On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, thomas mark montgomery wrote:
> > Of course, you are talking about late Berg. His Sieben fruhe lieder are > _very_ vocal. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I happened to catch > "Judgement at Nuremberg" on television and I thought "What a great opera > the courtroom scenes would make, especially in the musical language of > early Alban Berg!" Jon Vickers in the Spencer Tracy role, Rene Pape in > the Burt Lancaster role, Fritz Wunderlich in the Maximillian Schell role, > Sherrill Milnes in the Richard Widmark role, Ian Bostridge in the Montgomery > Clift role, and Anne Sofie von Otter in the Judy Garland role. Waddya think? >
I can agree with most of your casting, except for Wunderlich in the Schell role. I definitely see the young Schell as lyric baritone, NOT a tenor. Perhaps Hvorostovsky in that role?
I also think von Otter is far too cool and restrained for the Garland role. I vote for Suzanne Mentzer in that part.
Karen Mercedes
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