Composers Performers

Astrid Varnay

Astrid Varnay (1918–2006)

soprano / mezzo-soprano · Sweden

Janacek, Leos - Opera “Jenůfa” (“Her Stepdaughter”), JW I/4

Massenet, Jules - Opera “Hérodiade” (excerpts)

Orff, Carl - Opera “Oedipus der Tyrann”

Ponchielli, Amilcare - Opera `La Gioconda` (arias)

Puccini, Giacomo - Opera “Manon Lescaut” (arias and excerpts)

Strauss, Richard - Opera “Die Frau ohne Schatten”, Op. 65, TrV 234

Strauss, Richard - Opera “Elektra”, Op. 58, TrV 223

Verdi, Giuseppe - Opera “Aida” (selected numbers)

Verdi, Giuseppe - Opera “Macbeth” (selected numbers)

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Der fliegende Holländer”, WWV 63

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Die Walküre” (excerpts, first day of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), WWV 86B

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Die Walküre” (first day of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), WWV 86B

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Götterdämmerung” (excerpts, third day of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), WWV 86D

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Götterdämmerung” (third day of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), WWV 86D

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Lohengrin”, WWV 75

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Lohengrin” (vocal excerpts), WWV 75

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Parsifal”, WWV 111

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Siegfried” (second day of “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), WWV 86C

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg”, WWV 70

Wagner, Richard - Opera “Tristan und Isolde”, WWV 90