Mozart - Don Giovanni - Siepi, Grümmer, Schwarzkopf, Edelmann - Furtwängler 1953Performer: Deszö Ernster, Walter Berry, Erna Berger, Anton Dermota, Elisabeth Grümmer, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Cesare Siepi
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
...from 1953 shows that Siepi's uncanny assurance from the outset in conveying the heartlessness of this part was always there from the very beginning. Whether in the seductive legato of his "Deh vieni alla finestra" or his hair-raising sadism with Leporello and the beleaguered Masetto, he shows effortless mastery over the full range of this two-faced monster.
Surrounded by the cream of the famed post-war Mozart ensemble from Vienna, his worthy colleagues include the fierce Donna Elvira of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the refreshingly vulnerable Donna Anna of Elisabeth Gruemmer, the perennially youthful Zerlina of Erna Berger, a Leporello with a truly grand voice (for a change) in Otto Edelmann, the Vienna stalwart Anton Dermota as Ottavio, and on and on. We even have a future star for Masetto, Walter Berry --Amazon customer
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