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MANON

By Jules Massenet
VIDEO: Video of Beverly Sills in the NYCO series.
Reluctant recommendation on this one. Sills was the most magical
interpreter of this role for her generation, and there is simply no
other decent video available. But this production was taped at the
very end of her association with the role (1977), and the voice is
sadly worn and unsteady. Her drama is still shattering, and she has
splendid colleagues: Henry Price and the young Samuel Ramey. Julius
Rudel conducts. PAR 12701 [G.R.]
AUDIO: A) ANGEL: Victoria De Los Angeles, Legay;
Monteux conducting; mono
B) ANGEL (again, a company appears to have cornered the
market on one opera): Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Rudel conducting;
Sills is in much better shape here than in the VIDEO, but her
colleagues here and Rudel's conducting do not quite match their
counterparts on AUDIO #A with De Los Angeles and Monteux; this Sills
CD was recorded in superb stereo [G.R.]
For Further
Reading:
Manon
(Opera Guide, No. 25), by Jules Massenet
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