Sally Silver
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Special offer. Balfe: Satanella (or ‘The Power of Love’)
Sally Silver (soprano), Catherine Carby (mezzo), Christine Tocci, Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-sopranos), Kang Wang (tenor), Quentin Hayes, Anthony Gregory, Frank Church (baritones), Travor Bowes (bass)
Victorian Opera Orchestra & John Powell Singers, Richard Bonynge
Satanella's stagey conventions and plonking couplets rather disconcertingly reveal what Gilbert and Sullivan were parodying. The only way to perform this is full-bloodedly. Richard Bonynge whips... —
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Special offer. Wallace, W V: Lurline
Keith Lewis (tenor), Paul Ferris (tenor), David Soar (bass-baritone), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Roderick Earle (bass), Sally Silver (soprano), Fiona Janes (mezzo) & Bernadette Cullen (mezzo)
Victorian Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Wallace’s music is easy on the ear, unfailingly mellifluous, and nimbly adept at broadening into bracing drama...Sally Silver is a seductive siren, Richard Lewis a sober (and rather mature-sounding)... —
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Les amoureuses sont des folles
Songs by Jules Massenet
Sally Silver (soprano), Christine Tocci (mezzo-soprano), Nico Darmanin (tenor), Gabriella Swallow (cello) & Richard Bonynge (piano)
a sumptuous collection of goodies to which Silver’s rich, full lyric instrument is ideally suited, and her French is excellent. Anyone who loves the Flower duet from Delibes’s Lakmé…will find... —
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Massenet; La vie d'une rose
Songs by Jules Massenet
Sally Silver (soprano), Christine Tocci (mezzo-soprano) & Richard Bonynge (piano)
As I was listening and making notes, I found myself ticking songs that appealed. I soon noticed that I was ticking practically every one of them. To make some sort of short list has therefore... —
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Arthur Sullivan: On Shore and Sea & Kenilworth
Sally Silver (soprano), Nico Darmanin (tenor), Louise Winter (mezzo), Donald Maxwell (bass-baritone)
Victorian Opera Northwest, Richard Bonynge
Much of the solo singing is attractive but it lacks a certain theatrical extroversion and character essential to Sullivan's genius for drama and his affinity for the Italian and French stage.... —
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[Silver's] charming soprano falls...comfortably on the ear...Charm is very much the order of the day here, and is displayed no less admirably in Richard Bonynge's devoted piano accompaniment. —
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Massenet: 'Ivre d'amour' - 28 songs for soprano and piano
Sally Silver (soprano), Richard Bonynge (piano)
A lovely overview of Massenet's extensive song output, with Richard Bonynge accompanying the South African coloratura soprano Sally Silver - a young singer who shares many of the vocal qualities... —
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Silver would not sound out of place in the (large) drawing rooms for which these songs were intended. This is a compliment, as too conventionally operatic a manner would be likely to overwhelm... —
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Tovey, D: The Bride of Dionysus (excerpts)
Sally Silver (soprano), Yvonne Fontane (mezzo-soprano), Robert Johnston (tenor) & Michael Bundy (baritone)
Ulster Orchestra & Belfast Philharmonic Choir, George Vass
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