Fabulous performance and excellent sound but I didn't like at all the taxes I had to pay upon receipt on top of the already significant shipping costs.

A Kleiber- wonder!!!

Opera Depot has several Rosenkavaliers with Dernesch and Carlos Kleiber. This one is very good with Kleiber sprinting through portions of the score and Dernesch gracing us again with her beautiful singing. She is not flawless vocally; the G on the "silberne Rosen " is flat and strained and some of the other high moments are not great. But she does manage the final trio very well and always conveys the Marschallin's nobility and depth of feeling. Minton is better here than she was at Salzburg under Dohnanyi a few years later. She is boyish and romantic. Cahill's Sophie is worth the price of the set alone. She floats the high phrases beautifully and portrays a feisty, sympathetic young lady. Bastin is very funny, more baritonal than other Ochs. He has the low E's for the end of Act Two (just), but there is no low C at his exit in Act One (he does sing the note in the studio recording with De Waart conducting). The supporting cast includes Ermanno Mauro as the Italian Tenor. He is the only singer I've heard who gets audibly annoyed with Ochs' interruption of his aria.The sound is very good though the voices occasionally sound a little recessed. There were some momentary glitches here and there, but they are quite brief.

Great conducting and a fine cast, though Dernesch has a few pitch issues.

Great performance

Perfect reading, singers and orchestra very valid in the will of Kleiber.

Great sound and great performance. I was actually at one of these in London during the run...and it brings back fond memories.

Roles parfaitement tenus.