Tim Ashley 🏳️🌈 💙🤎💜<p>Richard Strauss's Die ägyptische Helena was first performed in Dresden <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1928.</p><p>So here's Leontyne Price singing the Awakening Scene with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Erich Leinsdorf. One of the most astonishing things on disc, it still takes my breath away fifty years after I first heard it.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQp7Wo4s20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=zUQp7Wo4s2</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/Strauss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strauss</span></a> <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/Helena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Helena</span></a> <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/LeontynePrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeontynePrice</span></a></p>