Apropos Musik on Ö1 Radio
remembers Swedish tenor Gösta Winbergh just a week before what
would have been his seventieth birthday, in a program called: Not just a Mozart Tenor – Gösta Winbergh. This may
come as a bit of a surprise for those of us who do think of
this Swedish tenor primarily as a Mozart singer who dabbled in Wagner
(notably Lohengrin). In between, he sang music of Donizetti, Bizet,
and Puccini (!), to name a few others. Sadly, he died of a heart attack at the early age of 58, right after
a Vienna performance of Fidelio. See! Singing Beethoven is hazardous
to your health.
In this hour-long program, we get to hear him in arias from Fidelio,
Carmen, Tosca, and of course, Die Zauberflöte. The program also includes duets from Die Entfürhung aus dem Serail* with
Edita Gruberova, L'elisir d'amore
with Barbara Bonney (BB’s Adina is another pleasant surprise!), and The Pearl Fishers.
