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Seefestspiele Mörbisch
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Kevin Clarke
Operetta Research Center
7 February, 2019
Ah yes, another Fledermaus recording. As if there aren’t enough already, right? Well, actually, this one from the NDR Radiophilharmonie and conducted by Lawrence Foster is quite fun to listen to. Very alive and energetic, with some joyous casting choices: among them Laura Aikin as a American Rosalinde with some fun dialogue moments on top of great singing. But how does this double CD on Pentatone compare to previous “classic” recordings? Is it possible to say what the “best” Fledermaus on disc is?
he “Fledermaus” recording on Pentatone, released in November 2018.
Obviously, any such choice of “a favorite” is going to depend on your preferences with regard to voices and styles. While the 1874 world premiere at the Theater an der Wien did not include a single (!) opera singer from the neighboring Court Opera, or from any other opera company, nearly all available recordings today are entirely cast with opera singers and big symphony orchestras.
Drawing from the newspaper “Die Bombe” by László von Frecskay, showing Marie Geistinger as Rosalinde, Gabriels and Jani Szika as Eisenstein in “Die Fledermaus,” 1874.
Whether it’s the NDR Radiophilharmonie, as in this latest release,
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“In der Heimat blüh’n die Rosen – nicht für mich den Heimatlosen”, sings Count Boleslav in his first big solo in Polnische Hochzeit: “In my home country roses are blossoming, but not for me, I am without a homeland.” These are words from the 1937 show, premiered in Switzerland, that could just as easily come from the biography of the composer himself.
Joseph Beer in Vienna
Joseph Beer was born in 1908 in Lemberg (Lwów, Lviv). Back then, this was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, but 10 years later it was to become one of the most important cities of Poland. Beer studied in Vienna, after the “Anschluss” in 1938 he fled to France.
Joseph Beer with his siblings
He first went to Paris. Helped by the director of the Théâtre du Châtelet he earned his living by writing music for the film Festival du Monde. After failing to reach the Unites States, he ended up in Nice. During his years in hiding Beer composed Stradella in Venice there, an opera in the verismo style (premiere Zurich, 1949), which turned out to be his final one. After the war Beer got the news that his parents were killed in Auschwitz. Also his friend, mentor and librettist of Polnische Hochzeit, Fritz Löhner-Beda, had not survived the camps.
Fritz Löhner-Beda