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Mandy FredrichTraumglück - Songs by Pejacevic, Viardot, Fauré & Strauss
Traumglück Songs by Dora Pejacevic , Pauline Viardot, Gabriel Fauré und Richard Strauss Mandy Friedrich, soprano Matthias Samuil, piano

Mandy Fredrich’s album brings together a series of art songs that create coherent arcs and extended storylines, like a kind of mini-opera. The composers’ songs were used to put together four stories about lovers, all of which revolve around the theme of dreamy happiness in all its different facets! After her breakthrough in the role of the Queen of the Night at the Salzburg Festival under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, engagements followed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Zürich Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the State Operas in Munich and Hamburg, and at the Bregenz Festival. Matthias Samuil has been ...more

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