“FIDELIO : Beethoven
Original Air Date: 12/18/1993
Cast: Michael; Evans, Heppner, Hale, Rootering, Donath, Schade
Media: MOD Audio SID.18120319 Tags: Archive; 2018
This is not my favorite Fidelio, but more notable as Anne Evans’ Met farewell. Helen Donath has a small Met career (21 performances). She has a fine voice as first heard on the Solti Rosenkavalier as Sophie. I saw her several decades later in DC as she had moved up to the Marschallin. She has been active in selected parts well after her Met Susannas which came at the end of the Fidelio season (but not broadcast). Robert Hale was second choice for Wotan during a number of the Morris years and married at least two sopranos– Inge Nielsen and Marina Poplavskaya.”
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