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| Teatro Solis in Montevideo |
About 30 minutes of this performance exists. The opera was being staged at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aries in August 1936 (performances on Aug 7, 9, 20 & 23). In the middle of the run the entire cast and orchestra moved across the River Plate to Montevideo in neighbouring Uruguay for one performance, which was partly recorded.
It gives us a rare chance to hear Tiana Lemnitz live on stage. The German soprano was Pamina in Beecham's complete recording of the Magic Flute and captured as Octavian in Rosenkavalier in Buenos Aires (also in 1936).
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| German soprano, Tiana Lemnitz |
Le Nozze di Figaro
August 18, 1936, Teatro Solís, Montevideo
Count Almaviva: Martial Singher
Countess Almaviva: Tiana Lemnitz
Susanna: Editha Fleischer
Figaro: Fernando Autori
Cherubino: Amelita Conte
Marzelline: Irra Petina
Don Basilio: Hans Fleischer
Don Bartolo: Eugenio Sdanovsky
Don Curzio: Luis Santoro
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Colon,
c. Emil Cooper
https://rapidshare.com/files/458190782/1936Nozzeextracts.mp3
Hi, this recording is a treasure but the link is invalid. Could you restore it please? Many thanks
ReplyDeleteI downloaded this years ago. Recently discovered it's actually Kleiber's 1955 studio recording (ft Poell, Siepi, della Casa, Guden, etc), dirtied up to sound older. This was quite common practice with a lot of pirate labels in the 1970s (cf EJ Smith), and I recall the '1936 recording' was circulating before it was posted here. So I am sure OP posted it in good faith, believing it to be genuine. It's a shame it isn't the real deal, but that's just one of those things that happen with historic recordings.
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