JOHANN STRAUSS II

 

Der Zigeunerbaron

 

Sandor Barinkay......Siegfried Jerusalem

Saffi......Ellen Shade

Kalman Zsupan......Ivan Rebroff

Arsena......Janet Perry

Mirabella......Martha Mödl

Ottokar......Willi Brokmeier

Carnero......Hans Kraemmer

Czipra......Biserka Cvejic

Graf Homonay......Wolfgang Brendel

 

Südfunkchor Stuttgart

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Kurt Eichhorn

Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt

 

Filmed and recorded in Hungary and Germany, Stuttgart, 1975

 

Johann Strauss´s popular operetta with Siegfried Jerusalem and Ellen Shade in the lead roles. Johann Strauss was nearly 60 when he completed Der Zigeunerbaron, which became alongside Die Fledermaus his second masterpiece. The libretto of this Hungarian fairy story gave Strauss the chance to revel in such contrasting musical forms as the csardas and the viennese waltz. The style of the lied forms and ensembles is so original and finely balanced that Der Zigeunerbaron can truly be called a comic opera.

 

Among the leading names of the stellar cast are Wolfgang Brendel, Ivan Rebroff, Janet Perry, Ellen Shade and Siegfried Jerusalem as Sandor Barinkay and Kurt Eichhorn conducts the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. Director Arthur Maria Rabenalt uses for this film version of Der Zigeunerbaron, filmed in Yugoslavia in 1975, a specific media-compatible stylistics and method of telling.

 

DG DVD 0734437