Description: Welitsch made her operatic debut in Sofia in 1936, in a small part in Louise. Her first major role was Nedda in Pagliacci at the Graz Opera in the same year. She learned her craft with the Graz company over the next three years, singing an unusually wide range of soprano roles, in operas by composers from Mozart to Wagner, Humperdinck, Puccini and Richard Strauss. Between then and the end of the Second World War she was a member of opera companies in Hamburg (1941–1943), Munich and Berlin (1943–1946). While in Berlin she played the role of the young Composer in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. Strauss saw her and was impressed; he arranged for her to sing the title role in a new production of his Salome in Vienna, in 1944, to mark his eightieth birthday. He helped her prepare the part, and it became the one with which she was most closely associated. They worked on the piece for six weeks before the performance; Strauss attended rehearsals every day. LJUBA WELITSCHsoprano PYOTR IL'YICH TCHAIKOVSKYEugene Onegin1.Act I : Scène et air de la lettre (Tatiana)14:21Philharmonia OrchestraWalter Susskind, conductorRecording : 22 May 1948 London GUISEPPE VERDIAïda2.Act I : ”Ritorna Vincitor”6:09Philharmonia OrchestraJosef Krips, conductorRecording : 25 September 1947 London GIACOMO PUCINNITosca3.Act II : “Vissi D’arte”3:03Philharmonia OrchestraWalter Susskind, conductorRecording : 5 May 1948 London La bohème4.Act II : “Quando M’en Vo ?” (Valse De Musette)2:34Orchester des Wiener StaatsoperRecording : 10 November 1948 Vienna CARL MARIA VON WEBERDer Freischütz5.Acte II : “Wie nahte mir der Schlummer… Leise, leise”8:33Philharmonia OrchestraWalter Susskind, conductorRecording : 5 May 1948 London RICHARD STRAUSSSalomé6.“Ah, du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen” (Closing scene)17:32Orchester des Österreichischen RundfunksLovro von Matacic, conductorRecording : Vienna (?) 1944
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Artist: LJUBA WELITSCH
Format: CD
Type: Album
Release Title: Great Recordings of the Century LJUBA WELITSCH
Edition: HISTORIC RECORDING
Record Label: EMI Music Distribution
Style: Opera
Duration: 52min.
Genre: Opera, Classical
