Recordings
Barber: Vanessa
Tracks
| Disc 1 | |
| 1. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Introduction |
| 2. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Potage creme aux perles (Erika) |
| 3. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: No, I cannot understand why? (Vanessa) |
| 4. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Must the winter come so soon? (Erika) |
| 5. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Listen!? they are here (Erika) |
| 6. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Do not utter a word, Anatol (Vanessa) |
| 7. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Yes, I believe I shall love you (Anatol) |
| 8. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 1: Who are you? (Erika) |
| 9. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: And then? (Baroness) |
| 10. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: No, you are not as good a skater? (Vanessa) |
| 11. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Under the willow tree (Doctor) |
| 12. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Erika, I am so happy (Vanessa) |
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| 13. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Did you hear her? (Erika) |
| 14. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Help, help! Save me from their talk (Anatol) |
| 15. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Outside this house the world has changed (Anatol) |
| 16. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: Hurry now! (Vanessa) |
| 17. | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act I Scene 2: In Morning light let us rejoice (Chorus) |
| Disc 2 | |
| 1 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: The Count and Countess d'Albany (Major-domo) |
| 2 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: I should never have been a doctor (Doctor) |
| 3 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: Here you are! (Vanessa) |
| 4 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: At last I've found you (Anatol) |
| 5 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: Love has a bitter core, Vanessa (Anatol) |
| 6 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act II: Nothing to worry about (Doctor) |
| 7 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: Why did no one warn me? (Vanessa) |
| 8 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: Why must the greatest sorrows come (Vanessa) |
| 9 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: There, look! (Doctor) |
| 10 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: On the path to the lake (Anatol) |
| 11 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: Anatol, tell me the truth! (Vanessa) |
| 12 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 1: Grandmother! (Erika) |
| 13 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III: Intermezzo |
| 14 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: By the time we arrive in Paris (Anatol) |
| 15 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: For every love there is a last farewell (Doctor) |
| 16 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: And you, my friend (Vanessa) |
| 17 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: Erika, before I leave, you must tell me (Vanessa) |
| 18 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: To leave, to break, to find, to keep (Vanessa) |
| 19 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: Goodbye, be happy, Aunt Vanessa (Erika) |
| 20 | Vanessa, Op. 32: Act III Scene 2: No, I must never say that name again (Erika) |
Susan Graham, under exclusive contract to Warner Classics for solo recordings, is featured in the pivotal role of Erika in a new Chandos recording of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa (complete), conducted by Leonard Slatkin, with the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. This remarkable American opera, for which Barber won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Music, includes a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958. (Vanessa is often rumored to be in line for a new production at the Met.) Conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos, Barber’s Vanessa marked the start of the international careers of Eleanor Steber, Rosalind Elias and Nicolai Gedda.
