The women seem to be named Lucy Peacock and Ziggy Donut.. Funny names but they sing very well. Winbergh was always one of my favorite Mozart tenors. He's more manly than most. I only heard Sotin live when he was trying to move up to heldenbaritone. He's a fabulous Sarastro here. And what can you say about Prey? No one was ever better.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE - METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: 02/19/1967. Review of Speight Jenkins Jr., Special to the Times Herald: "Now to the singers. First, foremost and almost unbelievably fine was Hermann Prey's Papageno. Herr Prey...has a heavier baritone than is normally the bird catcher's, yet he sang with such control, such finesse and such extravagant musicianship as to erase comparisons. Prey's acting, whether sitting on the apron with legs dangling into the orchestra pit for his first act "Der Vogelgänger bin ich ja" or his "recognition scene" with Papagena, made you understand why the librettist, Schikaneder, wrote the role for himself." Review of Alan Rich in the World Journal-Tribune: "Hermann Prey's Papageno was a total joy, sung with suavity and wit and the kind of tastefulness one usually can only dream about hearing; acted, after a little strenuousness at the beginning, with a full repertory of genuinely comic and touching inventions." (Source: BiblioTech PRO V3.2b - Metropolitan Opera Archives.)
A DREAM COME TRUE!!! HERMANN PREY LIVE IN "DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE"!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! [:D]
The women seem to be named Lucy Peacock and Ziggy Donut.. Funny names but they sing very well. Winbergh was always one of my favorite Mozart tenors. He's more manly than most. I only heard Sotin live when he was trying to move up to heldenbaritone. He's a fabulous Sarastro here. And what can you say about Prey? No one was ever better.
There was ONE Papageno better than Hermann Prey: Erich Kunz. Look him up.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE - METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: 02/19/1967.
Review of Speight Jenkins Jr., Special to the Times Herald:
"Now to the singers. First, foremost and almost unbelievably fine was Hermann Prey's Papageno. Herr Prey...has a heavier baritone than is normally the bird catcher's, yet he sang with such control, such finesse and such extravagant musicianship as to erase comparisons. Prey's acting, whether sitting on the apron with legs dangling into the orchestra pit for his first act "Der Vogelgänger bin ich ja" or his "recognition scene" with Papagena, made you understand why the librettist, Schikaneder, wrote the role for himself."
Review of Alan Rich in the World Journal-Tribune:
"Hermann Prey's Papageno was a total joy, sung with suavity and wit and the kind of tastefulness one usually can only dream about hearing; acted, after a little strenuousness at the beginning, with a full repertory of genuinely comic and touching inventions."
(Source: BiblioTech PRO V3.2b - Metropolitan Opera Archives.)