In the first of two programs of operatic prologues, we hear the Prologue to Monteverdi’s Orfeo, the Prologue to Pagliacci, and the Prologue to Götterdämmerung.
Prologues – Part I
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Playlist:
12:00 pm
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Overture (excerpt)
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
- CD/Album: Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80544
- Release Year: 2000
12:02 pm
- L'Orfeo: Toccata; Prologo
- Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
- Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
- Soloists: Lynne Dawson, soprano
- Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
- CD/Album: Claudio Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
- Record co./Cat #: Archiv 419250
- Release Year: 1987
12:10 pm
- Pagliacci: Prologue
- Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Soloists: Lawrence Tibbett, baritone
- Conductor: Rosario Bourdon
- CD/Album: Lawrence Tibbett Gershwin - Rossini - Verdi - Bizet
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 7808
- Release Year: 1989
12:19 pm
- Götterdämmerung: Prologue
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Soloists: Birgit Nilsson, soprano ; Wolfgang Windgassen, tenor ; Helen Watts, contralto ; Grace Hoffman, mezzo-soprano ; Anita Välkki, soprano
- Conductor: Sir Georg Solti
- CD/Album: Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung
- Record co./Cat #: London 414115
- Release Year: 1965