Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Fleming, Futral, Gilfry, Griffey, SF Opera, Previn

Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Fleming, Futral, Gilfry, Griffey, SF Opera, Previn

Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Fleming, Futral, Gilfry, Griffey, SF Opera, Previn
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-12-22
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Act 1. Scene 1.: They told me to take a streetcar named Desire
  2. Act 1. Scene 1.: Blanche!/Stella! Oh Stella!
  3. Act 1. Scene 1.: I can hardly stand it
  4. Act 1. Scene 1.: You left! I stayed and I struggled!
  5. Act 1. Scene 1.: I... I... I... took the blows on my face
  6. Act 1. Scene 1.: Hey Mitch! Come back here
  7. Act 1. Scene 1.: You must be Stanley. I'm Blanche
  8. Act 1. Scene 2.: Hiyah, sweethart
  9. Act 1. Scene 2.: Let me enlighten you on a point or two
  10. Act 1. Scene 2.: Hello Stanley. Do you mind?
  11. Act 1. Scene 2.: Here! There are thousands of papers
  12. Act 1. Scene 3.: Well, I ought to be getting home
  13. Act 1. Scene 3.: Yes? Oh, hello
  14. Act 1. Scene 3.: Stella!/Stanley, that's my... What are you doing
  15. Act 1. Scene 3.: Hmmm.../Stella? Stella?
Music CD 2
  1. Act 2. Prologue
  2. Act 2. Scene 1.: Say, Blanche... Do you happen to know
  3. Act 2. Scene 1.: Soft people have got to shimmer and glow
  4. Act 2. Scene 1.: Ah me... Ah me... Come in
  5. Act 2. Scene 1.: Don't you love these rainy afternoons?
  6. Act 2. Scene 1.: What's the time? Come on, Mitch
  7. Act 2. Scene 2.: Fraid you didn't have much fun
  8. Act 2. Scene 2.: I work out with the weights
  9. Act 2. Scene 2.: Blanche... How old are you?
  10. Act 2. Scene 2.: I'm not a boy, she says
  11. Act 2. Scene 2.: He was a boy when I was a very young girl
Music CD 3
  1. Act 3. Prologue
  2. Act 3. Scene 1.: What's all this for?
  3. Act 3. Scene 1.: You should just know the line
  4. Act 3. Scene 1.: What time is it?
  5. Act 3. Scene 1.: Stanley tell us a joke
  6. Act 3. Scene 1.: Stell, it's gonna be all right
  7. Act 3. Scene 1.: Yes... Don't light these pretty, pretty little candles
  8. Act 3. Scene 1.: Me and you when we first met
  9. Act 3. Scene 2.: Who is it, please?
  10. Act 3. Scene 2.: It's dark in here
  11. Act 3. Scene 2.: Real! Who wants real?
  12. Act 3. Scene 2.: I don't mind your being older
  13. Act 3. Scene 3.: Take a look at yourself
  14. Act 3. Scene 3.: Operator, operator, give me long distance
  15. Act 3. Scene 3.: Interlude
  16. Act 3. Scene 4.: Damn your luck
  17. Act 3. Scene 4.: I'll wear the cool yellow silk
  18. Act 3. Scene 4.: I can smell the sea air
  19. Act 3. Scene 4.: That must be them
  20. Act 3. Scene 4.: These fingernails need to be trimmed

Music reviews of Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Fleming, Futral, Gilfry, Griffey, SF Opera, Previn

Music Review: Well I had no expectations so...
Rating: 4 Stars

I'm gradually liking this opera. I've recently gotten into opera and I love 'streetcar' so I bought this. The music is great, and so is the singing. But the constant sing-talking is obnoxious, in my opinion. I know it doesn't bother some, so obviously this is a point-of-view thing, but to be honest I'd rather they just spoke or sang more of it than the sing-talk. There were moments when I would've preferred hearing just the background music. The story, though, is good, of course. If you like streetcar, check it out.

Description of Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Fleming, Futral, Gilfry, Griffey, SF Opera, Previn

This Deutsche Grammophon recording stems from San Francisco Opera's 1998 premiere production of Andr? Previn's opera based on the harrowing Tennessee Williams play, with the composer himself at the helm of a strong and supportive cast. Previn's eclectic style embraces rather than challenges operatic conventions. He evokes Williams's New Orleans setting through loping, jazz-tinged motives and wistful, asymmetrical commentaries from solo winds and brass. By contrast, Previn reveals the protagonists' sense of longing and alienation by way of lyrical set pieces scored with lush economy. Philip Littell's libretto emerges at a leisurely gait, while the music underscores and follows the action with dramatic restraint instead of leaping center stage. Similarly, the cast's Southern accents are distinct but never distracting. Ren?e Fleming handles Blanche's taxing tessitura with effortless aplomb, although she sacrifices diction for tone in her middle register. Elisabeth Futral's light, agile soprano suits Stella's vulnerability to a fare-thee-well, while Rodney Gilfrey is careful to a fault in not letting Stanley Kowalski lapse into caricature. Most valuable player award, however, goes to Anthony Dean Griffey, who infuses Blanche's wooer Mitch with immense dignity and a sense of need. Stage noises and between-numbers applause may enhance the recording's sense of occasion, but they distract as much as those few niggling instances of thin string tone and shaky intonation. That's why God invented studio patching sessions. Still, Streetcar proves a solid achievement overall, priced at three discs for two, with full texts and annotations. --Jed Distler

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