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Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
(more) »rank: 3514starring: Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarott, Maralin Niska, Ingvar Wixell, James Levine
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Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Bohm, Berry, Grist, Mathis, Wixell, Watson, Kelemen, Bence, Salzburg Festpiele
(more) »rank: 87429starring: Walter Berry, Reri Grist, Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingvar Wixell, Claire Watson
directed by: Günther Rennert
:Description:This production created for the opening of the Salzburg Festival in 1966, which remained on the programme for five years, was Karl Böhm’s last Salzburg Figaro. After multiple tries to stage Figaro at the Salzburg Festival in the 1950's and 60's, the successful team Karl Böhm/Günther Rennert mounted this production with new décor, costumes by Rudolf Heinrich and with a practically new, young cast of singers. It was not only the celebrated highlight of the festival summer 1966 but also became a ‘standard for Mozart’ – that at least was the headline the German critic and future director of the Stuttgart Opera, Wolfram ...
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Verdi - Rigoletto / Chailly, Pavarotti, Wixell, Gruberova, Vienna Philharmonic
(more) »rank: 104978starring: Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Luciano Pavarotti, Victoria Vergara, Ferruccio Furlanetto
directed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
: :This extraordinarily powerful 1983 production may be the best-sung performance by Luciano Pavarotti on DVD, but when acting values are counted in, Ingvar Wixell manages to outshine the tenor star. Verdi gave the Duke two of Italian opera's most brilliant arias ('Questa o quella' and 'La donna e mobile'), but he gave the deformed jester Rigoletto a depth and complexity of character that is reflected in music of great variety and enormous emotional impact: the cruel mockery of the opening scene, the self-doubts inspired by his dialogue with Sparafucile, the paternal anxieties and final despair at his daughter's sad fate, and the burning, ...
