Overture: 0.00 Act 1: 00.06.08 Act 2: 01.08.49
This recording is something of a “troubled child”. It circulated for many years on open reel and was originally released on CD claiming to be from San Francisco on 29 November 1968, though the opera that night was Madama Butterfly, and Fidelio was not performed there in 1968. The role of the Second Prisoner was given as Robert Goodloe, but it is in fact Clifford Harvuot. It’s now generally accepted that this performance took place in New York on 2 January 1971 in a run of performances of a new production to mark the bicentenary of Beethoven’s birth.
7 сен 2024