"Der Rosenkavalier"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Does the sadface denote your displeasure at the lack of castrati for modern performances?

No, just the fact that they had them at all.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Don't forget to book your tickets for Opera North's production this autumn:

https://www.operanorth.co.uk/product...-rosenkavalier

I'm delighted that they are actually going to stage it.

[Tetrachord]

I thought they were replacing castrati in many instances.

With counter-tenors? You bet. I think the tendency to use Altos is possibly a reflection of the shortage of excellent counter-tenors who can really act!!

[Richard Tarleton]

With counter-tenors? You bet. I think the tendency to use Altos is possibly a reflection of the shortage of excellent counter-tenors who can really act!!

The great Susan Graham (Octavian the first time I saw Rosenkavalier), has a funny encore song about how annoying it is for mezzos to keep finding their best parts taken by counter-tenors - the name David Daniels is mentioned.

LMP - at least the composer in Capricchio is a tenor, and in with a chance

[gradus]

Such a pity that Strauss never extracted the Italian tenor's aria from Act 1 Rosenkavalier as a separate concert piece, well worth hearing in itself.
Here's Helge Rosvaenge, an old recording but sung wonderfully well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXbqpJzW3yE

[doversoul1]

With counter-tenors? You bet. I think the tendency to use Altos is possibly a reflection of the shortage of excellent counter-tenors who can really act!!

James Bowman, Andreas Scholl, David Daniels to begin with, as for younger generation; Bejun Mehta, Lawrence Zazzo, Iestyn Davies, Mathew White, Max Emanuel Cencic, and Philip Jaroussky to name but a few….?

The late Alan Curtis and Christopher Hogwood both seemed to have preferred mezzo-soprano ('ladies' they called them) for the roles originally sung by castrati but that was the matter of the voice rather than of acting abilities.

[Flosshilde]

James Bowman, Andreas Scholl, David Daniels to begin with, as for younger generation;

Oh dear - I tend to think of David Daniels as being 'the younger generation'

[doversoul1]

Oh dear - I tend to think of David Daniels as being 'the younger generation'

…the next generation? (I know the feeling….)

[Richard Tarleton]

James Bowman is 74 - a lot older than the rest. I first saw him in the late 60s. A terrific actor. I was impressed with A Scholl's acting in a concert performance of Saul - didn't just stand there and sing.

[Tetrachord]

James Bowman is 74 - a lot older than the rest. I first saw him in the late 60s. A terrific actor. I was impressed with A Scholl's acting in a concert performance of Saul - didn't just stand there and sing.

What a voice Scholl has!!! I wouldn't care if he'd just "stand there and sing"!!! I was in Arhuss in Denmark last year and happened to go into a very old cathedral there. They had a replica organ of the type Bach would have used and also there were notices all over the church about the upcoming appearance (for Easter) of Andreas Scholl. I had a conversation with a woman in the cathedral who was a tourist guide and when I commented on how fortunate for audiences to be having that great counter-tenor she looked blankly at me and said, "I've never heard of him"!!!

[BBMmk2]

Andreas Scholl, is one of my favourites!! :)

[Keraulophone]

the Italian tenor's aria ... an old recording but sung wonderfully well:

Rosvaenge ideally cast; here's another gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd0DzMb7W4E

Italian Singer- Fritz Wunderlich
Baron Ochs- Kurt Böhme
Orchestra of the Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires / Heinz Wallberg

Buenos Aires, 8 October 1961

[gradus]

A gem and how! What singing, many thanks for reminding me and brightening the morning.

[Keraulophone]

This morning is especially bright, being the day after the term before.

[Tetrachord]

Can you people recommend the best "Rosenkavalier" conducted by Carlos Kleiber please, as there seem to be a few available from what I can see (through Amazon).