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On Jun 3, 9:20 am, "premierop...@aol.com" <premierop...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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."

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