Goetz: The Taming of the Shrew

[Alan Howe]

For opera-fans there is veritable feast to be had in the first official release of a mono 1955 recording of Goetz's The Taming of the Shrew on the Profil label...

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/SESSIONID/fb2168f227aec203db41480801eeeed3/classic/detail/-/art/Hermann-Goetz-Der-Widerspenstigen-Z%E4hmung/hnum/8749600

The cast features a classy group of singers of the period and the sound has come up really very acceptably indeed. A German opera for those allergic to Wagner, perhaps!

[Mark Thomas]

I have a different heritage performance issued a few years ago on the Preiser label. The opera is a real winner, everything which you'd expect from Goetz in terms of melody, lightness of touch and invention, but it's still a full blown opera, as opposed to operetta or singspiel. If you appreciate Peter Cornelius' slightly better known Der Barbier von Baghdad, then this will be right up your street.

[alberto]

I have just bought the (same as above, first post, 1955, Keilberth)  Goetz in an ultra cheap Membran (or "intensemedia"?) label box of 10 Cd, which contains four other operas of radio provenance:
Flotow Martha (1944, cond. Schuler with Erna Berger and Peter Anders
Nicolai Die lustigen Weiben von Windsor (1956, cond. Schuchter)
Lortzing Der Wildschutz (1956, cond. Schuchter)
              Zar und Zimmermann (1975, cond. Wallberg)