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Julius Rudel, Filene Center Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2001/1975)

Julius Rudel, Filene Center Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2001/1975)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 3.74 Gb (DVD5) | 132 min
Classical | VAI | Sub: English

Roberto Devereux, the last and probably the greatest opera Gaetano Donizetti composed for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, is based on the intense, tangled relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex, who was beheaded for treason in 1601. The role of the queen is one of the strongest in the bel canto soprano repertoire. In this video (essentially a New York City Opera production transplanted to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap performing arts center outside Washington, D.C.), Beverly Sills gives one of the great performances of her career.
Charles Mackerras, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2001)

Charles Mackerras, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 640 Mb | Total time: 65:55+69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Westminster | # 471 224-2 | Recorded: 1969

Elizabeth I in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux was, Beverly Sills has said, the role that took 10 years off her career, and indeed, it’s a fearsome undertaking. The very long role is composed over a slightly larger than two-octave span, and there are forte passages at both ends, both in ensembles and alone, and the sheer number of notes the character has to get out is awe-inspiring. Emotionally, too, the part is ripping: The elderly Elizabeth, in love with the Earl of Essex, who in turn loves Sara, the Duchess of Nottingham (forget real English history), is a ferocious monarch, comfortable and powerful only when ruling, and in private, a shattered woman, filled with vulnerabilities. Sills’ voice was at its pristine best in 1969, when this was recorded, before she sang it on stage. She is in absolute control of every resource she ever had: accurate roulades, brutal chest tones, full-bodied high notes, the ability to express both rage and joy, an impeccable bel canto line, stupendous breath control.
Julius Rudel, London Symphny Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2001)

Julius Rudel, London Symphny Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 935 Mb | Total time: 64:51+58:11+71:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Westminster | # 471 217-2 | Recorded: 1972

Anna Bolena premiered in 1830 and was Donizetti’s first great success–and it remains one of his finest works. Aside from his usual endless fount of melodies, we find through-composed scenes wherein recitative seamlessly melds into arioso and into aria or ensemble. Anna manages to come across as a real character, as does the unfortunate Jane Seymour, who has the (bad) luck to be Henry VIII’s new love; and Henry’s music, too, is composed effectively for this royal villain. Less successfully portrayed but still with a couple of fine arias and some stunning ensemble music is Anna’s brother Percy. He’s an earthbound character but his music is wonderful and difficult (it was composed for the legendary Rubini).
Aldo Ceccato, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (2010)

Aldo Ceccato, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Beverly Sills - Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 690 Mb | Total time: 72:35+79:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 93963 | Recorded: 1971

Maria Stuarda is one third of the so-called "three queen" trilogy that defined much of the career of Beverly Sills (along with Lucia, the three Hoffmann heroines, and Manon) in the early 1970s. It was quite an undertaking, and each–Stuarda, Anna Bolena, and Roberto Devereux–was recorded by the since-disapppeared ABC Audio Treasury Series. For reasons opera lovers have been wondering about for years, the recordings went out of print pretty quickly; but now, handsomely remastered, they are making their first appearance on CD, both individually and as a three-opera set. Stuarda also has been recorded by Joan Sutherland and Janet Baker (in a version Donizetti prepared for the lower-voiced Maria Malibran), and there are at least three "private" sets I know of with Montserrat Caballé in the title role.

Beverly Kenney - Five Classic Albums (Remastered) (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 16, 2023
Beverly Kenney - Five Classic Albums (Remastered) (2023)

Beverly Kenney - Five Classic Albums (Remastered) (2023)
WEB MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 366 MB
2:32:49 | Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: AVID Jazz

AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Beverly Kenney, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Sings For Johnny Smith"; "Come Swing With Me"; "Sings With Jimmy Jones & The Basie-Ites"; "Sings For Playboys" and "Like Yesterday".
Thomas Schippers, London Symphony Orchestra, Beverly Sills, Carlo Bergonzi - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2002)

Thomas Schippers, London Symphony Orchestra, Beverly Sills, Carlo Bergonzi - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 683 Mb | Total time: 70:03+76:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Westminster | # 471250 | Recorded: 1970

This Lucia was recorded in 1970, when Beverly Sills was at the peak of her vocal and dramatic powers. She had been singing the role of Lucia on stage for six years, and she knew the character. Here is a manic-depressive who is slightly crazy from the start, and Sills's embellishments to the vocal line (and there are tons of them; hardly a line is left as written), mostly composed especially for her, are always at the service of the drama. She is a far cry from the chirpy Pons and Peters (and even Sutherland, whose just-plain-singing of the role is unmatchable, but who was never all that interested in building character) and comes closer to Callas, but without the great Greek soprano's huge palette of colors or, for that matter, vocal limitations. Sills is gloriously fluent in the coloratura, the high notes are impeccable, and her reading of the words is truly involved and involving.
Julius Rudel, New York City Opera Orchestra, Beverly Sills - George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar / Giulio Cesare [1990]

Julius Rudel, New York City Opera Orchestra, Beverly Sills - George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar / Giulio Cesare [1990]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 703 Mb | Total time: 74:12+70:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA | # GD86182 | Recorded: 1967

Ever since the operas of Handel started to return to the stage in the 1920s, Giulio Cesare has been one of the pieces held in high regard. Always known by name through the most famous of Cleopatra’s arias (”V’adoro, pupille” and “Piangerò la sorte mia”) and often produced successfully in Germany, it has gathered a reputation as the best of the composer’s operas-the reasons for which can now be verified by anyone who acquires RCA Victor’s current release of the highly successful New York City Opera production.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 20, 2023
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:42:14 | 228 Mb
New Age, Soul, Folk | Label: Transgressive Records

Beverly-Glenn Copeland releases The Ones Ahead - his first new album in 20 years via Transgressive Records. For decades, the Pennsylvania-born, Canada-based singer, songwriter, and composer has illuminated questions of human interconnectedness with his sincere, searching voice and nimble melodicism. His new album, The Ones Ahead - his first collection of new music in nearly two decades - deepens his explorations into the ways all of us must carry each other forward into the next world.

Beverly Sills - The Great Recordings (2004)  Music

Posted by Rtax at April 4, 2022
Beverly Sills - The Great Recordings (2004)

Beverly Sills - The Great Recordings (2004)
FLAC (tracks) - 572 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 279 MB
2:01:04 | Classical, Opera | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

The album includes some rarities, among them "Mira, o Norma" from Norma and "Santo di patria" from Attila. It also features excerpts from Sills' complete recording of Massenet's Manon plus excerpts from La Traviata and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Readers familiar with Yogi Berra might comment that it's déjà vu all over again, as it has been not even two years since Deutsche Grammophon devoted a two-CD compilation to Beverly Sills. That one was called The Art of Beverly Sills (DG 471766-2), and it included 134 minutes of excerpts from "Bubbles's" operatic recordings and recitals. The Great Recordings does not copy a single note of what was on the earlier compilation, which is good, but I must grumble that the result is that Sills' Mozart and Richard Strauss record – one of my favorites – now has been divided between two separate releases and three separate discs, and that excerpts from her complete recordings of Manon and Hoffmann are similarly scattered. So much for continuity! Perhaps DG will repackage the two 2-CD sets and reunite the divided material. Better yet, perhaps they will embark on a comprehensive "Sills Edition" of everything they can get their hands on, and release it at a very reasonable price!

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 25, 2023
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 222 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 MB
42:10 | New Age, Jazz, Folk | Label: Transgressive

In the tumult of this world, there are constants. People need each other. Every motion brushes against others, moving. None of us are siloed and none of us are still. The music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland drinks deeply from these truths. For decades, the Philadelphia-born, Canada-based singer, songwriter, and composer has drawn myriad musical practices toward a single, luminous conviction: that music can shake us loose from what closes us off from each other. His multifaceted body of work surrenders to the beauty, pain, and great capacity for healing that courses through life; in its unguarded sincerity, it invites you to share in its courage.