Barber - Vanessa
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New. Barber: Vanessa
Nicole Heaston (Vanessa), J'Nai Bridges (Erika), Matthew Polenzani (Anatol), Susan Graham (The Old Baroness), Thomas Hampson (The Old Doctor), National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
This new live Kennedy Center recording hits the mark. Noseda draws playing of real lustre from the National Symphony Orchestra. He is alert, too, to the score's unease...The more compelling... —
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Record Review, 30th May 2026, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
RecommendedEmma Bell (Vanessa), Virginie Verrez (Erika), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor) & Keith Warner (director)
Veteran Rosalind Plowright, moving down from soprano to mezzo repertoire, is an effective Baroness; Edgaras Montvidas is a fine Anatol with a handsome presence, if not quite in Nicolai Gedda’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - DVD/Blu-ray
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
RecommendedEmma Bell (Vanessa), Virginie Verrez (Erika), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrůša (conductor) & Keith Warner (director)
Veteran Rosalind Plowright, moving down from soprano to mezzo repertoire, is an effective Baroness; Edgaras Montvidas is a fine Anatol with a handsome presence, if not quite in Nicolai Gedda’s... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - DVD/Blu-ray
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
Susan Graham, Christine Brewer, William Burden, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Neal Davies
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Gian Carlo Menotti took as his starting-point for the libretto of Vanessa the atmosphere of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. His story is original, but the ideas that fired him can be found... —
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
Ellen Chickering, Andrea Matthews, Ray Bauwens, Marian Dry, Richard Conrad, Philip Lima
National Symphony Chorus & Orchestra of Ukraine, Gil Rose
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32
Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Eleanor Steber (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Regina Resnik (mezzo-soprano), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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Barber: Vanessa
Eleanor Steber (Vanessa), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol), Rosalind Elias (Erika), Regina Resnik (The Old Baroness), Giorgio Tozzi (The Old Doctor), George Cehanovsky (Nicholas), Robert Nagy (Footman)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Dimitri Mitropoulos
There is the great pleasure of hearing young Nicolai Gedda, enchanting of voice, greatly musical, singing faultless English...[Steber is] strong in temperament, generous of voice, and well inside... —
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Special offer. Barber: Vanessa
Eleanor Steber (Vanessa), Rosalind Elias (Erika), Ira Malaniuk (Baroness), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol), Giorgio Tozzi (old Doctor) & Alois Pernerstorfer (Nicholas)
Vienna State Opera & VPO, Dimitri Mitropoulos
