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> On Jun 3, 9:20 am, "premierop...@aol.com" <premierop...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> Is this what you meant, Ed?:
>
> Remember when you and I were advised to please ignore, demonize,
> condemn, denigrate, and reject and whathaveyou (swiftly and
> wholesale) them records by (or any live appearance containing) soprano
> Cheryl Studer?
> Well, considering the recording industry's Grand Meltdown (not lacking
> the
> "Grand Manner" you so prefer -- but do you really?) of new opera
> recordings...take a Long-and-Hard (as some of you like it) look at
> the following repertorium --- BECUZ IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
>
> * Title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, rec 8/90, London SO,
> Marin
> * Hanna Glawari in Lehar's Lustige Witwe, rec 1/94, Vienna PO,
> Gardiner
> * Countess in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, rec 1-2/94, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Countess in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, rec 5/91, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Title role in Rossini's Semiramide, rec 7/92, London SO, Marin
> * Florinda in Schubert's Fierrabras, rec 5/88, Chamber Orch of
> Europe,
> Abbado
> * Title role in R. Strauss' Salome, rec 12/90, Deutsche Oper Berlin,
> Sinopoli
> * Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, rec 6/93, Metropolitan Opera, Levine
> * Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto Act III, rec 9/91, Metropolitan Opera,
> Levine
> * Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, rec 5/93, Opéra Bastille, Chung
> * Violetta in Verdi's Traviata, rec 1/91, Metropolitan Opera, Levine
> * Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, rec '88, Philharmonia, Sinopoli
> * Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, rec '89, Bayreuth, Sinopoli
> * Senta in Wagner's fliegende Holländer, rec 1/91, Deutsche Oper
> Berlin, Sinopoli
> * Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, rec 5/89, Metropolitan Opera,
> Levine
> * Title role in Floyd's Susannah, rec 3/94, Opéra de Lyon, Nagano
> * Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, rec 2/91, Toulouse, Plasson
> * Salomé in Massenet's Hérodiade, rec 11-12/94, Toulouse, Plasson
> * Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, rec 9/90, Vienna PO, Muti
> * Konstanze in Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail, rec 4/91, Vienna
> Symphony, Weil
> * Queen of the Night in Mozart's Zauberflöte, rec 7/89, ASMF,
> Marriner
> * Giulietta in Offenbach's Contes d'Hoffmann, rec 87/88/89, Dresden
> Staatskapelle, Tate
> * Matilde in Rossini's Guglielmo Tell, rec 12/88, La Scala, Muti
> * Madama Cortese in Rossini's Viaggio a Reims, rec 10/92, Berlin PO,
> Abbado
> * Title role in Spohr's Jessonda, rec '84, ORF Orchestra, Albrecht
> * Chrysothemis in R. Strauss' Elektra, rec 1/90, Bavarian RSO,
> Sawallisch
> * Chrysothemis in R. Strauss' Elektra, rec 6/89, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Empress in R. Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten, rec 2-12/87, Bavarian
> RSO, Sawallisch
> * Empress in R. Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten, rec '92, Vienna PO,
> Solti
> * Title role in Verdi's Aida, rec 6/94, Covent Garden, Downes
> * Odabella in Verdi's Attila, rec 6-7/89, La Scala, Muti
> * Odabella in Verdi's Attila, rec 6/90, La Scala, Muti
> * Elena in Verdi's Vespri Siciliani, rec 12/89-1/90, La Scala, Muti
> * Drolla in Wagner's Die Feen, rec 7/83, Bavarian RSO, Sawallisch
> * Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, rec 6/90, Bayreuth, Schneider
> * Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, rec '90, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger, rec 4/93, Bavarian State Opera,
> Sawallisch
> * Irene in Wagner's Rienzi, rec 7/83, Bavarian State Opera,
> Sawallisch
> * Ortlinde in Wagner's Walküre, rec 8/81, Dresden Staatskapelle,
> Janowski
> * Sieglinde in Wagner's Walküre, rec 2-3/88, Bavarian RSO, Haitink
> * Zemlinsky's Der Geburtstagder Infantin, rec 83, Berlin RSO,
> Albrecht
> * Coloratura Arias by Bellini (Sonnambula/Norma), Verdi (Traviata/
> Trovatore), Donizetti (Lucia/Lucrezia Borgia), Rossini (Barbiere/
> Semiramide), rec 4/89, Munich RSO, Ferro
> * Mozart Arias (Entführung/Zauberflöte/Idomeneo/Nozze/Giovanni/
> Clemenza/Cosi), rec 9/89, ASMF, Marriner
> * R. Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder/Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder/Isolde's
> Liebestod, rec 1/93, Dresden Staatskapelle, Sinopoli
> * Isolde's Liebestod, rec 1/88, Bavarian RSO, Tate
> * Wagner Gala (Tannhäuser/Lohengrin/Meistersinger/Walküre), rec
> 12/93,
> Berlin PO, Abbado
> * First Europakonzert - in Prague (Mozart: "Non mi dir"/"Ch'io mi
> scordi di te-Non temer amato bene"), rec 5/91, Berlin PO, Abbado
> * Covent Garden Gala (Otello/Traviata/Fledermaus), rec 7/88, Covent
> Garden, Barker
> * Sacred Works (Bach/Schubert/Mendelssohn/Handel/Mozart/Gounod/Faure/
> Poulenc/Bernstein/Bruch), rec 3/91, London SO, Marin
> * Samuel Barber Songs, rec 9/92, Browning (R.I.P.), Emerson String
> Quartet
> * Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, rec 8/91, Vienna PO, Levine
> * Beethoven in Berlin (Ah! Perfido/Choral Fantasy/Egmont), rec 12/91,
> Berlin PO, Abbado
> * Brahms' German Requiem, rec 10/92, Berlin PO, Abbado
> * Schubert Lieder, rec 1/90, Gage
> * Salzburg Recital (R. Strauss/Schubert/Debussy), rec 8/92, Gage
> * Mahler's Klagende Lied, rec 11/90, Philharmonia, Sinopoli
> * Mahler's Symphony No. 2, rec 11/92, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Mahler's Symphony No. 8, rec 11-12/90, Philharmonia, Sinopoli
> * Mahler's Symphony No. 8, rec 1/94, Berlin PO, Abbado
> * Verdi's Requiem, rec 6/87, La Scala, Muti
> * Verdi's Requiem, rec 11/91, Vienna PO, Abbado
> * Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, rec 4/89, Philadelphia Orchestra, Muti
> * Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, rec 1/03, Philharmonie der Nationen,
> Frantz
> * Bruckner's Mass in F Min/Mozart's Vespers, rec 3/77, MIT Choral
> Society, Oliver
> * Donizetti's Requiem, rec 1/84, Bamberg SO, Gómez-Martínez
> * von Schweinitz's Messe Op. 21, rec 7/84, RSO Berlin, Albrecht
> * R. Strauss Choral Works, rec 9/84, RIAS Kammerchor, Gronostay,
> Creed.
>
> The world of Opera and of serious music seriously delivered remains
> indebted to the soprano for her important and prestigious documented
> legacy, a legacy which can now be safely regarded as Gold Standard.
> Not since her heyday has anyone come close to making such an
> indelible and electrifying impression.  No one.
>
> Thank you. Thank you for a most varied, exemplary, and unforgettable
> legacy, a legacy of exceptional quality and distinction (and without
> crossover charlatanism). Thank you for uncompromising Artistry of
> uncommon intelligence and instinct - the work of a consummate being.
> Thank you for Dedication, Seriousness, and Integrity. Thank you for
> remaining True to your self, to the artform (on life-support as it
> is...and counting down), and to music. Good Music. Thank you for a
> Universe of Sound and Texture and Expression and Communication all of
> your own. Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for High
> Individuality. And (to boot) individuality within the bondage of and
> respect for the Tradition. And thank you too, Universal, EMI and
> Sony, for having had the foresight (to bypass the anatomical, also
> prefixed with fore, since we are people of such impeccable taste, in
> life and
> art) to recognize and capture genius in our midst while the going was
> good (now that these dinosaurs' [delusional] populist causes have
> caused them to trim....ouch....their future....for that squeaky clean
> look and sound....and potent[ial] self-extinction).
>
> "LA ÚLTIMA que ríe, ríe mejor."