#51 Arabella (Strauss) - Lisa Della Casa, George London, Hilde Gueden, Anton Darmota

ARABELLA (1958)
RICHARD STRAUSS
GEORG SOLTI Conductor
Vienna Philharmonics

Arabella ... Lisa Della Casa
Zdenka ... Hilde Gueden
Mandryka ... George London
Matteo ... Anton Darmota
Grad Waldner ... Otto Edelmann
Adelaide ... Ira Malaniuk
Elemer ... Waldemar Kmentt
Dominik ... Eberhard Wächter
Lamoral ... Harald Prôglhôf
Die Fiakermilli ... Mimi Coertse
A fortune-teller ... Judith Hellwig

Kiri who? Della Casa rules! (includes alternative cover pictures and libretto)

#29 birgit nilsson in strauss

Salome (1961)

Salome - Birgit Nilsson

Herode - Gerhald Stolze

Herodias - Grace Hoffmann

Jokanaan - Eberhard Wächter

Georg Solti

Vienna Philharmonic

*****

Elektra (1967)

Elektra - Birgit Nilsson
Klytaemnestra - Regina Resnik
Chrysothemis - Marie Collier
Aegisth - Gerhald Stolze
Orest - Tom Krause

Georg Solti
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

*****

One word: gigantic!