Goldmark Die Königin von Saba

[Alan Howe]

I understand that cpo are due to release Goldmark's marvellous opera in a recording made in Freiburg.  A Google search reveals that the production there starred the wonderfully named Thai tenor Nutthaporn Thammathi - who also has a wonderful voice, by the way!

[Claude Torres]

I understand that cpo are due to release Goldmark's marvellous opera in a recording made in Freiburg.  A Google search reveals that the production there starred the wonderfully named Thai tenor Nutthaporn Thammathi - who also has a wonderful voice, by the way!

After 2 releases of  this opera on CD (Hungaroton and Gala) I hope this time a DVD will be available in addition to the CPO release. (The trailer on YouTube is wonderful)

Claude

[adriano]

I think the 1980 Hungaroton recording will hardly be surpassed!

[Alan Howe]

You are 100% right, Adriano. The Hungaroton is a classic recording, wonderfully sung and (in its original LP incarnation) extremely well documented. It'll be hard, if not impossible to beat. But it'll be good to have a chance to hear it again...

[MartinH]

Meanwhile, The Cricket on the Hearth remains unrecorded...(:

[Alan Howe]

Probably got burnt waiting...

[Claude Torres]

Meanwhile, The Cricket on the Hearth remains unrecorded...(:

That's true for Das Heimchen am Herd (21. März 1896 Hofoper Wien)
Only Die Königin von Saba (10. März 1875 Hofoper Wien) and Merlin (19. Nov. 1886 Hofoper Wien) heve been recorded

But what about the other operas?

• Die Kriegsgefangenen (17. Jan. 1889 Hofoper Wien)
• Der Fremdling (1897)
• Götz von Berlichingen (16. Dez. 1902 Nationaloper Budapest)
• Ein Wintermärchen (2. Jan. 1908 Hofoper Wien)

Claude

[eschiss1]

BTW full score and parts of Heimchen am Herd seem to be in the archives of the Weimar theatre (see here.) I'd like to be positive the performing material exists for the other 4, but at least it definitely does for that one (1898 published prints/copies of manuscripts/etc. used for a April 10 1898 Weimar performance of the work.)

[BerlinExpat]

Götz von Berlichingen in the new veresion from 1910 was performed in the seasons 2011-12 and 2012-13 at the Eduard-von-Winterstein Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz, a small theatre that has presented a number of forgotten Romantic operas over the years. If I remember correctly one scene was cut from either act 1 or act 2 and the performance lasted 128 minutes  .

[BerlinExpat]

According to Freiburg Opera the recording of Die Königin von Saba should appear on CPO this spring.
The next in the series from Freiburg will be Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's I gioielli della Madonna which has its premìére on 5th March this year. That fits very well into the CPO Wolf-Ferrari collection and it's high time there was a modern recording of the opera. The excellent recent production in Bratislava was spoiled by cutting out the introduction before act 2!

[Alan Howe]

It's only on two CDs:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/karl-goldmark-die-koenigin-von-saba/hnum/8455682
Does this mean it's cut?

[MartinH]

It has to be. Each of the three discs on the Hungaroton recording clock in at 64min and some seconds. Total is 192 minutes or so. Dividing it into two disks would make 86+ min/disk and that's not likely, or possible. What a shame if it's true. Of course, cutting operas is nothing new, but I don't like it.

[Alan Howe]

Thought so.

[Wheesht]

Technically it is possible these days to have CDs with a playing time of 86 to 88 minutes, these are the playing times on two CDs on the Bear Family label that I have in my collection ... so there may be hope.

[Alan Howe]

Can't see it myself.