My main interest is finding a new Leonie Rysanek role on cd. One doesn't think of her in a role like this but in her younger years this is an appropriate role for her.What else is hidden in the Fox Plaza?

A FRESH PERFORMANCE! A MUST HAVE!

When this performance first appeared on Myto several decades ago it was greeted with almost universal praise. After not hearing it in a long time, it's a delight to make its acquaintance again. Rysanek was not yet thirty when she sang this Tatiana, a role she wasn't destined to keep for long in her repertoire. She sounds the dreamy, immature young woman to the life and because she sings in her native language she always knows exactly what she is singing about. The role only requires one high B at the very end, but Rysanek's voice was more of a piece in 1955 and she sings beautifully.London was already a big star and he paints the callow, thoughtless Onegin with broad, vivid colors. Dermota sounds as great here as he does in the 1961 performance recently issued by Opera Depot (OD #11944). He and Peter Klein interpolate the same high notes they do in the later performance. Frick's singing of Gremin's big aria is so beautiful I played it twice. Klobucar plays a little more of the score than was customary at the time in Germany, but the end of the ballroom scene in Act Three still ends rather abruptly with Onegin's last line.The supporting cast and the sound are excellent. All Onegin lovers should hear this performance!

Super performance.