STRAUSS, II, J: DIE FLEDERMAUS (COMPLETE OPERA PLUS BONUS GALA SCENE & BALLET MUSIC) - KARAJAN, VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (2 CDS)

Strauss (Johann II): Die Fledermaus

Gueden/ Resnik/ Kmentt
Waechter / Berry / Kunz /
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

“The performance has all the sparkle one could ask for. If anything Karajan is even more brilliant than before and the Decca recording scintillating. Hilde Gueden is a deliciously vivacious Rosalinde, a beautifully projected interpretation. The Karajan ‘gala performance’ featured Decca stars appearing in their turn at the cabaret -in the Orlovsky Ball sequence. This was a famous tradition of performances at the New York Met in the early years of the 20th Century” (Penguin Guide)