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Bear Family Records - BCD 15236 - Rene Kollo - Erfolge




As the grandson of operetta composer Walter Kollo (1878 - 1940) and the son of Willi Kollo, likewise a composer of light music, René Kollo began his career as a pop singer and operetta tenor. He made the transition to concert and opera in 1965, at Brunswick, singing the title role in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex. In 1969, he attracted international attention at Bayreuth as the Steersman in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, and in 1970 debuted at La Scala as Matteo in Richard Strauss' Arabella. 

 Although not yet a "dramatic tenor" (and never a true Heldentenor despite his repertoire later on), the die had been cast. Kollo sang Lohengrin in 1971 -- also his American debut role at the Met in 1976 -- then Walther in Die Meistersinger in 1973, Parsifal in Wolfgang Wagner's new Bayreuth production in 1975, and a year later Siegfried in Patrice Chéreau's centennial staging of Der Ring at Bayreuth, conducted by Pierre Boulez. For his London debut, he switched from Siegfried to Siegmund in Die Walküre, later adding Tristan to his Wagner repertoire in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's scandalous Bayreuth production of 1981. At Geneva he performed Tannhäuser for the first time in 1986, and even sang in a complete production of Wagner's Rienzi, a five-act marathon that daunted bigger voices than Kollo's. 

 By no means, however, was Wagner his only operatic specialty: He sang Paul in Korngold's Die tote Stadt for the Munich Radio in 1974, then Florestan in Bernstein's 1978 Fidelio at the Vienna Staatsoper for Unitel, which also preserved his Matteo in Arabella under Solti, and Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos under Böhm. Kollo's repertory embraced Gherman in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, Canio in Pagliacci, Dmitri in Boris Godunov, the title role in Pfitzner's Palestrina, and at age 51 Otello in Frankfurt for the first time. At Munich in 1991 he scored a personal triumph in Britten's Peter Grimes.





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   1. (00:02:14) Rene Kollo - Hello Mary Lou  1961
   2. (00:02:47) Rene Kollo - Peggy Peggy  1961
   3. (00:02:12) Rene Kollo - Eso Beso  1962
   4. (00:02:44) Rene Kollo - Du Casanova, Du (& Monika Grimm)  1962
   5. (00:03:00) Rene Kollo - Weit so weit  1962
   6. (00:02:19) Rene Kollo - Davon träumen alle jungen Leute  1962
   7. (00:02:34) Rene Kollo - Auf den Straßen meines Lebens  1987
   8. (00:02:32) Rene Kollo - Schöne Rose vom Rio Grande  1963
   9. (00:02:15) Rene Kollo - Mandoline und roter Wein  1962
  10. (00:02:58) Rene Kollo - Sweet Rosmary  1962
  11. (00:02:43) Rene Kollo - Sag nie Goodbye  1965
  12. (00:02:40) Rene Kollo - Meine große Liebe wohnt in einer kleinen Stadt  1963
  13. (00:02:24) Rene Kollo - Träume weiter, Sweet Sue  1965
  14. (00:02:15) Rene Kollo - Dich gibts nur einmal 1961
  15. (00:02:24) Rene Kollo - Ohne Liebe ist alles so traurig  1965
  16. (00:02:33) Rene Kollo - Wie vom Wind verweht  1963

Playing Time.........: 00:40:35
Total Size...........: 92,88 MB




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