Helen Donath - Recordings

Recordings

Donath has made many opera and operetta recordings with various companies. Her finest moments on disc include her Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

• Beethoven: Fidelio (as Marzelline), with Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kelemen, Karl Ridderbusch, José van Dam, Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and Berliner Philharmoniker, (con.) Herbert von Karajan (EMI)
• Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (as Amor), with Marilyn Horne, Pilar Lorengar, and Royal Opera House Orchestra, (con.) Sir Georg Solti (Decca)
• Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (as Lauretta), with Rolando Panerai, Vera Baniewicz, Peter Seiffert, Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Bavarian Radio Chorus, (con.) Giuseppe Patané (RCA)
• Lehár: The Land of Smiles (as Lisa), with Martin Finke, Klaus Hirte, Siegfried Jerusalem, Brigitte Lindner, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and Münchner Rundfunkorchester, (con.) Willi Boskovsky (EMI)
• Strauss, R: Arabella (as Zdenka), with Júlia Varady, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Walter Berry, Helga Schmidt, Elfriede Hobarth, Adolf Dallapozza, and Bavarian State Orchestra and Opera Chorus, (con.) Wolfgang Sawallisch (Orfeo)
• Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier (as Sophie), with Régine Crespin, Yvonne Minton, Manfred Jungwirth, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sir Georg Solti (Decca)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (as Oscar), with Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Renata Tebaldi, Regina Resnik, and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, (con.) Bruno Bartoletti (Decca)
• Mozart: The Magic Flute (as Pamina), with Günther Leib, Peter Schreier, Leipzig Radio Chorus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden Orchestra (RCA)
• Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (as Poppea), with Elisabeth Söderström, Cathy Berberian, Paul Esswood, and Concentus musicus Wien, (con.) Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec)
• Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (as Eva), with René Kollo, Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, Geraint Evans, Karl Ridderbusch, Chor der Staatsoper Dresden, Chor des Leipziger Rundfunks and Staatskapelle Dresden, (con.) Herbert von Karajan (EMI)
• Haydn: L'anima del filosofo, with Robert Swensen, Sylvia Greenberg, Thomas Quasthoff, Paul Hansen, Azuko Suzuki, Bavarian Radio Chorus and Munich Radio Orchestra, (con.) Leopold Hager (Orfeo)
• Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, with Anna Moffo, Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Charlotte Berthold, Arleen Auger, Lucia Popp, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Tölzer Knabenchor, and Kurt Eichhorn as conductor. RCA 1999
• Hindemith Sancta Susanna, as Susanna with Gabriele Schnaut (Klementia) and Gabriele Schreckenbach (Alte Nonne), Janis Martin, Damen des RIAS Kammerchors, Radio-Symphonie-Orchesster Berlin, Gerd Albrecht, conductor

Other recordings

• Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Schreier
• Bach: Cantatas BWV 119–121 / Rilling
• Bach: Easter Cantatas / Rilling
• Bach: Magnificat / Gönnenwein
• Bach: St Matthew Passion / K. Richter (DVD)
• Bach: St John Passion / K. Richter (DVD)
• Beethoven: Fidelio / Leonard Bernstein
• Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Kubelik
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Celibidache
• Beethoven: Symphony No 9 / Kubelik
• Blendinger: Media in Vita, Sawallisch, with Hermann Becht, Bayerisches Staatsorchester
• Bizet: Carmen / Lorin Maazel
• Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande / Kubelik
• Flotow: Alessandro Stradella/ Wallberg, Schartner
• Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Solti
• Handel: Messiah / K. Richter
• Haydn: La vera costanza / Doráti
• Haydn: The Creation, The Seasons / Koch
• Humperdinck: Königskinder / Wallberg
• Lehár: The Merry Widow (as Valencienne), with Bavarian Radio Chorus and Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg conducting (EMI)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Inbal
• Mozart: Così fan tutte / Honeck (DVD)
• Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, Mass in C major, Requiem / C. Davis
• Mozart: The Magic Flute / Suitner
• Mozart: Don Giovanni / Barenboim
• Mozart: La finta semplice / Hager
• Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro / C. Davis
• Mozart: Lucio Silla / Hager
• Mozart: Unknown Arias for Soprano / Donath
• Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor / Klee
• Pfitzner: Das Christ-Elflein / Eichhorn
• Pfitzner: Palestrina / Kubelik
• Schubert: Sacred Works / Sawallisch
• Schubert: "The Shepherd on the Rock" / Donath
• Schubert: Masses, etc. / Sawallisch
• Schubert: Cantata Lazarus with Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bavarian Radio Orchestra
• Schumann: Requiem, etc. / Klee,
• Schumann: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Op. 112, Sawallisch
• Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Karajan, Berlin
• Weber: Der Freischütz / Sawallisch