Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier "Gala Performance in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and H. R. H. The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh". Bayerische Staatsoper - Münchener Opernfestspiele production. Directed by Rudolf Hartmann. BR rec. live at Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater, Munich, 1965-05-21.

• Cast: Fritz Wunderlich (Sänger), Claire Watson (Marschallin), Kurt Böhme (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), Hertha Töpper (Octavian), Otto Wiener (Herr von Faninal), Erika Köth (Sophie), Annelie Waas (Marianne Leitmetzerin), Gerhard Stolze (Valzacchi), Brigitte Fassbaender (Annina), Mino Yahia (Polizeikommissar), Franz Klarwein (Haushofmeister der Marschallin), Karl Ostertag (Haushofmeister bei Faninal), Joseph Knapp (Notar), Friedrich Lenz (Wirt) a. o., Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, cond. Joseph Keilberth
  • Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier op. 59

• Armin Eichholz in the Orfeo d'Or CD booklet: "The only applause to interrupt the performance was given to Fritz Wunderlich as the radiant 'Sänger' at the levée.")
• "Hamburger Abendblatt", 1965-05-22: "The Queen did not take the opera glasses from her eyes while Fritz Wunderlich was singing his lyric aria in Act One."
• Henrik Engelbrecht in Gramophone's "International Opera Collector", Spring 1998: "Here Wunderlich surpasses himself, singing with an almost diabolical ringing force right through to the point where he is interrupted by Baron Ochs; this aria is well worth the price of the three CDs alone."

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Orfeo d'Or C425 963D (3 CD)

Fritz Wunderlich Discography