June Anderson: Dal Vivo in Concerto [Import]

Vincenzo Bellini (Composer), Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez (Conductor), Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini Orchestra (Orchestra), June Anderson (Performer), Desdemona Malvisi (Performer), Vincenzo La Scola (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: June Anderson, Desdemona Malvisi, Vincenzo La Scola
• Orchestra: Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini Orchestra
• Conductor: Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez
• Composer: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi
• Audio CD (March 31, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bongiovanni
• ASIN: B0000044AN
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #779,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La battaglia di Legnano, opera: Quante volte come un dono

2. La sonnambula, opera: Come per me sereno... Sovra il sen la man mi posa

3. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera: Ancor non giunge... Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapita in estasi

4. La Traviata, opera: È strano... Ah fors'è lui... Sempre libera

5. Semiramide, opera: Bel raggio lusinghier

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mixed blessing, May 16, 2000

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matteo leoncini (New York NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: June Anderson: Dal Vivo in Concerto (Audio CD)

With so few June Anderson recordings available these days, sometimes we must settle for what we can get. The quality of this live recording is not the highest, but in no way inhibits enjoyment of the recording. Until someone releases a full Anderson recording of Lucia (I'm sure there's one locked up somewhere), we can enjoy the magnificent selection included here. Also first rate is her Sonnambula scene. Her rendering of the Traviata scene, however, is tarnished by the squawking of the completely outclassed tenor. Also, her Semiramide aria is better (and uncut) on her live Paris concert recording with Alfredo Kraus.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Live Performances, May 5, 2007

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Viva Caballe - See all my reviews

This review is from: June Anderson: Dal Vivo in Concerto (Audio CD)

I have to say this cd is a joy to listen to. June Anderson performs very technical bel canto singing beautifully, and does especially well with the extreme high notes. I think her high B flat and above are her most beautiful and thrilling notes. I must confess that, she sometimes sounds a little like Dame Joan Sutherland here. This is an italian import cd, which is now out of print, and very hard to come by. It is an even more precious find, since June Anderson solo cds are in very short supply. June is considered by many to be one of the greatest coloratura sopranos of the eighties and nineties. She studied to be a lawyer at yale university before deciding to devote her life full time to singing. June is a very smart and gifted Lady, with an exceptionally beautiful and agile instrument, and she was also an admirer of the great soprano Montserrat Caballe, which establishes she has marvelous taste in singers.
I love Bel Canto singing, and have heard it sung many times before, the standard bellini, donizetti, rossini fan fair, but not by June Anderson. Excellent singing throughout, beautiful radiant high notes and masterful coloratura.

Dal Vivo In Concerto is a very rare live album with excellent sound quality of June singing Bel Canto superlatively,
so I can find no reason not to recommend this album highly!