Performance arrangement by K. H. Gutheim. "V. Deutsches Mozartfest Ludwigsburg" production. SDR live rec. at Schloßtheater Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart), 1956-07-01.
Cast: Fritz Wunderlich (Belfiore), Alfred Pfeifle (Podesta), Olga Moll (Sandrina), Trude Eipperle (Arminda), Katja Sabo (Don Ramiro), Ellinor Junker-Giesen (Serpetta), Gustav Grefe (Nardo), Württembergisches Staatsorchester Stuttgart, cond. Josef Dünnwald
Mozart - Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe K. 196
Stuttgarter Zeitung, 1956:: "The great surprise of the evening ewas the 25-year-old Fritz Wunderlich as Count Belfiore. he showed aristocratic delicacy in his acting and his vocalism was pure gold. Wunderlich is the born Mozart tenor - with astonishing flexibility in distinguished musical expression and with a truly remarkable beauty of voice in the upper range. A well-focussed, noble, lyric voice, a gift and an instrument of which he is already a master." [quoted from the MYTO booklet]
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