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![Listen to Weber: Der Freischutz (Furtwangler) [1954] by Alfred Poell, Otto Edelmann, Hans Hopf, Elisabeth Grummer, Rita Streich, Karl Donch, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Vienna Philharmonic, Kurt Böhme, Oscar Czerwenka & Claus Clausen](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/bf/88/d4/mzi.lekfxeas.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Weber: Der Freischutz (Furtwangler) [1954] by Alfred Poell, Otto Edelmann, Hans Hopf, Elisabeth Grummer, Rita Streich, Karl Donch, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Vienna Philharmonic, Kurt Böhme, Oscar Czerwenka & Claus Clausen")
![Listen to Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (1950), Volume 2 by Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Erich Kunz, George London, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Irmgard Seefried](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/05/cd/47/mzi.cfduqvfn.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (1950), Volume 2 by Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Erich Kunz, George London, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Irmgard Seefried")
![Listen to Mozart: Don Giovanni [1955], Vol. 1 by Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Krips, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Kurt Böhme, Walter Berry, Fernando Corena, Anton Dermota, Suzanne Danco, Lisa Della Casa, Hilde Gueden & Cesare Siepi](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/73/2c/94/mzi.ihyndhzb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Mozart: Don Giovanni [1955], Vol. 1 by Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Krips, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Kurt Böhme, Walter Berry, Fernando Corena, Anton Dermota, Suzanne Danco, Lisa Della Casa, Hilde Gueden & Cesare Siepi")
![Listen to Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [1955] (Highlights) by Erich Kleiber, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Anny Felbermayer, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Murray Dickie, Cesare Siepi, Harald Pröglhöf, Alfred Poell, Hilde Gueden, Lisa Della Casa, Suzanne Danco, Fernando Corena, Hugo Meyer-Welfing & Vienna Philharmonic](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/76/36/d8/mzi.fcnfyxfw.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [1955] (Highlights) by Erich Kleiber, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Anny Felbermayer, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Murray Dickie, Cesare Siepi, Harald Pröglhöf, Alfred Poell, Hilde Gueden, Lisa Della Casa, Suzanne Danco, Fernando Corena, Hugo Meyer-Welfing & Vienna Philharmonic")
![Listen to Mozart, W.A.: The Marriage of Figaro [Opera] (1937) by Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Dora Komarek, Ester Rethy, Bruno Walter, Angelica Cravcenco, Jarmila Novotna, Victor Madin, Aulikki Rautavaara, Mariano Stabile, Giuseppe Nessi, William Wernigk, Ezio Pinza & Virgilio Lazzari](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music124/v4/92/56/87/92568787-6047-1e29-8a94-e195f346ad0a/mzi.sdjrjbxl.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Mozart, W.A.: The Marriage of Figaro [Opera] (1937) by Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Dora Komarek, Ester Rethy, Bruno Walter, Angelica Cravcenco, Jarmila Novotna, Victor Madin, Aulikki Rautavaara, Mariano Stabile, Giuseppe Nessi, William Wernigk, Ezio Pinza & Virgilio Lazzari")
About Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Hometown
Vienna, Austria
Born
1927
Genre
Classical
For more than three decades after WWII, international choral singing was measured against benchmark standards set by the Chorus of the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsopernchor). The richness and warmth of their sound is backed up by the precision and assurance of their collective music-making, and the results have since been preserved by a 92-strong, full-time professional membership selected by a rigorous audition process. The choir’s enduring artistic qualities and esprit de corps have grown from their weekly appearances in productions at the Vienna State Opera and regular concerts away from the opera house, notably at the Salzburg Festival and on tour to the world’s leading classical music venues. Yet it was in the recording studio that the choir established its unrivaled international reputation. During the 1950s and ’60s, the Vienna State Opera Choir contributed to some of the finest complete opera recordings in the catalog, including Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus under Clemens Krauss (1950), Wagner’s Die Meistersinger under Hans Knappertsbusch (1951), Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier under Erich Kleiber (1954), and Georg Solti’s epoch-defining stereo set of Wagner’s Ring cycle (1958-65). While the choir’s origins predate the Vienna State Opera’s move in 1869 to an ornate new theater on the city’s Ringstrasse, its modern development began in 1927 with the creation of the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. The Konzertvereinigung, or Concert Association, granted the choir independence beyond the opera house, an arrangement comparable to that pioneered by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra since the early 1840s. Franz Schalk, its first concert director, was succeeded by Clemens Krauss and, among others, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm, and Claudio Abbado.
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