Here we now have a booklet, admittedly minus track listing, but containing not only a comprehensive cast list but a very full synopsis extending over three and a half pages and a number of colour photographs of William Dudley’s handsome sets.Īnd this production is well worthy of such treatment.

A previous release on NVC Arts not only dispensed with a booklet but reduced the accompanying information to an extremely brief synopsis and a track listing, all of which had to be read through the transparent plastic of the DVD cover even the provided cast list was abridged. It is therefore a matter for some congratulation that the reverse is the case with this welcome reissue.

It is all too frequently the melancholy duty of a critic reviewing the reissue of a long-established recording to lament the abbreviated or even non-existent documentation that is provided with the newly available product, comparing it unfavourably with the substantial packaging that may originally have been available. Sung in German with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 14 February 1985 Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House/Sir Georg Solti Support us financially by purchasing fromĭame Kiri te Kanawa, soprano (Marschallin), Anne Howells, mezzo-soprano (Octavian), Aage Haugland, bass (Ochs), Barbara Bonney, soprano (Sophie), Jonathan Summers, baritone (Faninal), Cynthia Buchan, mezzo-soprano (Annina), Robert Tear, tenor (Valzacchi),

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