Denyce Graves, Chucho Valdés, José Marie Vitier, Pablo Ziegler, Eliane Elias
Ettore Stratta, Producer
BMG/RCA Red Seal 63726
Chosen "Best of the Year" by Opera News.
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Denyce Graves
DVD
Carmen Productions
"Denyce Graves with Patti LaBelle and Take 6. Conducted by Steven Murcurio. Recorded on June 19, 2003 before a live audience at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Song Highlights: Get Happy, Habanera from Carmen, Blues in the Night, Ave Maria, Way Up There (Patti LaBelle), Barcarolle from "The Tales of Hoffman", Ol' Man River, Joint is Jumpi', Smile (Take 6), American Anthem, Laid Down My Burdens. From Carmen Productions."
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American Anthem, America the Beautiful
& The Lord's Prayer
Compilation of various artists
BMG/RCA Red Seal
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American Anthem, America the Beautiful &
The Lord's Prayer
David Perry, guitar & string quartet
Carmen Productions
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Operatic Arias
Maurizio Barbacini conducting the Münchner Rundfunkorchester
BMG/RCA Red Seal
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Spirituals
Warren Jones, Pianist
NPR Classics NPR CD 0006
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Cathedral Festival Orchestra,
Charles Floyd, Conductor
PBS Productions
released on CD & video
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Lee Musiker, piano; Jay Lenhardt, bass
Songs include Norwegian Wood, How Do You Hear the Music Playing,
and Old Man River.
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"Like Beloved, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison, the opera Margaret Garner was inspired by the true story of a slave who was forced to become the mistress of a slave-owner. In 1856, she fled from Kentucky with her family to the free state of Ohio. Rather than allow her two little girls to be taken back into slavery, Margaret killed her own children. The case became a cause célèbre. Should Margaret be tried for murder--a tacit admission by the white establishment that slaves were human beings--or should she be tried for destruction of property because her children belonged to a slave owner?
Tunisian director Mustapha Hasnoui s documentary offers a backstage look at Margaret Garner, which not only includes scenes from the opera but also the story of Garner herself, plus a chronicle of the problems incurred in mounting this memorable production and a glimpse into the life of mezzo soprano Denyce Graves. His film subtly documents race relations in America and the need to reconcile the past and present."
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Marc Soustrot, Conductor
Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte-Carlo
FNAC Music 592056
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John DeMain, Conductor
Chorus & Orchestra of the
Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro
Sony Classical SK 52570
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Carmen: Pres des remparts de Seville
& Samson et Dalila: Amour!
Viens aider ma faiblesse!
Compilation of various artists
BMG/RCA Red Seal
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Compliation of various artists
Warner Bros. Records Inc.
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Nonesuch Records - 1998
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Nonesuch Records
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Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor
Orchestre et Choer de l'Opéra
de Paris Bastille
Deutsche Grammophon 439 805-2
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Antonio de Almeida, Conductor
Ambrosian Singers
The London Philharmonic
EMI Classics CDCC7 5480 2
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(G. Spontini)
Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Sony Classical
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James Levine, Conductor
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Deutsche Grammophon
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