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- opera singer, music teacher
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2022-05-11 06:36:37
Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs, Dylan Perez & friends survey nearly 50 years of the composer's songs including those unpublished during his lifetime
[…] the Irish connection, but here anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries, in translations by W. H. Auden, Chester Kallman, Howard Mumford Jones, Kenneth H. Jackson and Seán Ó Faoláin. Some are quite short, almost aphoristic and each creates a strong, direct atmosphere, neither the vocal writing nor the piano is at all decorative. They were premiered by one grand dame, Leontyne Price, and recorded by another, Eleanor Steber, but here Mary Bevan makes them very much her own, giving each song an intimacy that draws you in, each one a tiny personal statement. Barber's opera Vanessa premiered in 1958 and won him a Pullitzer Prize. His next opera, Anthony and Cleopatra was chosen to open the New Metropolitan Opera in 1966; the work sank under the weight of expectations, technical problems and Franco Zefferelli's over-blown production. Depression followed. Despite and Still, Op. 41 came afterwards in 1968. […]
2021-11-16 03:00:00
Opera Recitals Post 2 of 3 (Rysanek. L, Borkh. I, Verrett. S, Steber. E, Tucker. R)
[…] Anna Bolena) Donizetti: Per questa fiamma indomita (from Anna Bolena) Donizetti: Fia dunque vero…O mio Fernando (from La Favorita) Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Premiers transports que nul n'oublie Berlioz: D'amour l'ardente flamme (from La Damnation de Faust) Gounod: Ô ma lyre immortelle (from Sapho) Massenet: Werther! Werther!…Je vous écris de ma petite chambre (from Werther) Saint-Saëns: Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) Eleanor Steber sings Mozart & Gounod (1940) Mozart: Martern aller Arten (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) Mozart: Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (from Le nozze di Figaro) Mozart: Giunse alfin il momento... Deh, vieni, non tardar… (from Le nozze di Figaro) Mozart: Porgi amor (from Le nozze di Figaro) Mozart: Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Mozart: Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) Verdi: È strano! […]
2021-10-30 03:00:00
Opera Recitals (Freni. M, Moffo. A, Caballe. M, Price. L, Scotto. R)
[…] Sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) Puccini: Vissi D'arte (from Tosca) Puccini: Signore, Ascolta! (fromn Turandot) Puccini: Tu Che Di Gel Sei Cinta (from Turandot) Rome Opera House Orchestra, Oliviero De Fabritiis (conductor) *Rome Opera House Orchestra, Arturo Basile (conductor) (1959) These are from a box set called "Voix Les Grands Recitals" which reproduces 15 classic recitals from Sony/BMG. If there is interest I can post the next 5 (Rysanek, Borkh, Verrett, Steber & Tucker) and then 5 more (Domingo, Vickers, Milnes, London & Wunderlich). I do hope you enjoy. The Anna Moffo and Leontyne Price are exceptional in my opinion.
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