Who owns the rights to the recording of
Maid of Orleans featuring Irina Arkhipova—and why don't they release a CD? To put it
mildly, the dearth of recordings of this opera is reprehensible. My search
is turning up nothing worth purchasing, when I can find anything at all.
Are there plans for a good modern recording anytime soon? Does anyone
know?
David M. Perkins
Director of Marketing
The Bloomsbury Review
Denver, Colorado 80202–1167 USA
I too find it timely to get a modern recording of
The Maid of Orleans. Long
time one of my favorite operas—despite its obvious shortcomings (too bad
Tchaikovsky did not live to fulfill his plans about revising the work)—I
still enjoy the old one with Preobrazhenskaya from 1946!, but imagine a
new version with e.g. Gergiev and a good orchestra in good sound!
Erling Eliasson
Here is a dvd on the opera, if this is of interest.
www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Gavrilowa-Mikhajlov-Mishenkin-Pochapsky/dp/B000BP86QO
Amazon.com: Tchaikovsky—The Maid of Orleans / Rautio, Kulko,
Gavrilowa, Gluboky, Krutikov, Mikhajlov, Mishenkin, Nikolsky, .
Al Gasparo
I'ld like to add, that this recording is the only new one, which is
available Recording is very good but there are major cuts of the score!
Several numbers of the ballett were left out and also scenes of the
coronation were shortened. Instead of the oprichnik any revise of the
Orleanskaya deva is not necessary for a successful performance.
Indeed: Gergiev already introduced western europe (Germany) in the last
few years with Mazepa and the Entchantress.
The Orleanskaya deva should be the next ...........
Rüdiger Herpich