Recordings

COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS

  1. Wagner's
    1. Lohengrin
      1. 1953; Joseph Keilberth
      2. 1962; Wolfgang Sawallisch
    2. Fliegender Hollaender
      1. 1956; Keilberth
    3. Die Walkuere; Act three
      1. 1951; Herbert von Karajan
  2. Carl Orff
    1. Oedipus der Tyrann
      1. 1966; Ferdinand Leitner
  3. Pietro Mascagni
    1. Cavalleria Rusticana
      1. 1989; Riccardo Muti (as Mamma Lucia)
  4. Umberto Giordano
    1. Andrea Chenier
      1. 1984; Riccardo Chailly (as La Contessa di Coigny)
  5. Igor Stravinsky
    1. The Rake's Progress
      1. 1984; Riccardo Chailly (as Mother Goose)
      In addition she recorded Banfield's "Lord Byron's Love Letter", which is currently unavailable.

      Other complete operas currently available;

      1. Wagner
        1. Der Fliegende Hollaender
          1. 1950; Fritz Reiner
          2. 1955; Hans Knappertsbusch
        2. Tannhaeuser
          1. 1948; Fritz Stiedry (as Venus)
        3. Lohengrin
          1. 1943; Erich Leinsdorf (as Elsa)
          2. 1954; Eugen Jochum (as Ortrud)
          3. 1958; Andre Clytens (as Ortrud)
          4. 1960; Lorin Maazel (as Ortrud)
        4. Der Ring des Nibelungen
          1. 1953; Clemens Krauss
          2. 1957; Hans Knappertsbusch
          3. 1960; Rudolf Kempe
        5. Die Walkuere
          1. 1941; Erich Leinsdorf (Sieglinde)
          2. 1951; Herbert von Karajan
          3. 1952; Joseph Keilberth
          4. 1954; Joseph Keilberth
        6. Siegfried
          1. 1951; Fritz Stiedry
          2. 1952; Joseph Keilberth
        7. Die Goetterdaemmerung
          1. 1952; Joseph Keilberth
          2. 1955; Joseph Keilberth
        8. Tristan und Isolde
          1. 1953; Eugen Jochum
        9. Parsifal
          1. 1954; Fritz Stiedry
      2. Richard Strauss
        1. Salome
          1. 1953; Hermann Weigert
          2. 1974; Karl Boehm (as Herodias)
        2. Elektra
          1. 1949; Dimitri Mitropoulos
          2. 1952; Fritz Reiner
          3. 1953; Richard Kraus
          4. 1964; Herbert von Karajan
          5. 1982; Karl Boehm (as Klytaemnestra)
        3. Der Rosenkavalier
          1. 1953; Fritz Reiner
      3. Giuseppe Verdi
        1. Simon Boccanegra
          1. 1950; Fritz Stiedry
        2. Macbeth
          1. 1954; Vittorio Gui (This may be a mistake, the Macbeth with Gui in Florenze was earlier, and there is a German radio performance of about that time)
      4. Pietro Mascagni;
        1. Cavalleria Rusticana
          1. 1954; Wolfgang Sawallisch (not on CD)
          2. 1978; Nello Santi (as Mamma Lucia)
      5. Leos Janacek
        1. Jenufa
          1. 1970; Raphael Kubelik
      Also available are;
      1. The Wesendonck Lieder by Wagner.
      2. A very beautiful Lieder disk, with songs by Respighi, Wagner and Dvorak,where she is accompanied by Hans Bender.
      3. The release of the Weigert-conducted "Salome" also contains four Strauss Lieder.
      4. The aria recital, recorded in 1950, conducted by Weigert.
      Not available at the moment are the two disks of excerpts from "Tristan und Isolde", conducted by Ferdinand Leitner, and the duetts from "Siegfried" and "Goetterdaemmerung", both with Wolfgang Windgassen, and conducted by Leitner.

      VIDEOS

      The TV productions of "Salome" and "Elektra", both produced by Goetz Friedrich and conducted by Karl Boehm are available commercially.
      With a bit of luck, one can also find the videos of the television transmissions of "Jenufa" (Munich, 1970), "Orpheus in der Unterwelt" (Berlin, 1983) and "Mahagonny" (New York,1979.)

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