Denyce Graves
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Kevin Puts: The Hours
Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kelli O'Hara (Laura Brown), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Denyce Graves (Sally)
Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Listening to it is an absorbing, even harrowing, experience...Puts’s music is tonal, broadly melodic and full of striking orchestral detail. His writing for the three principal female voices... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Vladimir Chernov (Rigoletto), Cheryl Studer (Gilda), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Sparafucile), Denyce Graves (Maddalena), Jane Shaulis (Giovanna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Monterone), Dwayne Croft (Marullo), Paul Groves (Borsa), Yanni Yannissis (Il Conte di Ceprano), Heidi Grant...
Levine conducts a thrustful, exceptionally high-powered reading of Rigoletto, vividly dramatic. The sound is full and immediate...Chernov is a firm, clear, virile Rigoletto...Studer is a tenderly... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Cheryl Studer (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Ramón Vargas (Cassio), Michael Schade (Rodrigo), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Lodovico), Giacomo Prestia (Montano), Denyce Graves (Emilia)
Bastille Opera, Myung-Whun Chung
theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to bring off out of it. For some years now, Domingo has been, on stage, the greatest Otello of our age. On record, though, he has had less success. Leiferkus... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2001, First Choice
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedEric Owens (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess), Latonia Moore (Serena), Golda Schultz (Clara), Denyce Graves (Maria), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Alfred Walker (Crown), Ryan Speedo Green (Jake), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, David Robertson
The chorus supplies precision and refulgent tone, while the orchestral playing is clean and idiomatic, with conductor David Robertson shaping an interpretation that is well-paced and offers... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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American Anthem
Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano), Robert Chaufow (violin), Joyce Hammann (violin), Olivia Koppell (viola), Jesse Levy (cello), David Perry (guitar), John Oliver (chorus master), John Oliver (Tanglewood Festival Chorus) (chorus master), Charles Floyd (Boston Pops Gospel Choir) (chorus master), Reuben...
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Concert for Planet Earth
Plácido Domingo (tenor), Gal Costa (vocal), Antonio Carlos Jobim (piano), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Herlin Riley (drums), Eric Reed (piano), Reginald Veal (bass), Wes Anderson (alto saxophone), Todd Williams (soprano saxophone), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Sarah Chang (violin), Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)
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Escape Through Opera
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Ying Huang (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Risë Stevens (mezzo-soprano), Karita Mattila...
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Absolute Masterworks - Opera
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Alan Titus (baritone), Julia Varady (soprano), Ezio Flagello (bass vocal), Leontyne Price (soprano), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Teresa Berganza (soprano), Ruggero Raimondi (bass vocal), Orchestra of The Theatre National...
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French Opera Arias
Works from Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila & Massenet's Werther
Denyce Graves
Orchestre Philarmonique De Monte-Carlo, Marc Soustrot
Denyce Graves has made the role of Dalila very much her own in recent years and the two arias from Saint-Saëns's opera are among the best things on her showcase recital, recorded in 1993. Two... — More…
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