Movies: Grace Bumbry

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exp...

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This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the p...

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Bumbry with accompanist Helmut Deutsch performs works by Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Berlioz, Schumann, Strauss, Obradors, and Bizet live in Paris in memory of her teacher Lotte Lehmann. Also included are short inteviews with Bumbry...

Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles. Louis Quilico was never quite in that league, and he soun...