Vanessa

by Samuel Barber

Vanessa cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:53:46
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work represents a major triumph in American grand opera. The lush, neo-romantic score brims with psychological tension and sweeping melancholy, cementing the composer's reputation for deep, accessible lyricism in a modernist age.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, orchestral, operatic, vocal, melodic, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Potage cr猫me aux perles" (3:31)
  2. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "No, I cannot understand" (4:58)
  3. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Must the winter come so soon?" (2:16)
  4. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Listen!...They are here... (1:37)
  5. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Do not utter a word, Anatol" (4:45)
  6. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Yes, I believe I shall love you" (1:50)
  7. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 1: "Who are you?" (5:39)
  8. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2:" And then? - He made me drink" (4:09)
  9. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2:"No, you are not as good a skater" (2:59)
  10. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2: "Under the willow tree.." (2:21)
  11. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2: "Erika, I am so happy" (1:18)
  12. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2: "Our arms entwined" (4:02)
  13. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2 "Did you hear her?" (4:01)
  14. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2: "Outside this house the world has changed" (5:11)
  15. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I, Scene 2: Orchestral Interlude - Hymn (4:34)
  16. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: The Count and the Countess d'Albany (3:16)
  17. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: "I should never have been a doctor" (3:14)
  18. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: "Here you are!" (1:24)
  19. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: "At last I found you" (6:22)
  20. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: "Nothing to worry about" (6:25)
  21. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1: "Why did no one warn me (4:27)
  22. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1: "Why must the greatest sorrows" (2:02)
  23. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1: "There, look!" (5:25)
  24. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1: "Anatol, tell me the truth!" (1:05)
  25. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1. "Take me away" (1:25)
  26. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1:"Grandmother! Yes, Erika" (2:17)
  27. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 1: Intermezzo (3:32)
  28. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 2: "By the time we arrive" (1:02)
  29. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 2: "For every love there is a farewell" (2:20)
  30. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 2: "And you, my friend" (6:08)
  31. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 2: "To leave, to break" (3:43)
  32. Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III, Scene 2: "Goodby, Erika" (6:13)

Credits

  • Samuel Barber - primary artist, composed by
  • Dimitri Mitropoulos - primary artist, conductor
  • Metropolitan Opera Chorus - primary artist, chorus
  • George Cehanovsky - baritone vocals [the major-domo]
  • Giorgio Tozzi - bass vocals [the old doctor], bass vocals [raimondo]
  • Regina Resnik - contralto vocals [the old baroness]
  • Gian Carlo Menotti - libretto by
  • Rosalind Elias - mezzo-soprano vocals [erika], mezzo-soprano vocals [laura]
  • Gaetano Donizetti - composed by
  • Amilcare Ponchielli - composed by
  • Pietro Mascagni - composed by

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