2CD - ADD - German - 73'56, 66'30
Berlin Classics Release 2005
Performers: Gottlob Frick (Bass); Marianne Schech (Soprano); Rudolf Schock (Tenor); Sieglinde Wagner (Alto); Fritz Wunderlich (Tenor); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone)
Conductor: Franz Konwitschny
Ensemble: Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra
This is a truly stellar cast, featuring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role, with the participation of such important singers as Gottlob Frick and Rudolf Schock; but what may by the main attraction is the casting of Fritz Wunderlich, whose tragic early death robbed the world of a master performer, and whose reputation has only grown in the nearly forty years since his passing. Any opera lover will relish hearing him in this masterpiece!
