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Beverly Wolff

voc, 1928-2005 US, Atlanta
Composer of Soundtrack

Beverly Wolff (November 6, 1928 – August 14, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert works in many languages and from a variety of musical periods. She was a champion of new works, notably premiering compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Ned Rorem among other American composers. She also performed in a number of rarely heard baroque operas by George Frideric Handel with the New York City Opera (NYCO), the Handel Society of New York, and at the Kennedy Center Handel Festivals.

     
Genres
  • Soundtrack
  • Pop
  • Classical
  • Jazz
Popular Tracks   
Dove, dove, inumani - Son nata a lagrimar from Julius Ceasar on The Handel Collection by George Frideric Handel & Eugene Ormandy, Richard Kapp, The Philadelphia Orchestra
Roberto Devereux: "L'amor suo mi fe beata" on Selección Clásicos - Gluck, Verdi, Wagner by Various Artists, Paolo Carignani, Ivan Anguélov, Gustav Jun, Christian Thielemann, Bertrand de Billy, Sir Charles Mackerras, Orchester der Tiroler Festpiele, Philarmonia Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Roberto Devereux - original version / Act 3: Che m'apporti? (Elisabetta, Cecil, Sara, Nottingham, Coro) on Beverly Sills - The Great Recordings by Beverly Sills
Roberto Devereux - original version / Act 1: Nunzio son del Parlamento (Cecil, Sara, Elisabetta, Paggio, Raleigh, Coro) on Beverly Sills and Friends by Beverly Sills
From an Unknown Past: No. 1, The Lover in Winter, Plaineth for the Spring on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet
From an Unknown Past: No. 6, Tears on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet
Poems of Love and the Rain: No. 13, The Apparition on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet
From an Unknown Past: No. 2, Hey Nonny No! on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet
Poems of Love and the Rain: No. 2, Stop All the Clocks on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet
From an Unknown Past: No. 7, Crabbed Age and Youth on Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past by Ned Rorem, Beverly Wolff & Modern Madrigal Quartet

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Band Members
Discography
Title Artist Year Type
Great Scenes From Handel's RinaldoGeorg Friedrich Händel, Beverly Wolff, Arleen Auger, Rita Shane, Raymond Michalski, Stephen Simon, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Martin Isepp1973Album
La Pietra Di ParagoneGioacchino Rossini / Beverly Wolff / José Carreras / Elaine Bonazzi / Annabelle Elgar / John Reardon / Andrew Foldi / Raymond Murcell Orchestre Direct Newell Jenkins1973Album
Some Trees and other songs / Fragments From SapphoNed Rorem / David Ward-Steinman - Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm1969Album
Julius CaesarGeorg Friedrich Händel, Norman Treigle, Beverly Sills, Maureen Forrester, Beverly Wolff, Spiro Malas, Dominic Cossa, Michael Devlin, William Beck, New York City Opera Chorus And New York City Opera Orchestra, Julius Rudel1967Album
Trouble In Tahiti (An Opera In Seven Scenes)Leonard Bernstein / Beverly Wolff, David Atkinson, Miriam Workman, Robert Bollinger, Earl Rogers, Arthur Winograd, MGM Studio Orchestra1958Album
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