Discover “Samuel Barber - Barber - Vanessa”: One release from 1977, from UK - Available in Double LP
Samuel Barber

Barber - Vanessa

  • Double LP
  • RCA VictorRL 02094
  • 1977
  • UK
  • Barber - Vanessa (Box Set, Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz)

Box Set

Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz - Barber - Vanessa
Double LP - Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz - Barber - Vanessa - Box Set
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Barber - Vanessa (Box Set, Samuel Barber , Gian Carlo Menotti , Eleanor Steber , Nicolai Gedda , Rosalind Elias , Giorgio Tozz)

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(Stereo) 'Complete recording of original four-act version of opera, first performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, January 15, 1958.

Front of box shows detail from 'L'Élégante', by Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), and blurb at top right from The American Record Guide: 'Eleanor Steber ... is quite triumphant ... The conducting by Dimitri Mitropoulos brings out all the virtuosic orchestral comment on dramatic situations ... The recorded sound is excellent throughout.'

Back of box carries photograph of composer and notes by Francis Robinson, with price code (2XHH) at top right. A post-production white sticker repeats the price code, adding 'Specially imported by RCA RECORDS LTD. Under license from and on payment of royalty to the British copyright owners concerned.' Copyright date © 1977/58 at foot.

Label gives composer's year of birth (1910), and phonographic copyright as ℗ 77.

12-page libretto © 1957, G. Schirmer Inc.'[discogs]

1
Act I
24:35
2
Act II (Part 1)
04:13
4
Act IV (Conclusion)
27:39
1
Act II (Conclusion)
24:20
2
Act III (Part 1)
03:13
1
Act III (Conclusion)
17:40
2
Act IV (Part 1)
11:54
Artwork By
Édouard Vuillard
Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Chorus Master
Kurt Herbert Adler
Composed By
Samuel Barber
Conductor
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Libretto By
Gian Carlo Menotti
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Erika]
Rosalind Elias
Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra
Score
G. Schirmer Inc.
Sleeve Notes
Francis Robinson
Soprano Vocals [Vanessa]
Eleanor Steber
Tenor Vocals [Anatol]
Nicolai Gedda
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