The Very Best of Beverly Sills
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Performer: Alan TitusPerformer: Donald Gramm
Performer: John Rawnsley
Performer: Rolando Panerai
Performer: Sherrill Milnes
Performer: Malcolm King
Performer: Samuel Ramey
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Franz Lehar
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Aldo Ceccato
Conductor: James Levine
Conductor: Julius Rudel
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Conductor: Sarah Caldwell
Conductor: Thomas Schippers
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Act 1. Una voce poco fa
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Act 1. Dunque io son
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Act 2. Contro un cor
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Act 2. Ah, qual colpo inaspettato!
- Rigoletto, opera: Act 1. ? il sol dell'anima...Addio! speranza ed anima
- Rigoletto, opera: Act 1. Gualtier Mald?...Caro nome
- Rigoletto, opera: Act 2. Tutte le feste al tempio...Compiuto pur quanto...S?, vendetta
- Rigoletto, opera: Act 3. V'ho ingannato...Lass? in cielo
- Don Pasquale, opera: Act 1. Quel guardo il cavaliere...So Anch'io la virt? magica
- Don Pasquale, opera: Act 1. Pronta io son...Vado, corro
- Don Pasquale, opera: Act 3. Via, caro sposino
- Don Pasquale, opera: Act 3. Tornami a dir che m'ami
- Don Pasquale, opera: Act 3. La morale in tutto questo
- Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), operetta: Act 2. Vilia
- Tha?s, opera in 3 acts: Act 2. Ah! je suis seule...Dis-moi que je suis belle
- Le si?ge de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth), opera: Act 2. Cielo! che diverr??...S?, ferite...Dal soggiorno...Ah! che spiegar
- La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Libiamo ne' lieti calici
- La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Un d? felice, eterea
- La Traviata, opera: Act 1. ? strano...Ah, fors'? lui...Follie! follie!...Sempre libera
- La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Pura siccome un angelo...Ah! dite alla giovine
- La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Che fai?
- La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Addio del passato
- La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Parigi, o cara
Music reviews of The Very Best of Beverly Sills
Music Review: Sublime voice - unique collection
Rating: 5 Stars
A sublime voice in an outstanding collection. This is a unique collection of Beverly Sills's arias and moving performances. Even if you are not a Beverly Sills fan this CD is a must in any opera lover's collection.
Description of The Very Best of Beverly Sills
Details TBA. EMI. 2005.Beverly Sills hardly needs an introduction. She sang on the radio as a child and on the operatic stage as a teenager; her meteoric international career was launched by appearances in several virtually unknown bel canto operas at the New York City Opera. This compilation of arias and ensembles from some of her signature roles, recorded in the 1970s, with splendid partners like Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, and Sherrill Milnes, displays her unique vocal and dramatic artistry at its peak. Her voice, effortlessly produced over an enormous range, is bright, pure, infinitely variable in color, inflection and intensity. Her intonation is impeccable even in huge leaps, and her breath is endless. The coloratura roulades are like strings of perfect, luminous pearls, clearly articulated in seamless legato. But this stunning technique (whose only flaw is a sometimes wide, wobbly vibrato) is never used for show; every note has life and expression, serving the music and the dramatic situation. Indeed, her characters are flesh-and-blood human beings, whose thoughts, emotions and interactions, from inwardness to ecstasy, from lamentation to overflowing joy, she projects with riveting concentration. Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville is a charming, mischievous minx who succumbs to delighted tenderness; Pamira's great scene from his Siege of Corinth shows clearly why her Metropolitan Opera debut in that role was a sensation. In Verdi's Rigoletto, Gilda's hopeful innocence turns into hopeless despair: she dies, palpably, on a floating, celestial pianissimo. In his La traviata, Violetta's initial cool, hesitant restraint gradually melts as she opens herself (and her voice) to Alfredo's ardor and the bliss of love. The vocal balance in their final duet is uncanny; its tremulous tenderness in the shadow of death breaks the heart, as does her duet with Germont. Massenet's Thais is sensuous; Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Leh?r's The Merry Widow provide comic relief. --Edith Eisler
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Donizetti, Gaetano
- ( L ) > Leh?r, Franz
- ( M ) > Massenet, Jules
- ( R ) > Rossini, Gioacchino
- ( V ) > Verdi, Giuseppe
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( L ) > London Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( N ) > New York Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( S ) > Sills, Beverly
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Operettas
- Donizetti, Gaetano - Works by Donizetti
- Massenet, Jules - Works by Massenet
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( L ) - Leh?r, Franz - General
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