Cast Recording
Der Zigeunerprimas.
Emmerich Kálmán
CD Back Cover:
“First complete CD recording of the 1912 romantic-comic operetta (first heard in America as “SÁRI”) in a new English translation by James Stuart and recorded by John Ostendorf with the Cast, Chorus & Orchestra of the Ohio Light Opera 2001 Summer Festival”
The cast is uniformly outstanding, with baritone Lucas Meachem turning in a tour-de-force in the demanding role of Rácz, his voice resplendent and incisively clear in his monologic “Time Has Robbed Me of My Youth,” unfolding seamlessly across his registral break.
Arkiv Music