Kotzev was so pleased with the result that he decided to keep using multiple singers for future albums.
During 1984 Snow left, and the band went through a phaze of using several singers.
He said the foundation had been using singers who were in New York thanks to the Met's expenditures.
It also has an appealing mission to present both familiar and unusual works using young but accomplished singers.
Using professional singers for the leading roles and an amateur chorus, the company stages two productions a year.
And even the new recordings use native English-speaking singers in the leading roles.
It tends to use young British singers rather than international stars.
Later performances have frequently used singers and actors to replace the puppets.
He was already worried about losing the audience as a result of using African singers and dancers whom many people would not have heard of.
The production, which used Israeli and international singers, was not a special all-star, high-budget spectacle designed for opening night.