Offer,Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street
Gabrielle Ruggiero (Annina), David Poleri (Michele), Gloria Lane (Desideria), Maria Di Gerlando (Carmela) & Leon Lishner (Don Marco)
Orchestra and Chorus, Instrumental Ensemble and Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Lurid slice of religiose Manhattan verismo, powerfully sung and played - with The Unicorn, a sly madrigalian fable, providing a delightful contrast. — More…
2 CDs
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Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street
- Maria Marlo (soprano), Elizabeth Carron (soprano), Leon Lishner (bass), Gabrielle Ruggiero (soprano), Catherine Akos (mezzo-soprano), Richard Cassilly (tenor), Maria Di Gerlando (soprano), Lucy Becque (actress), Russell Goodwin (baritone), John Reardon (baritone), Gloria Lane (mezzo-soprano), David Poleri (tenor), Ernesto Gonzales (actor), David Aiken (baritone), Keith Kaldenberg (tenor)
- Studio orchestra, Studio chorus
- Thomas Schippers
- Recorded: February - March 1955
- Recording Venue: New York City, USA
Act I Scene 1: Introduction - Rosa Mystica (Assunta, Chorus, A Young Man)
Act I Scene 1: Well … I'm tired of waiting! (Maria Corona, Assunta, Carmela, Chorus, A Young Woman)
Act I Scene 1: The vision has begun (Don Marco, Chorus)
Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore, or The 3 Sundays of a Poet
- Hallie Nowland (soprano), Martha Reynolds (soprano), Anna Julia Hoyt (contralto), Laurel Miller (contralto), Jan Ruetz (contralto), Frank Karian (tenor), Loren Glickman (bassoon), Harry Shulman (oboe), Stanley Koor (percussion), Jean Heisey (soprano), Betty Hodges (soprano), Eva Wolff (soprano), Mary Hensley (contralto), Carol Jones (contralto), John Parella (bass), Carols Sherman (bass), Walter Lewis (clarinet), Julius Baker (flute), Theodore Weis (trumpet), Gloria Agostini (harp), Lindsey Bergen (tenor), Clifton Steere (tenor), Howard Kahl (bass), Raymond Michalski (bass), Stuart Sankey (double bass), Charles McCracken (cello), Rosemarie Radman (soprano), Nancy Hall (contralto), Charles Anderson (tenor), Lee Wade (tenor), Robert Yeager (tenor), Peter Sliker (bass), Marvin Solley (bass)
- Thomas Schippers
- Recorded: 1957
- Recording Venue: New York City, USA
Introduction (Chorus)
Interlude 1
Madrigal 1 (Chorus)