Otakar Kraus

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British operatic baritone and teacher, born 10 December 1909 in Praque, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic) and died 28 July 1980 in London, England.

ALBUMS

Wagner* - Rudolf Kempe, Nilsson*, Varnay*, Crespin*, Schmidt*, Resnik*, Hoffmann*, Höffgen*, Hines*, Milligan*, Hopf*, Uhl*, O. Kraus*, H. Kraus*, Stolze*, Frick*, Roth-Ehrang*, Stewart*

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

2016, 13xCD, Mono, RM + Box, Orfeo (2),

Richard Wagner - Franz Konwitschny ; Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter, Peter Klein (2), Otakar Kraus, Marga Höffgen

2012, 4xCD, Walhall,

Richard Wagner - Franz Konwitschny ; Hans Hotter, Ursula Boese, Otakar Kraus, Richard Holm

2011, 2xCD, Walhall,

Richard Wagner, Rudolf Kempe, Karl Liebl, Gerda Lammers, Gottlob Frick, Eberhard Wächter, Otakar Kraus

2010, 4xCD, Album, Mono, Testament,

Lehár* - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Otakar Kraus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann

Die lustige Witwe / Das Land Des Lächelns

Richard Wagner, Rudolf Kempe, Hans Hotter, Otakar Kraus, Erich Witte, Kurt Böhme, Birgit Nilsson, Sylvia Fisher, Wolfgang Windgassen

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

2008, 13xCD, Mono, RM + Box, Mono, RM, Testament,

Giuseppe Verdi, Ramón Vinay, Otakar Kraus, Gré Brouwenstijn, The Covent Garden Opera Chorus*, The Covent Garden Orchestra*, Rafael Kubelik

2006, 2xCD, Album, Mono, Royal Opera House Heritage Series,

Coro* E Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Robert Rounseville, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Otakar Kraus, Jennie Tourel

The Rake's Progress

Richard Wagner, Rudolf Kempe, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Hermann Uhde, Hertha Töpper, Thomas Stewart (2), Georg Paskuda, Ingrid Bjoner, Arnold van Mill, Peter Roth-Ehrang, Otakar Kraus, Herold Kraus, Marga Höffgen, Dorothea Siebert, Claudia Hellmann, Soňa Červená

Das Rheingold 1960 - Vorabend Zu Dem Bühnenfestspiel "Der Ring Des Nibelungen"

1981, 3xLP, Album + Box, Melodram,

Richard Wagner, Kirsten Flagstad, Franz Lechleitner, Ludwig Weber, Sigurd Björling, Otakar Kraus, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra*, Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Karl Rankl

Parsifal (Act II), June 22 1951

1963, LP, The Golden Age Of Opera,

Weber*, Sutherland*, Schech*, Vroons*, Kraus*, Böhme*, Stiedry*

Excerpts From Euryanthe

1955, LP, Comp, Not on Label

Franz Lehar*, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Nicolai Gedda, Emmy Loose, Otakar Kraus, The Philharmonia Orchestra* And Chorus*, Otto Ackermann

The Land Of Smiles

Wagner*, Set Svanholm, Otakar Kraus, Joan Sutherland, Covent Garden Orchestra* / Fritz Stiedry

Götterdämmerung (The 1954 Covent Garden Season)

APPEARANCES +

The Warner Classics Remastered Edition Vol.2 (Complete Recordings Of Operas & Sacred Works On EMI Columbia And HMV)

2023, 29xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Comp, RM, Warner Classics,

Classical/Baroque/Opera/Oratorio/Choral

Carl Maria von Weber

2019, 2xCD, Nimbus Records

Richard Wagner, Rudolf Kempe, Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hopf, Gottlob Frick, Marcel Cordes, Margarethe Bence, Jutta Meyfarth

Götterdämmerung

2013, 4xCD, Album, Myto Records,

Richard Wagner, Rudolf Kempe, Hans Hopf, Birgit Nilsson

2013, 3xCD, Album, Myto Historical Line,

Strauss*, Gerda Lammers, Hedwig Müller-Bütow, Georgine von Milinkovic, The Covent Garden Opera Chorus*, The Covent Garden Orchestra*, Rudolf Kempe

2006, 2xCD, Album, Mono, RE, Royal Opera House,

Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Tebaldi, Irmgard Seefried, Sena Jurinac, Kirsten Flagstad, Ljuba Welitsch, Victoria De Los Angeles, Lisa Della Casa, Zinka Milanow*

10 Great Sopranos

2006, 10xCD, Comp, Documents,

Das Land Des Lächelns

2005, 2xCD, Album, RM, Naxos, Naxos, Naxos,

Janáček*, Janice Watson, Dame Josephine Barstow*, Peter Wedd, Nigel Robson, Orchestra* & Chorus Of The Welsh National Opera*, Sir Charles Mackerras

Jenufa, Her Stepdaughter

2004, 2xCD + Box, Chandos

Lehar*, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicolai Gedda, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Ackermann, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose

The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) & The Land Of Smiles (Das Land Des Lächelns)

Benjamin Britten, Kathleen Ferrier

The Rape Of Lucretia: Amsterdam 1946

2000, 2xCD, Gala (8)

Stars Of English Opera, Volume 4

1998, CD, Comp, Mono, Dutton

The Easter Collection

1997, 5xCD, Album, Comp, Promo, RM + Box, Comp, Ltd, Pro, EMI Classics, Η Καθημερινή,

Verdi • Leoncavallo • Saint-Saens • Wagner

1990, 2xCD, Comp, Melodram,

Wagner*, Flagstad*, Lechlestner*, Rankl*

Parsifal, Act II, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, 1951

1989, CD, RE, RM, Legato Classics,

Richard Wagner, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele Conducted By Rudolf Kempe

Götterdämmerung 1960

1982, 5xLP, Mono + Box, Melodram

Igor Stravinskij*

The Rake's Progress

1982, 3x Vinyl, Box Set,

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

The Early Years

1981, 4x Vinyl, Box Set,

Gerard Hoffnung

Hoffnung's Music Festivals

1978, 3x Vinyl, Box Set,

Comedy/Parody/Classical/Romantic/Opera/Modern

Richard Strauss - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rita Streich, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Schock, Hermann Prey, Philharmonia Orchestra, Karajan*

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Contemporary/Parody/Opera/Modern/Classical/Romantic

Carl Maria von Weber

Gerard Hoffnung

The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival

Parody/Classical/Opera

J.S. Bach*, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Otto Klemperer, Boys Of The Hampstead Parish Church Choir, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Pears, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, Walter Berry

St. Matthew Passion

1962, 5x Vinyl, Box Set,

Baroque/Oratorio

The History Of Music In Sound - Vol. IX. Romanticism (1830-1890)

1961, 2xLP + LP, S/Sided + Box, Comp, RCA Victor Red Seal,

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Erich Kunz / Philharmonia Orchestra And Chorus* Conducted By Otto Ackermann

Land Of Smiles And Merry Widow Highlights

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Erich Kunz / Philharmonia Orchestra And Chorus* Conducted By Otto Ackermann

The Merry Widow

Lehár* - Schwarzkopf*, Gedda*, Kunz*, Loose*, Philharmonia Orchestra London*, Ackermann*

Das Land Des Lächelns - Gesamtaufnahme

Romantic/Operetta

Franz Lehár, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted By Otto Ackermann

The Merry Widow

Igor Stravinsky

Orchestral Works - Violin Concerto - Oedipus Rex - The Rake's Progress

10xCD, Comp + Box, Membran Music Ltd.,

Giacomo Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Marschner, Bedřich Smetana, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Schumann

LP, Comp, His Master's Voice,

König Und Komödiant / King And Comic Actor

10xCD, Album, Comp, Mono + Box, Membran,

Benjamin Britten With Kathleen Ferrier, Peter Pears & Original Cast*

Excerpts From "The Rape Of Lucretia" (Historic 1946 Live Performance)

LP, Mono, I Grandi Interpreti

Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears

If Music Be The Food Of Love

10xCD, Comp, RE, RM, Documents,

Die Größten Operetten-Welterfolge In Gesamtaufnahmen

10xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box, Documents, The Intense Media,

Richard Wagner, Joan Sutherland, Set Svanholm, Fritz Stiedry

Siegfried: The 100th Covent Garden Performance, Excerpts

John Gay, Benjamin Britten, The English Opera Group Orchestra*

The Beggar's Opera

Die Lustige Witwe

2xLP, Album, Mono, Sli, Columbia, Columbia

Das Liebesverbot

3x Vinyl Box Set; Private Recording,

Franz Lehár / Schwarzkopf*, Loose*, Gedda*, Kunz*

Die Lustige Witwe / Das Land Des Lächelns (Querschnitte)

Franz Lehár – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf • Erich Kunz • Nicolai Gedda • Emmy Loose, Philharmonia Chorus And Orchestra*, Otto Ackermann

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow