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...Elisabeth Linton’s unambitious stage direction tells the story clearly enough, and the Swedish cast gives its best to Kraus’s imaginative score....
...Both are conducted by Rudolf Kempe (1910-76), a noted Wagnerian, and feature leading singers of the day – Ramón Vinay as Tannhäuser, Astrid Varnay as Elisabeth, Gottlob Frick as Gurnemanz and Otakar Kraus...
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