Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Richard Bonynge - Kálmán: Die Herzogin von Chicago (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 156:46 | 769 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 466 057-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 156:46 | 769 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 466 057-2
This is an excellent spoof/satire of all things American with a side swipe at impoverished European royalty and the operetta genre to boot. Deborah Riedel is absolutely magnificent both in her acting and her singing. Her intentional horribly bad American accent in German is absolutely hilarious and is exactly the way so many Americans speak German although never so completely and swiftly. Yet when she sings, her German, of course, is impeccable and unaccented for, after all, she is an opera singer and will go only so far to dumb down.