First, a uncommon Lucia Popp-Christian Thielemann collaboration; then Soile Isokoski performed by Marek Janowski; and eventually, briefly rising turn-of-this-century star Alexandra van der Weth pursued by Johan Botha’s heroic Apollo.
Whereas Popp earlier recorded the opera with Bernard Haitink, right this moment’s efficiency options the Czech soprano only a few years earlier than her early dying in a Geneva staging led by Strauss specialist Thielemann comparatively early in his opera profession. Her Gaea, Polish contralto Jadwiga Rappé, additionally turns up eight years later for a Paris live performance efficiency with Isokoski, whose pretty Strauss recording, which incorporates the Vier Letzte Lieder, is one I return to usually.
Within the late Nineties and early 2000s German soprano van der Weth was one of many opera world’s most buzzed-about younger singers following her 1997 breakthrough in Christof Loy’s staging of Massenet’s Manon in Düsseldorf. Her repertoire ranged from Norma and Lucia di Lammermoor to Daphne, Lulu, and Boulevard Solitude.
Santa Fe featured her as Lucia whereas Lyric Opera of Chicago mounted a revival of La Traviata for her in 2003. I didn’t have a recollection of her having appeared on the Met, however positive sufficient she dropped into the venerable Franco Zeffirelli La bohème staging as Musetta reverse Pamela Armstrong and Alfredo Portilla for simply 4 performances in late 2001.
Two years later after the Chicago Violetta, she had a vocal disaster at simply 35 and withdrew for a number of years. She returned a number of years later showing solely with smaller German firms.
Strauss: Daphne
Daphne: Lucia Popp
Gaea: Jadwiga Rappé
Mägde: Martina Musacchio / Janeen Franz
Apollo: Michael Pabst
Leukippos: Claes Hakan Ahnsjö
Peneios: Hans Tschammer
Schäfer: Leonard Graus / Brett Martin / Wolfgang Barta / Marc Mazuir
Choeur du Grand Theatre de Geneve
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Christian Thielemann
Grand Theatre de Geneve
12 January 1991
Broadcast
Daphne: Soile Isokoski
Gaea: Jadwiga Rappé
Mägde: Jialin Zhang & Gaële le Roi
Apollo: John Horton Murray
Leukippos: Torsten Kerl
Peneios: Peter Rose
Schäfer: Bernard Polisset, Charles Alves da Cruz, Jacques Scamps & Mario Castagnetti
Choeur et Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Conductor : Marek Janowski
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
26 November 1999
Broadcast
Daphne: Alexandra von der Weth
Gaea: Jane Henschel
Mägde: Rebecca Nash / Gweneth-Ann Jeffers
Apollo: Johan Botha
Leukippos: Roberto Saccà
Peneios: Alfred Reiter
Schäfer: James Rutherford / Peter Auty / Graeme Broadbent / Darren Jeffery
Conductor: Stefan Soltesz
Royal Opera, Covent Backyard
15 Might 2002
Broadcast
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