Oberon's Grove

Vivaldi ~ GLORIA

Ensemble Musica Sacra Dresden, directed by Karl Hänsel, perform Vivaldi's GLORIA; the concert dates from 2015.

Watch and listen here.

Voigt/Gergiev SALOME

A concert performance of Strauss' SALOME from the Verbier Festival 2010 has come to my attention. Deborah Voigt sings the title-role, and Valery Gergiev conducts.

Watch and listen here.

Salome: Deborah Voigt
Herodias: Dame Gwyneth Jones
Jochanaan: Evgeny Nikitin
Herod: Siegfried Jerusalem

Jessye Norman ~ Vier Letze Lieder

Jessye Norman sings Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs from a 1979 concert, with the Orchestre de La Suisse Romande conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Watch and listen here.

Stars of La Scala ~ Moscow Concert 1964

A recital of Verdi arias performed by leading singers from La Scala on a visit to Moscow in 1964.

Watch and listen here.

Giulietta Simionato is oddly out-of-sorts, but there are some interesting items here:

O Don Fatale (Giulietta Simionato)
Ella giammai m'amo (Nicola Zaccaria)
La luce langue  (Linda Vajna)
Questa o quella (Luciano Pavarotti)
Ave Maria (Gabriella Tucci)
Infelice, e tuo credevi (Nicola Zaccaria)
O patria mia (Gabriella Tucci)
Il lacerato spirito (Nicola Zaccaria)
Pace, pace mio Dio (Gabriella Tucci)
La donna e mobile (Luciano Pavarotti)

FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN ~ Marseille 1995

Above: Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the Kaiserin

Richard Strauss's masterpiece DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN in a performance from Marseille in 1995. Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Dame Gwyneth Jones head the cast. Watch and listen here.

Curtain call: Dame Gwyneth Jones

Cast:
Kaiserin: Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Kaiser: Horst Hoffmann
Färberin: Gwyneth Jones
Barak, der Färber: Jean-Philippe Lafont
Amme: Reinhild Runkel
Geisterbote: Malcolm Rivers
Stimme des Falken: Brigitte Anselmino
Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings: Alain Gabriel
Stimme von oben: Nathalie Stutzmann
Der Hüter der Schwelle: Artur Stefanowicz
Der Einäugige: Philippe Fourcade
Der Einarmige: Chris de Moor
Der Bucklige: Yvan Matiakh

Conductor: Friedrich Pleyer
Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opera de Marseille