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Acclaimed soprano Edita Gruberova stars as the title character in this 1996 production of Gaetano Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix," featuring the Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House under the direction of conductor Adam Fischer. Secretly in love with Viscount Carlo, Linda goes mad when she learns a marriage to another woman has been arranged for him. Jacob Will and László Polgár also star.
Recorded in 1992 at the Ludwigsburger Schlosstheater, this release from Art Haus Musik features a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's two-act opera Die Zauberflote. The production stars Deon Van Der Walt as Tamino and Ulrike Sonntag as Pamina and includes music by The Ludwigcburger Festspiele
Iphigénie en Tauride is a tragic Greek opera written by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The plot revolves around the character of Iphigenia, who is taken as a priestess to Tauris by the Scythians. She manages to escape with the help of her brother Orestes, but not without facing numerous challenges and dramatic twists. The opera explores themes of family, sacrifice, and redemption.
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Deon van der Walt
Deon van der Walt (28 July 1958 – 29 November 2005), was a South African tenor. Van der Walt studied at Stellenbosh University and resided at Wilgenhof and made his debut as Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Cape Town Opera before he had graduated. Numerous scholarships and awards allowed him to continue his studies abroad. In 1981, he won the Internationaler Mozartwettbewerb in Salzburg. His first formal engagement took him to Gelsenkirchen's Musiktheater im Revier, then to the Staatsoper Stuttgart and Zurich Opera. He was invited to perform at the Royal Opera House in London in 1985 and there made his debut as Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. He was counted amongst the leading lyric tenors of his day and performed at all the world's major opera houses, including La Scala in Milan, the Hamburg State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zurich Opera in Switzerland, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He also performed at numerous international festivals, especially at the Salzburg Festival, where he sang Belmonte in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Ferrando in Così fan tutte under Riccardo Muti. On video, he can be seen in Handel's Semele as Jupiter, singing "Where'er you walk"; in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix with Edita Gruberová; and in La belle Hélène. Deon van der Walt died at 47 at his family's vineyard in South Africa, shot by his father, who then committed suicide.. Source: Article "Deon van der Walt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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