Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir - Albert Lortzing: Zum Gro�-Admiral

Ulf Schirmer recorded Albert Lortzing�s Regina in 2011 (CD: CPO 777710-2), and now yet another discovery from this composer�s opera oeuvre of a good dozen works is ready for release: the comic opera Zum Gro�-Admiral (The Grand Admiral). Today Lortzing�s name continues to appear in the opera performance repertoire mostly only in association with Zar und Zimmermann or Der Wildsch�tz, but during his lifetime he was known far and wide not only as a composer but also as a librettist, actor, singer, and conductor. It was