Bizet/ Staatskapelle Berlin - Opera Overtures / Choruses & Duets Fulfilled By FYE first heard in Paris in

first heard in Paris in 1905

Rupert Charlesworth

Because you can't control who you love

Asleep at the Wheel

Bizet/ Staatskapelle Berlin - Opera Overtures / Choruses & Duets Fulfilled By FYE first heard in Paris inFrom Mozart to Leoncavallo: three hours of opera's greatest hits in rhythmically buoyant, highly enjoyable East German recordings. Taped between 1959 (Wagner's Der fliegende Hollnder) and 1993 (Die Fledermaus), a collection of overtures gets this operatic compilation off to a (literally) flying start. Suitner in particular directs deliciously sprung performances of Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel), Smetana (The Bartered Bride) and Supp (Dichter und