Felsenstein: Edition [7 Discs]

Founder and general director of the Komische Opera in Berlin, Walter Fernstein helped revive opera as a theatrical art form. His career spanning over 3 decades, amassing over 190 productions, seven of which are featured here in this superb collection. Carefully restored into a digital form with a clarity that serves to emphasise the productions' scale and intensity, operas include; FIDELIO, DAS SCHLAUE FUCHSLEIN, DON GIOVANNI, OTHELLO, HOFFMANNS ERZAHLUNGEN, RITTER BLAUBART and DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO.