 Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire.
She made her début in 1950 in Mulhouse as Elsa in Lohengrin, and the same year appeared in that role in Paris.[1] After her debut, she sang with the Paris Opera but in regional centres. Her big break was being chosen as Kundry in Parsifal at the 1958 Bayreuth Festival, despite the fact that she had not sung Wagner in German. To learn the role in German, she was coached by Lou Bruder, a professor of German literature who later became her husband.[1]
Notable subsequent parts added to her repertoire were Cassandre and Didon in Berlioz' Les Troyens; Carmen; Fauré's Pénélope; Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride; Charlotte in Massenet's Werther; Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein; Madame Lidoine and Madame de Croissy in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites; Tosca; the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades; Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal, and Sieglinde and Brünnhilde in his Die Walküre. Above all, perhaps, she was loved for her Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. |
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Régine Crespin (soprano) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet Recorded: Geneva, September 1963; Kingsway Hall, May 1967 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Régine Crespin, Alain Vanzo, Jules Bastin, Gérard Friedmann Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Choeurs de l’Opéra du Rhin, Alain Lombard | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Régine Crespin (soprano) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Wiener Volksopernorcheste, Alain Lombard & Georges Sebastian “... singing which is pure delight, whether in the swagger of Offenbach's "Ah! que j'aime les militaires" (a phrase rattled out faster than you would think possible) to the thirties cabaret number from Strauss' Les Trois valses ... Crespin is superb in the Périchole waltz ...I am sure she enjoyed herself enormously, and on any count she stands very high in the list of Parisian prima donnas celebrated in this set ... she has been splendidly served by her accompanists, not to mention the recording engineers.” Gramophone, July 1972 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Regine Crespin Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française & Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre & Otto Ackermann (CD + DVD) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Regine Crespin, Yvonne Minton & Manfred Jungwirth Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti “Still one of the truly great recordings. Solti's conducting is refreshing, more champagne than schmaltz, yet not unduly driven, and his singers are superb, not just Crespin, Minton and Jungwirth (as Ochs) but the entire ensemble.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Régine Crespin, Yvonne Minton, Manfred Jungwirth, Helen Donath Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Siegmund - Jon Vickers; Hunding - Martti Talvela; Wotan - Thomas Stewart; Sieglinde - Gundula Janowitz; Brünnhilde - Régine Crespin; Fricka - Josephine Veasey; Gerhilde - Liselotte Rebmann; Ortlinde - Carlotta Ordassy; Waltraute - Ingrid Steger; Schwertleite - Lilo Brockhaus; Helmwige - Daniza Mastilovic; Siegrune - Barbro Ericson; Grimgerde - Cvetka Ahlin; Rossweisse - Helga Jenckel Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Puccini: | Tosca Recorded in Buenos Aires in 1965 Regine Crespin, Giuseppe di Stefano & Giuseppe Taddei Bruno Bartoletti Tosca Moscow 1971 (sung in Russian) Galina Vishnevskaya, Virgilus Noreika & Vladimir Valaitis Mark Ermler |
Two performances of Puccini’s masterpiece. The first recorded in Buenos Aires in 1965, with Regine Crespin in the title role, with Giuseppe di Stefano as Cavarodossi and Giuseppe Taddei as Scarpia. Conducted by Bruno Bartoletti, July 1965. The second has Galina Vishnevskaya as Tosca supported by Virgilus Noreika and Vladimir Valaitis. Conducted by Mark Ermler in Moscow in 1971 (sung in Russian). A bonus has Vishnevskaya singing highlights from Tchaikovsky’s “Queen of Spades”. | 
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including Helen Donath, Simone Mangelsdorff, Oralia Dominguez, Robert Kerns, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Donald Grobe, Gerhard Stolze, Zoltan Kélémen, Gundula Janowitz, Régine Crespin, Josephine Veasey, Jon Vickers, Martti Talvela, Thomas Stewart Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Das Rheingold George London (Bass Baritone); Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano); Claire Watson (Soprano); Set Svanholm (Tenor); Waldemar Kmentt (Tenor); Eberhard Wächter (Baritone); Paul Kuen (Tenor); Jean Madeira (Mezzo Soprano); Gustav Neidlinger (Bass Baritone); Walter Kreppel (Bass); Kurt Böhme (Bass); Oda Balsborg (Soprano); Hetty Plümacher (Alto); Ira Malaniuk (Alto) Die Walküre James King (Tenor); Régine Crespin (Soprano); Gottlob Frick (Bass); Hans Hotter (Baritone); Birgit Nilsson (Soprano); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Brigitte Fassbaender (Mezzo Soprano); Berit Lindholm (Soprano); Helga Dernesch (Soprano); Vera Schlosser (Soprano); Helen Watts (Alto); Vera Little (Alto); Claudia Hellmann (Mezzo Soprano); Marilyn Tyler (Soprano) Siegfried Wolfgang Windgassen (Tenor); Birgit Nilsson (Soprano); Hans Hotter (Baritone); Gerhard Stolze (Tenor); Gustav Neidlinger (Bass Baritone); Kurt Böhme (Bass); Marga Höffgen (Alto); Joan Sutherland (Soprano) Götterdämmerung Wolfgang Windgassen (Tenor); Birgit Nilsson (Soprano); Gottlob Frick (Bass); Gustav Neidlinger (Bass Baritone); Claire Watson (Soprano); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone); Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano); Lucia Popp (Soprano); Gwyneth Jones (Soprano); Maureen Guy (Mezzo Soprano); Helen Watts (Alto); Grace Hoffman (Alto); Anita Välkki (Soprano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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