Ok...i thought this would be an interesting topic that people would hopefully comment on.
Last year the Royal Opera House created their own recording label 'The Royal Opera Heritage Series' to sell their live recordings.
Here is a list of them in case you haven't seen it:
Lucia Di Lammermoore 1959: Joan Sutherland, Joao Gibin, John Shaw, Joseph Rouleau, Kenneth Mac Donald, Margreta Elkins, Robert Bowman. Serafin.
Don Giovanni 1962: Cesare Siepi, Geraint Evans, Leyla Gencer, Sena Jurinac, Mirella Freni, Richard Lewis. David Ward, Robert Savoie. Solti.
Madama Butterfly 1957: Victoria de los Angeles, John Lanigan, Barbara Howitt, Geraint Evans, David Tree, Michael Langdon, Joyce Livingstone, David Allen, Ronald Firmager, Harry Gawler. Kempe.
Tosca 1957: Zinka Milanov, Franco Corelli, Gian Giacomo Guelfi, Michael Langdon, David Tree. Gibson.
Elektra 1958: Gerda Lammers, Hedwig Muller-Butow, Georgine von Milinkovic, Otakar Kraus, Edgar Evans, David Kelly. Kempe.
Don Carlo 1958: Jon Vickers, Gré Brouwenstijn, Boris Christoff, Tito Gobbi, Michael Langdon, Joseph Rouleau. Giulini.
Otello 1955: Ramón Vinay, Gré Brouwenstijn, Otakar Kraus, John Lanigan, Noreen Berry, Raymond Nilsson, Marian Nowakowski, Michael Langdon, Forbes Robinson. Kubelík
With new ones coming out at the end of March:
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg 1997: Gosta Winbergh, Nancy Gustafson, Catherine Wyn- Rogers, Herbert Lippert, Gwynne Howell, Thomas Allen, John Tomlinson, Alasdair Elliot, Richard Lloyd-Morgan, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Grant Dickson, Robbin Leggate, Paul Crook, Simon Wilding, Geoffrey Moses, Michael Druiett. Haitink
Un ballo in maschera 1962: Amy Shuard, Jon Vickers, Ettore Bastianini, Regina Resnik, Joan Carlyle, Michael Langdon, David Kelly, Victor Godfrey, John Kollman, George Barker. Downes.
Alceste 1981: Philip Gelling, Maldwyn Davies, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Matthew Best, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Philip Gelling, Elaine Mary Hall, Janice Hooper-Roe, Mark Curtis, Matthew Best. Harpsichord Continuo: Maurits Sillem. Mackerras.
Okay...those are all the current relases. I think the whole concept of relasing the live recordings is wonderful as i love the live feel to them with the buzz of the audience, but i find the choices slightly odd. So far there have been no live recordings of Pavarotti which i am really dissapointed about considering it would have been an excellent way to commemorate his amazing talent and incredible career. Likewise there are no recordings of Maria Callas which i'm sure the ROH must have, for example the live recording of her final Tosca performance (already avaliable but difficult to get hold of) would be a brilliant document as her final operatic appearence. I've just picked these 2 artists as an example...but would love to know what you think.
Are there any particular performances you would like them to release either on this CD series or the DVD series?
Off the top of my head here's what i'd say:
Faust - the Alagne and Gheorghiu production from 2006 which was broadcast on TV
La Rondine - the fantastic modernised production with Alagna/Gheorghiu from 2002 or Kauffman/Gheorghiu from 2004
1984 - again it was shown on TV and had the very talented Simon Keenlyside in the main role from 2005
Tosca - Pavarotti's final performance at the ROH in zeffirelli's legendary and beautiful production of Tosca...i'm HOPING so much that this exists
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Roh Heritage Series And Roh Dvd Releases What do you think??#2 Guest_Guest_richard_*_*Posted 07 March 2008 - 11:19 AM Are there any particular performances you would like them to release either on this CD series or the DVD series? On DVD the ROH should issue the 1992 production of Britten's Death in Venice with Philip Langridge at the absolute height of his powers as Aschenbach, and a production - a revised one of the original 1973 production with John Piper designs, but also with evocative use of 1909-1910 photographs of Venice, the period of the story, by Mariano Fortuny - that IMHO was the finest ever done (notwithstanding the brilliant ENO one last year), and as Michael Kennedy said in his review in OPERA 'one of the Royal Opera's great evenings.' On both DVD/CD one of Nilsson's great Elektras, the Kleiber OTELLO with Domingo, and the Solti Ring Cycle, from the days when the Ring was staged properly. #3 Guest_Jez_*Posted 17 March 2008 - 08:36 PM
There are so many performances that were broadcast on Radio 3 - but not sure whether ROH or BBC have them stored in an archive - my personal favourite is a 1992 Die Frau Ohne Schatten conducted by Haitink with Gwyneth Jones in scintillating form as the Dyer's Wife, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Jane Henschel, Paul Frey and Franz Grundheber (I am lucky enough to have been given a recording of it). Haitink and his orchestra were amazing that night, one of those rare occasions when everything comes together, and all the singers were perfectly cast and in fine form. It's the one recording of this opera I come back to again and again.I would love the ROH to release commercial versions of these archive treasures so at least they would earn some money from these recordings instead of being "bootlegged" - but obviously some of the operas are not sufficiently "commercial" to sell enough copies to justify release.The ENO has similar gems which were broadcast at the time - in particular with Valerie Masterson and Janet Baker for example, but again, I doubt these will ever reach the light of day. Valerie Masterson's Juliet and Manon are similar treasures in my collection that I wouldn't be without, even in the imperfect sound that they are. If anyone has a copy of Josephine Barstow's ENO Arabella let me know!!!
#4 Guest_mushykins_*Posted 19 March 2008 - 11:15 AM
Jez - I would be very interested to obtain a copy of that 1992 Die Frau Ohne Schatten conducted by Haitink with Gwyneth Jones, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Jane Henschel, Paul Frey and Franz Grundheber. would you be able to email me directly about this - mushykins@hotmail.com
Many thanks, Tom. #5 Guest_jamesrhblack_*Posted 06 April 2008 - 05:44 PM QUOTE(Jez @ Mar 17 2008, 08:36 PM)  There are so many performances that were broadcast on Radio 3 - but not sure whether ROH or BBC have them stored in an archive - my personal favourite is a 1992 Die Frau Ohne Schatten conducted by Haitink with Gwyneth Jones in scintillating form as the Dyer's Wife, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Jane Henschel, Paul Frey and Franz Grundheber (I am lucky enough to have been given a recording of it). Haitink and his orchestra were amazing that night, one of those rare occasions when everything comes together, and all the singers were perfectly cast and in fine form. It's the one recording of this opera I come back to again and again.I would love the ROH to release commercial versions of these archive treasures so at least they would earn some money from these recordings instead of being "bootlegged" - but obviously some of the operas are not sufficiently "commercial" to sell enough copies to justify release.The ENO has similar gems which were broadcast at the time - in particular with Valerie Masterson and Janet Baker for example, but again, I doubt these will ever reach the light of day. Valerie Masterson's Juliet and Manon are similar treasures in my collection that I wouldn't be without, even in the imperfect sound that they are. If anyone has a copy of Josephine Barstow's ENO Arabella let me know!!! #6 Guest_jamesrhblack_*Posted 06 April 2008 - 05:46 PM
I would hope to see the 1981 / 82 Semele with Valerie Masterson, Robert Tear and Kathleen Kuhlmann conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras (the production was staged to commemorate the opening of the first theatre on the site I believe) and the 1982 / 1983 The Carmelites with Regine Crespin, Felicity Lott, Valerie Masterson and Pauline Tinsley conducted by Michel Plasson, one of the really great nights in the old house.
What do other readers feel about these as priorities?
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