Hans Hopf, tenor: Phobus Hilde Scheppan, soprano: Esmeralda Karl Ostertag, tenor: Gringoire Max Proebstl, bass: Quasimodo Wilhelm Schlichting, baritone: Archdeacon of Notre Dame Hanna Muench, contralto: Falourdel, a landdady Hans Altman, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chorus As the opera begins, Esmeralda is already married (unhappily) to the crotchety, much older Gringoire (tenor). A local officer named Phoebus (awkwardly, also a tenor) has been watching the beautiful Esmeralda from afar and fallen in love with her. Not surprisingly, Gringoire becomes suspicious, plots in vain to keep a hold on Esmeralda, and finally kills Phoebus before leaping to his own death. In the second act, the love triangle is rather more oblique, and involves the seemingly ever-present Archdeacon (baritone) who is tormented with the unique inner conflict that arises for clergymen when they fall in love with gypsies. His 'rival' is the softhearted Quasimodo (bass-baritone) who also loves Esmeralda, and tries to save her when the Archdeacon decides to have her sent to the gallows. Ultimately too late to save the gypsy, Quasimodo causes the Archdeacon to fall from a parapet, leaving all the main characters dead except for the hunchback.
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Maybe we lost today, but we will not let them win
We will not let them win!
Hans Hopf, tenor: Phobus
Hilde Scheppan, soprano: Esmeralda
Karl Ostertag, tenor: Gringoire
Max Proebstl, bass: Quasimodo
Wilhelm Schlichting, baritone: Archdeacon of Notre Dame
Hanna Muench, contralto: Falourdel, a landdady
Hans Altman, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chorus
As the opera begins, Esmeralda is already married (unhappily) to the crotchety, much older Gringoire (tenor). A local officer named Phoebus (awkwardly, also a tenor) has been watching the beautiful Esmeralda from afar and fallen in love with her. Not surprisingly, Gringoire becomes suspicious, plots in vain to keep a hold on Esmeralda, and finally kills Phoebus before leaping to his own death. In the second act, the love triangle is rather more oblique, and involves the seemingly ever-present Archdeacon (baritone) who is tormented with the unique inner conflict that arises for clergymen when they fall in love with gypsies. His 'rival' is the softhearted Quasimodo (bass-baritone) who also loves Esmeralda, and tries to save her when the Archdeacon decides to have her sent to the gallows. Ultimately too late to save the gypsy, Quasimodo causes the Archdeacon to fall from a parapet, leaving all the main characters dead except for the hunchback.
Captivating and beautiful. Where can I get an English or French translation??
Hans Hopf is spectacular
Innovative....Superb....Strangely neglected....yet gives Mahler a run for his money!
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Auch damals konnten die Leute singen....