta Simionato (Orfeo), Sena Jurinac (Euridice), Graziella Sciutti (Amor)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper

CD 6-7 :

Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948)
Die Lustige Witwe
Elizabeth Harwood (Soprano), Teresa Stratas (Soprano), Donald Grobe (Tenor), Werner Hollweg (Tenor), Zoltan Kelemen (Tenor), René Kollo (Tenor), Werner Krenn (Tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

CD 8 :

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919)
I Pagliacci
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Joan Carlyle (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Ugo Benelli (tenor), Rolando Panerai (baritone), Giuseppe Morresi (bass) & Franco Ricciardi (tenor)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

CD 9 :

Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
Cavalleria Rusticana
Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Adriane Martino, Maria Gracia Allegri, Giangiacomo Guelfi
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

CD 10-12 :

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Le nozze di Figaro, K492
1978
Ileana Cotrubas (Susanna), José van Dam (Figaro), Tom Krause (Il Conte), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (La Contessa), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Jules Bastin (Bartolo), Heinz Zednik (Basilio), Kurt Equiluz (Curzio), Zoltán Kéléman (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina)
Wiener Staatsopernorchester und-Chor

CD 13-15 :

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Don Giovanni, K527
Samuel Ramey (Don Giovanni), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Donna Anna), Agnes Baltsa (Donna Elvira), Kathleen Battle (Zerlina), Gosta Winbergh (Don Ottavio), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Alexander Malta (Masetto) & Paata Burchuladze (Il Commendatore)
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 16-17 :

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Die Zauberflöte, K620
Francisco Araiza (Tamino), Jose van Dam (Sarastro), Edith Mathis (Pamina), Gottfried Hornik (Papageno), Karin Ott (Königin der Nacht), Heinz Kruse (Monostatos), Janet Perry (Papagena), Volker Horn (Erste Geharnischter), Victor von Halem (Zweite Geharnischter), Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Hanna Schwarz (Drei Damen)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 18-20 :

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)
Boris Godunov
Recorded: Sofiensaal, Vienna, 11/1970. Edited by Rimsky-Korsakov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Boris), Olivera Miljakovic (Fyodor), Aleksei Maslennikov (Shuisky/Simpleton), Martti Talvela (Pimen), Ludovic Spiess (Grigory/False Dmitry), Anton Diakov (Varlaam), Nadejda Dobrianova (Xenia), Milen Paunov (Missail), Galina Vishnevskaya (Marina), Zoltan Kélémén (Rangoni), Margarita Lilowa (Hostess)
Wiener Sängerknaben, Sofia Radio Chorus, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 21-22 :

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
La Bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol), Hans-Dieter Appelt (Sergente dei doganieri), Hans-Dietrich Pohl (Un doganiere)
Chorus of German Opera Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 23-24 :

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Tosca
Studio recording, 1962
Leontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano), Carlo Cava (Angelotti), Piero De Palma (Spoletta), Leonardo Monreale (Sciarrone), Herbert Weiss (Un pastore), Alfredo Mariotti (Un carceriere)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 25-26 :

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Tosca
Katia Ricciarelli (Tosca), Jose Carreras (Cavaradossi), Ruggero Raimondi (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano), Gottfried Hornik (Angelotti), Heinz Zednik (Spoletta), Victor von Halem (Sciarrone), Wolfgang Bünten (Un pastore), Victor von Halem (Un carceriere)
Chor der Deutsche Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 27-28 :

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Madama Butterfly
Mirella Freni (Butterfly), Plácido Domingo (Pinkerton), Robert Kerns (Sharpless), Christa Ludwig (Suzuki), Michel Sénéchal (Goro), Giorgio Stendoro (Yamadori), Marius Rintzler (Bonzo)
Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 29-30 :

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Turandot
Katia Ricciarelli, Piero de Palma, Ruggero Raimondi, Plácido Domingo, Barbara Hendricks, Gottfried Hornik, Heinz Zednik, Francisco Araiza, Siegmund Nimsgern
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Sängerknaben

CD 31-32 :

Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899)
Die Fledermaus
Hilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 33-35 :

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Der Rosenkavalier
1960 (Salzburg)
Lisa della Casa (Die Marschallin), Sena Jurinac (Octavian), Hilde Gueden (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Erich Kunz (Faninal), Renato Ercolani (Valzacchi), Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Annina), Giuseppe Zampieri (Italian Singer), Judith Hellwig (Marianne)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

CD 36-38 :

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Der Rosenkavalier
Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Agnes Baltsa (Octavian), Janet Perry (Sophie) & Kurt Moll (Ochs), Gottfried Hornik (Faninal)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor

CD 39-40 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Verdi:
Il Trovatore
Salzburg
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Il Conte di Luna), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Laurence Dutoit (Ines), Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Ruiz)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor

CD 41-42 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Leo Nucci, Florence Quivar & Sumi Jo
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 43-44 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Don Carlo
Salzburg
Fernandi, Jurinac, Simionato, Bastianini, Siepi & Stefanoni
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 45-46 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Aida
Renata Tebaldi (Aida), Carlo Bergonzi (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Cornell MacNeil (Amonasro), Arnold Van Mill (Ramfis), Fernando Corena (Il Re di Egitto), Eugenia Ratti (Una Sacerdotessa), Piero De Palma (Un Messaggero)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

CD 47-48 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Otello
Mario del Monaco (Otello), Aldo Protti (Iago), Renata Tebaldi (Desdemona), Nello Romanato (Cassio), Athos Cesarini (Rodrigo), Fernando Corena (Lodovico), Tom Krause (Montano), Ana Raquel Satra (Emilia)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker

CD 49-50 :

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Falstaff
Studio recording, 1980
Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Ronaldo Panerai (Ford), Francisco Araiza (Fenton), Piero De Palma (Dr Caius), Heinz Zednik (Bardolfo), Federico Davià (Pistola), Raina Kabaivanska (Alice Ford), Janet Perry (Nannetta), Trudeliese Schmidt (Meg Page), Christa Ludwig (Mistress Quickly)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor

CD 51-64 :

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Das Rheingold : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wotan), Zoltán Kelemen (Alberich), Josephine Veasey (Fricka), Gerhard Stolze (Loge), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Martti Talvela (Fasolt), Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner), Donald Grobe (Froh), Simone Mangelsdorff (Freia), Helen Donath (Woglinde), Edda Moser (Wellgunde), Anna Reynolds (Flosshilde)

- Die Walküre : Régine Crespin (Brünnhilde), Thomas Stewart (Wotan), Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Martti Talvela (Hunding), Josephine Veasey (Fricka), Danica Mastilovic (Helmwige), Carlotta Ordassy (Ortlinde), Liselotte Rebmann (Gerhilde), Ingrid Steger (Waltraute), Barbro Ericson (Siegrune), Helga Jenckel (Rossweisse), Cvetka Ahlin (Grimgerde), Lilo Brockhaus (Schwertleite)

- Siegfried : Jess Thomas (Siegfried), Thomas Stewart (Der Wanderer), Gerhard Stolze (Mime), Helga Dernesch (Brünnhilde), Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner), Oralia Dominguez (Erda), Catherine Gayer (Waldvogel)

- Götterdämmerung : Helga Dernesch (Brünnhilde), Helge Brilioth (Siegfried), Karl Ridderbusch (Hagen), Zoltán Kelemen (Alberich), Thomas Stewart (Gunther), Gundula Janowitz (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute), Liselotte Rebmann (Woglinde), Edda Moser (Wellgunde), Anna Reynolds (Flosshilde), Lili Chookasian (First Norn), Christa Ludwig (Second Norn), Catarina Ligendza (Third Norn)
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 65-68 :

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Parsifal
Peter Hofmann (Parsifal), Dunja Vejzovic (Kundry), Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), José van Dam (Amfortas), Siegmund Nimsgern (Klingsor), Victor von Halem (Titurel), Hanna Schwarz (Alto Stimme)
Berlin German Opera Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 69-70 :

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
The Creation
Live recording from Salzburg, 1965
Gundula Janowitz, Fritz Wunderlich, Kim Borg, Hermann Prey
Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien