This 31CD-box brings together all the operatic recordings that the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) made in the years from 1956 to 1993 for EMI Classics and Electrola (now Warner Classics). Aged 11, Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) heard a performance of Humperdinck's fairytale opera HÃ¤nsel und Gretel in his native Munich and, there and then, decided that he wanted to be the man in the orchestra pit who waved his arms and made things happen. It took him a while - war service as a radio operator and a spell as a prisoner of war delayed the inevitable - but by his late 20s he was conducting opera at Augsburg (starting with HÃ¤nsel und Gretel) and he had barely turned 30 when at Aachen he became the youngest Generalmusikdirektor in Germany. Opera recordings followed and his 1957 version of Richard Strauss's Capriccio is still regarded as the benchmark. Also in this box, along with more Strauss, perhaps the finest achievements of Sawallisch's other operatic hero, Wagner.

Tracklist:

Contains the Complete Operas
CD 1-2 Mozart: Die ZauberflÃ¶te
CD 3 Weber: Abu Hassan
CD 4 Schubert: Die Zwillingsbruder
CD 5-6 Wagner: Das Rheingold
CD 7-9 Wagner: Die WalkÃ¼re
CD 10-12 Wagner: Siegfried
CD 13-16 Wagner: GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung
CD 17-20 Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von NÃ¼rnberg
CD 21-22 R. Strauss: Capriccio
CD 23-24 R. Strauss: Intermezzo
CD25-27 R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
CD 28-29 R. Strauss: Elektra
CD 30 Orff: Die Kluge
CD 31 Orff: Der Mond

UPC: 5054197949463
Label: Warner Classics
Release Date: 11.1.24
Format: CD

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Complete Opera Recordings 31cd / Warner Classics (CD)