Izabela Labuda Kalman:Die Grafin Mariza CD

Kalman:Die Grafin Mariza Music

List Price	$37.96 (You save $5.11)
Category	Classical Albums, 20th Century Period CDs, Opera/Operetta, Operetta
Label	Albany Music Distribution
All Time Sales Rank	28827
CD Universe Part number	5330181
Discs	2
Release Date	Oct 15, 2002

Kalman:Die Grafin Mariza Music Review

Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars) 3 stars

3 stars Good but not complete
The standard of singing and playing on this recording is very high, but I bought this double CD assuming it would be a complete recording. This is not so. All the main numbers of the score are there, but most importantly there is no chorus, apart from the children's chorus in act 1. This means that the finales of acts 1 & 2 are severly cut down to just the sections involving the four characters listed. In the act 3 trio they even omit sung lines leaving the orchestra playing alone for four or eight bars as there is no one cast as the character Popolescu. The role of Manja is also cut.
Submitted by vvcc (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
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