Composer: Franz Lehár
Performer: Dirk Bogarde, Robert Poulton, Rudolf Schasching, Elżbieta Szmytka, Thomas Hampson, Kurt Azesberger, Dame Felicity Lott, John Aler, Stuart MacIntyre, Howard Quilla Croft, Christopher Parke, Philippa Daly, Paula O’Sullivan, Michelle Walton, Joanna Campion, Anna O’Byrne, Alison Duguid, Glyndebourne Chorus
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029523104
Release: 1994
Size: 411 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The Merry Widow, (Live at Royal Festival Hall, 1993)
Act I
01. Introduction. “Verehrteste Damen und Herren”
02. Narration. “You are looking at a man with no axe to grind”
03. Duet. “So kommen Sie”
04. Narration. “How is your German, by the way?”
05. Entrance Song. “Bitte, meine Herr’n”
06. Narration. “Before you could say joint bank account…”
07. Song. “O Vaterland”
08. Narration. “After which he had forty winks on a sofa”
09. Charms of Domestic Life. “Ja was? Ein trautes Zimmerlein”
10. Narration. “At this point, Kromow has found the fan”
11. Ball Music – Finale. “Damenwahl!”
12. “Oh kommet doch, oh kommt…”
13. “Der junge Mann tanzt Polka”
Act II
14. Introduction and Dance. “Ich bitte, hier jetzt zu verweilen” – Vilja Song. “Es lebt eine Vilja”
15. Narration. “Whenever I hear that sound, I’m carried back to that summer evening”
16. The Stupid Rider Song. “Heia, Mädel, aufgeschaut”
17. Narration. “You remember the fan?”
18. March-Septet. “Wie die Weiber man behandelt?”
19. Narration. “Those were the days when women in Paris were only good for two things…”
20. Duet. “Mein Freund, Vernunft!” – Romance. “Wie eine Rosenknospe”
21. Narration. “Briefly Valencienne and Camille entered the summer house”
22. Finale. “Ha! Ha! Wir fragen was man von uns will?”
23. Narration. “Have you got the picture?”
24. “Den Herrschaften hab’ich was zu erzahlen!”
25. “Ganz nach Pariser Art!”
26. “Es waren zwei Königskinder”
27. Narration. “As we go into extra-time…”
Act III
28. Dance Scene
29. Song of the Grisettes. “Ja, wir sind es, die Grisetten”
30. Narration. “Pontevedrian high society, it seemed, was determined to go out in a blaze of glory and frilly underwear”
31. Duet. “Lippen schweigen”
32. Narration. “As the Pontevedrian proverb has it…”
33. Closing Song. “Ja, das Stadium der Weiber ist schwerz”
