DVD: Otto Edelmann

DVD: Otto Edelmann

DVD:

Otto Edelmann

Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer

Deutsche Grammophon, 2001

Simply the best!
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool opera fanatic and replaced my old VHS of this same performance with the new DVD. It's wonderful. This performance was not idolized in Salzburg for nothing - it's simply the best. Every one of the main characters was in top form and the sets ...

R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac

RCA / BMG

Better late than never
I have never been a Schwarzkopf fan and for the past 18 years preferred Régine Crespin's Marschallin (on Decca), even in the complete Solti recording, where her voice allegedly was in decline (critics are always happy to point out these imperfections). I also never ...