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Rise Stevens in Opera and Song |  | Artist: Rise Stevens
Studio: Kultur Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Sales Rank: 211806
Format: Black & White, Classical, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: KLTD4052D
UPC: 032031405295
EAN: 0032031405295
ASIN: B000EGDBNI
Release Date: March 28, 2006
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Description
For more than thirty years, The Voice Of Firestone brought the world’s greatest artists into the homes of music lovers, first through radio broadcasts, and later through their innovative telecasts. Now, through a special arrangement with the New England Conservatory in Boston, Kultur Video is proud to make these rare telecasts available to today’s audience on DVD. Mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1938, and was immediately recognized as a uniquely gifted singer, possessing a voice of exceptional beauty and evenness, and a dramatic presence worthy of the finest stage actresses. Add this to her striking physical beauty, and one has all the ingredients for a perfect Carmen, the role most often associated with Stevens, and one in which she set new standards of vocal and dramatic interpretation. Her incredible versatility is evident in these telecasts, as she moves effortlessly from the easy charm if Richard Rodgers’ Falling In Love With Love to the gripping drama of the Card Scene from Bizet’s Carmen. During the course of her spectacular career, mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens set new standards of vocal and dramatic excellence for American singers. Her debut with the Metropolitan Opera took place in 1938, in the role of Octavian in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, marking the start of an enduring relationship with that company which extended well past Miss Stevens’ career as a singer. This second volume devoted to Risë Stevens’ appearances on the Voice Of Firestone series is highlighted by three selections from Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, which, next to Carmen, is perhaps the opera most associated with Miss Stevens. In these, and the other songs and arias presented on this program, Miss Stevens demonstrates the vocal refinement and interpretive mastery which set apart as one of this country’s most acclaimed opera singers. Telecast of October 1, 1951: Rodgers-Hart / Falling In Love With Love; Bizet / Card Scene From Carmen; Friml / L’Amour Toujours L’Amour, Telecast of April 2, 1951: Schumann / Widmung (Dedication); Rodgers & Hammerstein /It Might As Well Be Spring; Berlin / They Say It’s Wonderful; Bizet / Gypsy Song from Carmen. Telecast of April 2, 1951: Kern / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Bizet / Argonaise from Carmen (Orchestra only); Bizet / Habañera from Carmen; Schubert / Ave Maria; Lecuona / Siboney. Howard Barlow, Conductor. Firestone: Introduction and If I Could Tell You (2/7/55); Saint-Saëns / Selections from Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale (Orchestra only) (2/7/55), Rachmaninoff / To The Children (6/23/52); Rodgers & Hammerstein / People Will Say We’re In Love ( from Oklahoma) (7/23/51); Stolz / The Sweetest Story Ever Told (7/23/51); Herbert / I’m Falling In Love With Someone (from Naughty Marietta) (7/23/51); Mozart / Voi che sapete (from Le Nozze di Figaro (2/16/59)); Debussy / Air de Lia (from L’Enfant Prodigue) (2/16/59); Berlin / Always (9/23/57); Bizet / Seguidille (from Carmen); Dietz-Schwartz / Dancing In The Dark (9/23/57); Firestone / Closing and In My Garden (9/23/57). Conductors: Wilfrid Pelletier (telecasts 2/7/55), Howard Barlow (telecasts of 6/23/52, 7/23/51 & 9/23/57), Walter Hendl (telecasts of 2/16/59).
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