Neglected masterpieces
Other rarely-performed operas that deserve to be re-evaluated.
Cyrano de Bergerac - Franco Alfano
L'amore dei tre re (The Love of Three Kings) - Italo Montemezzi
Oedipe (Oedipus) - George Enescu
Paul Bunyan - Benjamin Britten
Genoveva (Genevieve) - Robert Schumann
Information about the opera Genoveva by Robert Schumann, and the best recordings available on CD or DVD, or for download.
Schumann's only completed opera, a complex and ambiguous work about secret passion and suspected adultery that is probably better suited to listening on CD than seeing in performance.
Recommended recordings on CD
Harnoncourt/Ziesak/Walt (Teldec 0630-13144-2)
Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 1996.
Cast: Ruth Ziesak (Genoveva), Deon Van der Walt (Golo), Rodney Gilfry (Hidulfus), Oliver Widmer (Siegfried), Marjana Lipovsek (Margaretha).
Teldec 0630-13144-2