Fritz Wunderlich Tamino, opposite baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role of Papageno. There is also a live performance of "The Magic Flute" recorded in 1960 at the Salzburg Festival, and several recordings as Belmonte in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail". Recordings also exist of lesser-known Mozart operas such as "Zaide" and "La finta giardiniera" Wunderlich's crystal-clear voice, exquisite diction, and intelligent but passionate interpretation also led him to impressive renditions of the lieder cycles of Schubert and Schumann with pianist , who was also his artistic mentor. His famous recording of Schumann's "Dichterliebe" remains a gold standard of this genre. Many tenors
Agrippina (opera) hypocritical; Claudius is pompous, complacent, and something of a buffoon, while Poppaea, the first of Handel's sex kittens, is also a liar and a flirt. The freedmen Pallas and Narcissus are self-serving and salacious. All, however, have some redeeming features, and all have arias that express genuine emotion. The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes comic, but never farcical—like Mozart in the Da Ponte operas, Handel avoids laughing at his characters. In "Agrippina" the "da capo" aria is the musical form used to illustrate character in the context of the opera. The first four arias of the work