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Title: The problem is the tenor....
Review: For this recorded performance, Karl Boehm selected the wrong tenor in Rene Kollo. It is not worth the price to pay if you don't have a good Bacchus. James King, who triumphed in the 1976 production in Vienna, with the same cast except Agnes Baltsa for Trudeliese Schmidt as the Composer, was the essence of Bacchus in Boehm's Wiener Staatsoper production which premiered November 20, 1976. I was in the audience, as I was a music student in Vienna at the time. Kollo could never beat King in performance of this role. I am just unbelieving that Boehm would even consider Kollo for this recording over James King. The MET version, with Jessye Norman and Tatiana Troyanos, has King in the cast as well. Suggestion: skip this version to get King's rendition of Bacchus, although Janowitz was truly a great Ariadne as well.
