Special offer. Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
Keith Phares (Elmer Gantry), Patricia Risley (Sharon Falconer), Vale Rideout (Frank Shallard), Frank Kelley (Eddie Fislinger) & Heather Buck (Lulu Baines)
Florentine Opera Chorus, Florentine Opera Company & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Engineered Album, Classical
It’s tremendous fun — full of lush, old-fashioned melodies, showbizzy orchestration, rip-roaring ensembles and pastiche hymns, spirituals and gospel numbers. Darker and deeper than Lewis’s...
Special offer. Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
Keith Phares (Elmer Gantry), Patricia Risley (Sharon Falconer), Vale Rideout (Frank Shallard), Frank Kelley (Eddie Fislinger) & Heather Buck (Lulu Baines)
Florentine Opera Chorus, Florentine Opera Company & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Boggs
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Engineered Album, Classical
It’s tremendous fun — full of lush, old-fashioned melodies, showbizzy orchestration, rip-roaring ensembles and pastiche hymns, spirituals and gospel numbers. Darker and deeper than Lewis’s...
About
Set just before World War I, Sinclair Lewis’s incendiary novel Elmer Gantry tells a story of old-time religion, illicit romance and revenge.
Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s operatic adaptation is a “marvellous amalgam of toe-tapping accessibility” Opera News full of hymns, gospel songs, marches and dance, evoking the period in a score which echoes Gershwin and Copland.
This all-American production combines a first-rate cast of singers and a world-class orchestra for “an intoxicating experience” The New York Times.
Contents and tracklist
- Keith Phares, Vale Rideout, Aaron Blankfield, Matthew Lau, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Matthew Richardson, Scott Johnson, William Johnson, Katie Koester, Patricia Risley, Keith Phares, Sarah Lewis Jones, Linda S. Ehlers, Nathan Krueger, Paul Helm, Heather Buck, Vale Rideout, Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and William, Linda S. Ehlers, Paul Helm, Nathan Krueger, Sarah Lewis Jones, Patricia Risley, Katie Koester, William Johnson, Scott Johnson, Matthew Richardson, Jamie Offenbach
- Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- William Boggs
- Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Margaret Wendt, Vale Rideout, Jamie Offenbach, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Matthew Lau, Julia Elise Hardin, Aaron Blankfield, Scott Johnson, William Johnson
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Florentine Opera Chorus
- William Boggs
Awards and reviews
13th August 2011
It’s tremendous fun — full of lush, old-fashioned melodies, showbizzy orchestration, rip-roaring ensembles and pastiche hymns, spirituals and gospel numbers. Darker and deeper than Lewis’s original, it deserves a European staging. Punchy, characterful singing and feisty playing from the Milwaukee Symphony.
