Verdi, Giuseppe - Aida - Ehrling, Sixten (conductor)
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On this release of Caprice Record's acclaimed series of live recordings of Swedish opera from the 1950s, Brita Hertzberg stands in the centre and the listener meets her in a sensational and almost complete recording of Verdi's "Aida" from 1956.
Brita Hertzberg was one of Sweden's most popular 20th C. operatic artists. Today, she is perhaps best known as the mother of another great singer, Catarina Ligendza. In the middle of the last century, she and her husband, the tenor Einar Beyron, were for several decades known by most Swedes as "hovsångarparet" - the Swedish "court singers, by special appointment to the King". They were as great in Wagner operas as they were in modern operas of that time; they toured and performed a broad repertoire on the air and at concerts.
They have both become merely historical names, as re-releases of their recordings have been lacking. Therefore, it is sensational news to be presenting an almost complete recording of Verdi's "Aida" from the performance in the spring of 1956 that was Brita Hertzberg's unofficial farewell to the opera house in which she had been one of the foremost artists for more than 25 years.
In this unique "Aida", from a private collection, Brita Hertzberg's magnificent Amneris is in the company of a young and astute Birgit Nilsson and Set Svanholm the legendary opera director and heroic tenor. The recording also features the powerful bass baritone Sigurd Björling, both the sonorous basses Sven Nilsson and Leon Björker as well as Elisabeth Söderström. The conductor is Sixten Ehrling.