Opera Today

This issue from DGís own classic recital series is a copy of the 1963 LP.

Serge Jaroff and his Don Cossacks Choir were for many decades legendary performers of Russian choral music, ranging from the liturgical works of Orthodoxy to beloved regional folk melodies.

This Sellars production had its origins at the 1985 Pepsico Summerfare Festival in Purchase NY.

These recordings prove decisively a well-known thesis: more or less realistic productions always age better than so called innovative modern productions which often only aggrandize the clichÈs of the time of their conception if one views them a few decades after their premiËre.

Some interesting repertory choices and the participation of some of today’s most attractive singers make this particular “gala” evening of “walk on-sing-walk off” entertainment more consistently enjoyable than these affairs often are.