The Ballad of Baby Doe
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Composer: Douglas S. MooreConductor: Emerson Buckley
Orchestra: New York City Opera Orchestra
Performer: Beverly Sills
Performer: Frances Bible
Performer: Walter Cassel
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Opening
- It's a hang-up job (Tabor, Cronies, Girls)
- Horace, what is this? (Augusta)
- I beg you pardon (Baby Doe)
- What a lovely evening (Leadville Ladies and Men)
- Willow, where we met together (Willow Song) (Baby Doe)
- Oh, Mr. Tabor (Baby Doe)
- Warm as the Autumn light (Tabor)
- Now, where do you suppose? (Augusta)
- Have you seen her? (Augusta)
- What are you looking for, Horace? (Augusta)
- Why, Mrs. Doe! (Hotel Clerk)
- Dearest Mama (Letter SonG0 (Baby Doe)
- Excuse me (Augusta)
- I knew it was wring (Baby Doe)
- No! No! No! (Baby Doe, Horace)
- What do you intend to do? (The friends and Augusta)
- Everything looks beautiful (Mama McCourt)
- Gold is a fine thing (Silver Aria) (Baby Doe)
- And I'll show yoy something else (Tabor)
- Opening
- The fine ladies (Baby Doe)
- Mama, go inside (Baby Doe)
- Augusta, what are you doing here? (Tabor)
- I'll raise you (The Four Cronies)
- Turn tail and run! (Tabor)
- La, la, la, la (Leadville Ladies)
- Good people of Leadville (William Jennings Bryan)
- Extra! Extra! (Newsboys)
- Augusta! Augusta! (Augusta)
- Hey, Mister! (Stage Doorman)
- The cattle are asleep (Tabor)
- Tabor owns the big hotel (Chorus)
- Horace! (Baby Doe)
- Always through the changing (Baby Doe)
Music reviews of The Ballad of Baby Doe
Music Review: just a few extra footnotes about the opera
Rating: 5 Stars
I came to Columbia Law School and New York City in 1961 and heard Sils sing Baby Doe shortly thereafter and fell totally in love. Douglas Moore taught in the Columbia music department and once a semester he would play the piano and sing this opera for his classes. If we could learn the day, all of us music lovers would sneak in to hear him. When I saw him he was teary eyed as he sang the final aria (known to us as the "Leadville Liebestod") Glorious as the music is, it is matched by LaTouche's lyrics. When Sils sang this in llve performance, no person with a heart could avoid bawling. But one should not overlook the fabulous work of Frances Bible who was the only one to ever get into the soul of Mrs. Tabor. All opera lovers should buy THIS recording.
Description of The Ballad of Baby Doe
Despite its somewhat Disneyesque title, The Ballad of Baby Doe is one of the sturdiest American operas. Its riches-to-rags story of Colorado miner Horace Tabor has a great plot, excellent characters, real arias, and dynamic chorus scenes, and none of it sounds second hand in the least. The opera has an extremely inviting personality of its own. This recording by the New York City Opera is full of crackling fast tempos from conductor Emerson Buckley and great theatricality: right down to the minor characters, everybody knows what they're about. Beverly Sills, Walter Cassel, and Frances Bible all inhabit their roles completely. The one drawback is the recording quality, which is good to voices but mushy on the orchestra. To know what's really going on in the piece musically, one must hear the similarly well-sung but more relaxed 1996 recording made at the venue where the opera was premiered: Central City Opera in Colorado. --David Patrick StearnsGeneral CDs
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