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The recording, made by Decca in the Sofiensaal. Vienna, with the Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, featured Gabriel Bacquier as Falstaff, Richard Stilwell as Ford, Max-René Cosotti as Fenton, Karan Armstrong as Alice Ford, Jutta-Renate Ihloff as Nanetta and Márta Szirmay as ...
The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962. Prior to 1961 the awards for operatic and choral performances were combined in a single award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral.
Best Opera Recording: Falstaff: Nominated Best Classical Performance – Choral (other than opera) Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand) Won 1968: Best Classical Performance – Orchestra: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor and Symphony No. 9 in D Major: Nominated Best Choral Performance (other than opera) Haydn: The ...
Falstaff (Italian pronunciation:) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare.
Verdi: Falstaff (Album) Nominated Best Opera Recording Nominated Best Classical Orchestral Recording Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67 (Album) Nominated 1985: Best Opera Recording Riccardo Muti Verdi: Ernani (Album) Nominated 1987: Luciano Pavarotti: Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (The Masked Ball) Nominated Best Classical Vocal Soloist ...
Music and Letters noted in its obituary of Elgar that though "a majority would call Falstaff his greatest work" most people would "say they like the Enigma best." [9] Even during Elgar's lifetime, the musical scholar Percy Scholes wrote of Falstaff that it was a "great work" but "so far as public appreciation goes, a comparative failure." [10]
The Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004) only released nine studio recordings over the course of his five-decade career. [1] He was famous for his elusiveness, often canceling concerts on short notice and appearing in only 96 orchestral concerts as well as about 620 opera performances. [2]
Solti's first recordings were as a piano accompanist, playing at sessions in Zürich for the violinist Georg Kulenkampff in 1947. [1] Decca's senior producer, Victor Olof, did not much admire Solti as a conductor [2] (nor did Walter Legge, Olof's opposite number at EMI's Columbia Records), [3] but Olof's younger colleague at Decca John Culshaw held Solti in high regard.