Beverly Sills and Friends

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BEVERLY SILLS
Beverly Sills and Friends
Beverly Sills (soprano) with other artists and accompaniments

[ Deutsche Grammophon Portrait of an Artist / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 13 May 2007

'America's Diva' Beverly Sills presents her hand-picked selection of opera and song recordings on an extraordinary overview of her illustrious recording legacy.

Soprano Beverly Sills and her special friends and colleagues together in opera and song.

'America's Diva' Beverly Sills presents her hand-picked selection of opera and song recordings on an extraordinary overview of her illustrious recording legacy. This 2-for-1 CD set features Sills performing music by Massenet, Donizetti, Bellini, Offenbach, Douglas Moore, and others. Sills is joined by many of her friends from New York City Opera's 'golden era,' including Julius Rudel, Nicolai Gedda, Paul Plishka, Shirley Verrett, Beverly Wolff, Norman Treigle, Emerson Buckley, Walter Cassel, and Carlo Bergonzi.

The album's liner notes are based on a new and exclusive interview with Beverly Sills, who reminisces about each of the arias on this special collection. 'Beverly Sills and Friends' is the perfect album to honor the stellar career and remarkable artistry of this great American soprano.

Tracks:

MASSENET:
Je marche sur tous les chemins | Obeissons, quand leur voix appelle | Un mot, s'il vous plait, Chevalier (Manon)

DONIZETTI:
Sulla tomba che rinserra | Chi mi frena in tal momento | Chi raffrena il mio furore (Sextet) (Lucia di Lammermoor)

BELLINI:
O amato zio - Sai com'arde in petto mio | Chi mosse a miei desir il genitor? | Odi.... Qual suon si desta (I puritani)

DONIZETTI:
Dio,che mi vedi in core | Sul suo capo aggravi un Dio | Dal mio cor punita io sono | Va, infelice, e teco reca (Anna Bolena)

DONIZETTI:
Nunzio son del Parlamento (Roberto Devereux)

DONIZETTI:
Deh! L'accogli! | Va, preparati furente (Maria Stuarda)

OFFENBACH:
Bell nuit, belle nuit d'amour (Bacarolle) | Cher ange! | Malheureux, tu ne comprends donc pas (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

MOORE:
Willow, where we meet together | Oh, Mr. Tabor | Warm as the autumn light (The Ballad of Baby Doe)

ADAM:
Ah, vous dirai-je, maman

SCHUBERT:
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen

HANDEL:
Meine Seele hört im Sehen

ARNE:
The Soldier Tir'd of war's alarms (Artaxerxes)

CALDARA:
La Rosa

BISHOP:
Lo Here the gentle lark

LEHÁR:
Einer wird kommen (Der Zarewitsch)