Composer: Samuel Barber
Performer: Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Giorgio Tozzi, George Cehanovsky, Robert Nagy
Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: RCA
Catalogue: 88697446172
Release: 2009
Size: 514 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Vanessa
Act 1
01. Potage crème aux perles
02. No, I cannot understand
03. Must the winter come so soon?
04. Listen!…They are here…
05. Do not utter a word, Anatol
06. Yes, I believe I shall love you
07. Who are you?
Act 2
08. And Then?… He made me drink
09. No, you are not as good a skater
10. Under the willow tree…
11. Erika, I am so happy
12. Our arms entwined
13. Did you hear her?
14. Outside this house the world has changed
15. Orchestral Interlude – Hymn
Act 3
16. The Count and the Countess d’Albany
17. I should never have been a doctor
18. Here you are!
19. At last I found you
20. Nothing to worry about
Act 4
21. Why did no one warn me?
22. Why must the greatest sorrows
23. There, look!
24. Anatol, tell me the truth!
25. Take me away from this house
26. Grandmother! – Yes, Erika
27. Intermezzo
28. By the time we arrive in Paris
29. For every love these is a last farewell
30. And you, my friend
31. To leave, to break (Quintet)
32. Goodbye, Erika
Samuel Barber’s first opera was an outstanding success when first performed in 1958 at the Metropolitan opera and this recording was made with the original cast and conductor. Eleanor Steber (for whom Barber had written Knoxville) created the title role. The work follows traditional operatic form with arias, duets and ensembles within an essentially romantic — and sometimes nostalgic —musical language characteristic of Barber’s other works.
Recorded in 1958