Rise Stevens in Opera and Song
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Artist: Rise StevensBrand: Kultur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Classical, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
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Movie Review: If you love Rise Stevens you must have this DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Why did Rise Stevens rule the MET for so long? Why was she considered the Carmen of her generation? For those of us too young or living in the wrong place to have heard her live, this DVD is one of the few records of her voice, her acting and her abilitiy to captivate an audience. The sound has a limited frequency range, the images are soft but except for one song toward the end, where the lighting over exposes her facial features, the DVD is fine. It is, as noted by others, an historic recording, but it much better than nothing. For those who want to hear more of this wonderful singer there is a CD of her Carmen remastered from 1953 with Jan Peerce as Don Jose
Summary of Rise Stevens in Opera and Song
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 Risė 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 Risė 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 Risė Stevens? appearances on the Voice Of Firestone series is highlighted by three selections from Saint-Saėns? 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 / Habańera from Carmen; Schubert / Ave Maria; Lecuona / Siboney. Howard Barlow, Conductor. Firestone: Introduction and If I Could Tell You (2/7/55); Saint-Saėns / 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).Similar DVD Movies
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