Among the goals for my Mixcloud page are more Mozart, and to pay tribute to more of our living legends. This 1959 performance of Così fan tutte from the Salzburger Festspiele accomplishes both. Still among us are Christa Ludwig (still quite active at 87), Nicolai Gedda (90), and Rolando Panerai (who turns 91 this week). We can also celebrate the centennial of Karl Dönch’s birth in 1915.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Phiharmoniker
Karl Böhm, conductor
Residenzhof
Salzburger Festspiele
09 August 1959
Fiordiligi – Irmgard Seefried
Dorabella – Christa Ludwig
Ferrando – Nicolai Gedda
Guglielmo – Rolando Panerai
Despina – Graziella Sciutti
Don Alfonso – Karl Dönch
The few Mozart operas on my site have been quite popular, particularly the 1976 Paris performance of Le nozze di Figaro: it has been “favorited” 21 times, more than any of my other uploads. Together with the 1975 Paris Don Giovanni and the 2010 Edinburgh Idomeneo, they have chalked up more than 1,000 “listens.” I have a performance of La clemeneza di Tito on the calendar, but what other Mozart works would you like to hear?
I also welcome input for singers you’d like to hear more of, past and present.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
