Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live (1997-2014)

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Orfeo
Release Date
April 7, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN STRAUSS WAGNER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestra Of The Vienna State Opera
    • PERFORMER
      Botha, Welser-Most, Ozawa, Young, Thielemann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 07, 2017
    • UPC
      4011790906126
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C906171B
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Fidelio, Op. 72, Act II: Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier! - In des Lebens Frühlingstagen

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha

      Conductor: Seiji Ozawa

    2. Tannhäuser, Act III: Hör an, Wolfram, hör an! Inbrunst im Herzen

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, Christian Gerhaher

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    3. Lohengrin, Act III: Atmest du nicht mit mir die süßen Düfte - Höchstes Vertrauen

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, Cheryl Studer

      Conductor: Simone Young

    4. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Act III: Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, James Rutherford

      Conductor: Simone Young

    5. Parsifal, Act II: Whe! Wehe! Was tat ich?

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, Angela Denoke

      Conductor: Donald Runnicles

    6. Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65, TrV 234, Act I: Amme! Wachst du?

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, Marjana Lipovšek

      Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli

    7. Daphne, Op. 82, TrV 272: Zu dir nun, Knabe!

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Johan Botha, Michael Schade

      Conductor: Semyon Bychkov

    8. Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, TrV 228a: Bin ich ein Gott, schuf mich ein Gott

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Ensemble: Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

      Performer: Daniela Fally, Olga Bezsmertna, Rachel Frenkel, Soile Isokoski, Valentina Naforniță, Johan Botha

      Conductor: Christian Thielemann


Johan Botha’s unfailingly radiant and yet powerfully carrying voice established him over many years as a Strauss and Wagner singer par excellence, but most of all as a youthful hero, and not as a weighty heroic tenor. In fact, Tannhauser was something of a marginal role for him, but what a role! The recording of the Rome episode in the Vienna State Opera premiere of June 16, 2010, with which the release’s four-part Wagner portrait begins with excerpts from Vienna Staatsoper productions, movingly reveals how as a suffering yet passionate pilgrim he returns from Rome dejected and unredeemed. The bridal-chamber scene from the third act of Lohengrin looks back to Botha’s early years at the Staatsoper. Fifteen years later, he is an ideal Walther von Stolzing, who after a night of dreams reveals his Prize Song to cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, who in turn refines it and writes it down. The most moving scene comes perhaps at the close of Ariadne auf Naxos, when a figure hailed as Hermes, the divine messenger of death, proves to be Bacchus, the god of love. The recording captures one of Botha’s last appearances at the Vienna Staatsoper.