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	Vanessa by Samuel Barber
		In a Chandos recording of Vanessa released in the United States on November 9, 2004, Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers, and a cast including Christine Brewer, Susan Graham, and William Burden.
		Although the premise of the opera itself is somewhat implausible, she was always a believable character.
		That Naxos recording of Vanessa with Ellen Chickering was released at amazon.co.uk on September 29, 2003, and at amazon.com on November 18, 2003.
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		Vanessa is an opera (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) in four acts by Samuel Barber (United States composer (1910-1981)) with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti (United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911)).
		It was composed in 1956–1957, and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera (additional info and facts about Metropolitan Opera) in New York on January 15, 1958.
		Vanessa was a critical and popular success and Barber won a Pulitzer Prize (additional info and facts about Pulitzer Prize) for it.
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	Vanessa (opera) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Vanessa is an opera in three acts (originally four acts) by Samuel Barber with a English libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, based of the story Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen.
		Vanessa, Erika, and the baroness await Anatol's arrival.
		Vanessa tells her daughter that she also loves Anatol, despite Erika's warning that he is not her former lover.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Vanessa_%28opera%29 (419 words)

	The Prizewinning Opera Time Forgot - New York Times
		Jurinac, a luminous star of the Vienna State Opera 50 years ago, was to have created the title role at the Metropolitan Opera on Jan. 15, 1958, but she abruptly withdrew before the premiere, presumably because of illness.
		The opera seemed as colorful and melodramatic as anything in the Met repertory, the tale of a beautiful woman named Vanessa who, long ago discarded by her lover, shuts herself up in a gloomy mansion “in a northern country” to await his return.
		The role of Erika, Vanessa’s young niece who is cruelly seduced by her aunt’s new lover, is especially effective; the young Rosalind Elias jump-started her career with it in 1958, and her appearance as the enigmatic old baroness in the new City Opera production is a welcome connection with the past.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/11/04/arts/music/04davi.html?ei=5088&en=fd4e483daf3e5d67&ex=1351832400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1619 words)

	Vanessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanessa — Jonathan Swift invented the name and used it in an autobiographical poem.
		Vanessa (opera) — an opera by Samuel Barber.
		Vanessa Paradis — a French singer and longtime companion of Johnny Depp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanessa (154 words)

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		A full house at the old Metropolitan Opera House, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House for a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann, November 28, 1937.
		Other operas by Smetana include two stirring patriotic works: the fast-moving rescue opera Dalibor (1868), and the epic tableaux of LibuÅ¡e (1881), portraying the unification of the Czech people under a wise female leader.
		The Boston Academy of Music gave Samuel Barber's opera Vanessa, first performed in 1958, a very satisfying performace in which all members of the cast were good.
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		Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucy Schaufer and Rosalind Elias in Vanessa.
		Vanessa is a difficult, if accessible piece of 20th century music, rife with ironies both emotional and historic.
		Vanessa has covered the mirrors and awaits the return of Anatol, the married man she once loved.
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	Opera World, Enhancing the Enjoyment of Opera (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vanessa is not only a tale of dark passion and somber irony, but a vivid exploration into the anguished relationships of its characters.
		Vanessa is the story of three women of different generations whose lives are entwined through the visit of a devious stranger.
		Vanessa, as renowned director Michael Kahn attests, is a work "with sweeping melodies and soaring passions close in spirit and style to the works of Puccini or Strauss." Indeed, with Vanessa, Samuel Barber has given his country--and the operatic world--a very special legacy.
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	OCEAN PARK GAZETTE - Santa Monica News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When her visitor arrives, Vanessa keeps her back to him saying she will not look at him until he tells her his passion is unchanged.
		As Vanessa and Anatol announce their engagement, Erika realizes she is carrying Anatol's child and, as the crowds celebrate Vanessa's forthcoming wedding, Erika runs out into the snow.
		Vanessa's world of turbulent emotion is evoked in arias that are chaotic and dissonant, while the clear-sighted Erika's are simple, fragile and crystalline.
	www.oceanparkgazette.org /2004/04nov/rev_vanessa_nov30.htm (1002 words)

	Journal Gazette/Times-Courier Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vanessa Ziembroski stands in front of the Winchester Opera House, located on the corner of East Lexington Avenue and South Main Street.
		Vanessa says that a restaurant called "Phantom of the Opera Cafe" once was located on the second floor, as was a church.
		Aside from planning the renovation, Vanessa also is doing some preplanning for fund-raisers she wants to hold in the structure.
	www.winchestersun.com /articles/2004/05/21/local_news/features/feature9984.txt (1167 words)

	ShowMag.com
		Vanessa focuses on three generations of rich, psychologically wounded women living a hermit-like existence in a frigid mansion surrounded by perpetual snow.
		Vanessa has hidden herself away awaiting the return of Anatol, the lover who deserted her twenty years earlier.
		Vanessa offers a glamorous role for a soprano of a certain age, and Los Angeles Opera was lucky to land Kiri Te Kanawa in her company debut.
	www.showmag.com /opera/opera060.html (502 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		Kiri Te Kanawa as Vanessa, Lucy Schaufer as Erika and Rosalind Elias as the Baroness.
		And the LA Vanessa marks the LA Opera debut, believe it or not, of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, a widely beloved soprano whom one can safely call "legendary" if only because she sang at a famous royal wedding televised to a jillion people on planet earth.
		In fact, we lose sympathy for Vanessa the moment we realize the extent of her selfishness; if she were to receive visitors, perhaps Erika could find the right man and have the life Vanessa never could.
	www.sandiegomag.com /opera/vanessa.shtml (1343 words)

	TEATRO MASSIMO \| Vanessa
		Vanessa, with her back turned to him, tells him that, unless he still loves her, she will not let him look on her face and will ask him to leave at once.
		Vanessa offers a gushing confession to Erika: She has fallen in love with young Anatol and he, it seems, with her.
		Vanessa is upset her mother and Erika have refused to join the party.
	www.teatromassimo.it /stagione/archivio/stagione0506/op06Vanessa_en.html (754 words)

	vanessawest.com.au :: Vanessa West
		Vanessa is excited about 2008 and her involvement with a wonderful range of both corporate and theatrical performances.
		Vanessa West was born in Melbourne, and earned her Graduate Diploma in Opera from the Victorian College of the Arts.
		In 2003 Vanessa debuted internationally, performing the roles of Liú in Turandot and Flora in La Traviata in Florence with the L'estate Fiesolana Opera Festival.
	www.vanessawest.com.au (361 words)

	Vanessa
		Vanessa’s long absence from Curtis is even more surprising because its libretto is by another Curtis alum, Gian Carlo Menotti, who was Barber’s longtime companion.
		Eliasen chose to present Vanessa in concert form "because most of its action takes place off stage, and the orchestral parts are so gorgeous." It is a psychological drama of obsession, about a woman who has been mourning for 20 years since being abandoned by her lover, Anatol.
		Her country manor is thrown into disorder by the unexpected arrival of Anatol’s son, an opportunist with all the charms and looks of his father, who seduces both Vanessa and her young niece, Erika.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/042601/ae.picka.shtml (263 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		She, for the larger part of the opera, cannot even bring herself to speak to anyone.
		The very second this man walks in the front door, without even turning to look at him, Vanessa sings one of the opera's most important numbers, "Do not utter a word, Anatol, do not move; you may not wish to stay" (a tune that Barber brilliantly varies through much of his symphonic fabric).
		Audience defections were noted, but as one knowledge seat companion remarked, "It's their loss." Ian Campbell takes a risk every time he wants to do something out of the ordinary, and whatever its faults, this is an American classic that demands to be seen.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/vanessasd.shtml (1754 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Vibrant 'Vanessa' has finesse
		The first of four Civic Theatre performances of the 1958 opera had intensity to spare, and much more going for it: a capable cast and chorus, a wintry backdrop with Michael Yeargan's sets (imposing interiors and towering trees); Martin Pakledinaz's evocative costumes; and a fearless orchestra up to the challenge of the difficult score.
		His courting of both Vanessa and Erika created a most unusual romantic triangle, and the ending was decidedly ambivalent, with touches of both hope and unhappiness.
		Fit and fully recovered from last year's back surgery (prompted by an accident during a performance in Barcelona), she gave no hint of the rods and screws that are now part of her body.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050418-9999-1c18opera.html (1115 words)

	WFIU:
		The IU Opera Theatre continues its season of twentieth century works with Alban Berg’s powerful dramatic story of human suffering, "Wozzeck." The title character is a poor, stupid, crazed soldier who seems like a rat in the race for survival.
		Following intermission at the IU Opera Theatre it was time for comedy with Puccini’s "Gianni Schicchi." "...Schicchi" was sung in English though there were still supertitles for help in some of the denser scenes.
		The IU Opera Theatre’s solid production of one of the most popular twentieth century operas is playing to a small house and one that gets smaller between the first and second acts.
	www.indiana.edu /~wfiu/walker_oldrev.htm (15267 words)

	Dicapo Opera Theatre
		That Samuel Barber's opera "Vanessa" has slipped from the active repertory is surprising.
		That summer "Vanessa" became the first American opera to be performed at the Salzburg Festival.
		Set in an unnamed northern country in around 1905, the action takes place in the castle of Vanessa, a wealthy middle-aged woman of great beauty who lives in virtual isolation with her severe mother, the Baroness, who refuses to speak with her, and a curiously devoted niece, Erica.
	www.dicapo.com /nytimes21600.html (401 words)

	The Washington Diplomat
		The Washington Opera will be moving to the Daughters of the American Revolution’s (DAR) Constitution Hall for the remainder of its season in the spring with the beginning of renovations at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
		Kanawa has been something of a legend since her spectacular debut at London’s Royal Opera House in 1971 as the countess in “Le Nozze di Figaro,” quickly becoming an international opera star and performing in all the great opera houses across the world, including the Metropolitan, the Paris Opera and the Vienna State Opera.
		Mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer appears as Vanessa’s rival, and American tenor John Villars is Anatol, the object of the two women’s affections.
	www.washdiplomat.com /02-11/b8_02_11.html (589 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - April 6, 2003 Program Notes
		The only thing he had decided upon for certain was that whatever opera he wrote would be for Leontyne Price; Since her debut with the Metropolitan in 1961 she had achieved the reputation of having one of the richest, most sensuous voices in the Metropolitan Opera.
		So enthusiastic was he about directing the opera for the opening of the new house that he went to New York to watch construction of the building so he would be utterly familiar with the 'elaborate stage equipment that was being installed under the direction of Herman Krawitz.
		Four performances of the revised version were given by the American Opera Center at the juilliard School in February 1975, staged by Menotti and conducted by James Conlon, with Esther Hinds as Cleopatra, a role she sang again in the 1983 Spoleto Festival performances in Italy and Charleston, South Carolina.
	www.americancomposers.org /notes20030406.htm (3199 words)

	Vanessa Ament - Official Web Site
		Vanessa will be giving her Senior recital at Cornish College in the PONCHO Concert Hall on March 9, 2007, at 8pm.
		In addition to this, Vanessa will be performing a few of her own compositions, for piano and voice, which can be described as folk/pop style music.
		Vanessa Ament is a member of The Esoterics, a prestigious a capella choir based in Seattle, Washington and directed by Eric Banks.
	www.vanessaament.com (373 words)

	madison.com \| archives: Voices Save Day In Opera `vanessa'
		Barber's not a composer normally associated with opera, and "Vanessa" is not an opera often performed.
		"Vanessa," with text by Gian Carlo Menotti, focuses on an isolated household in an unidentified northern locale at the turn of the 19th century.
		Vanessa (UW faculty guest artist Julia Faulkner) awaits the arrival of Anatole, her lover of 20 years before, with her niece Erika (Jessica Timman) and her mother, the Baroness (Kathleen Otterson.) The fact that the Baroness refuses to speak to Vanessa is alluded to but never fully explained.
	www.madison.com /archives/read.php?ref=tct:2005:04:16:412482:LIFESTYLE (590 words)

	New England Opera Club
		His second was opera Eurydice composed in 1600 for the wedding of Maria de' Medici and Henri IV of France.
		Opera diva and director, she is now Director of the Opera Institue at Boston University.
		This celebrated soprano of the New York City Opera was the dean of the Boston University opera department.
	www.neoperaclub.org /operaperi.htm (1011 words)

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		Born in the town of Cadegliano in 1911, he came to this country in 1928 to study composition at Curtis and the two began a close relationship that was to continue through the rest of their lives.
		Menotti had written the librettos of most of his own operas, and even though he had a reputation of leaving things until the last minute, Barber felt that the best librettist for this work would be someone who understood the lyric muse from both sides of the fence, as both a poet and a composer.
		The young mezzo Rosalind Elias was cast in the role of Erika and proved Callas to be correct: she nearly walked off with the opera, so convincing was she in her portrayal of Vanessa's niece.
	www.operapaedia.org /Opera.aspx?article=1177&id=4022 (1274 words)

	Vanessa - Music - Review - New York Times
		Introduced in 1958 by the Metropolitan Opera, “Vanessa” received a generally favorable reaction in New York and won Barber the Pulitzer Prize for music.
		At City Opera, thanks to a simple but effective production by the director Michael Kahn; an excellent cast headed by the soprano Lauren Flanigan, who gives a smoldering portrayal of the title role; and crucially, the urgent and sensitive conducting of Anne Manson, in her company debut, “Vanessa” emerges as an authentic American masterpiece.
		For example, Vanessa sings a yearning Act I aria to the man she believes to be her former lover, which ends just at the moment she discovers the truth.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/11/06/arts/music/06vane.html?ex=1352005200&en=7856f6abe020a7ac&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1031 words)

	Today's Opera News -- Metropolitan Opera Schedule -- AllAboutOpera.com
		Opera teems with women who wait: Puccini's Madame Butterfly, for example, who waits in vain for the caddish Lieutenant Pinkerton to return to her.
		Opera Colorado was born in 1983 and, against all odds, enjoyed a relatively happy childhood within the circular peculiarities of Boettcher Hall.
		Opera singer Russell Watson said yesterday that he was "happy to be alive" as he was discharged from hospital on his daughter's birthday following an operation on a brain tumour.
	www.allaboutopera.com /news/2007_11_01_archives.php (8133 words)

	High Style: "Vanessa": Opera Reviews : MW Magazine - weekly Washington DC gay and lesbian entertainment - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though she created the role of Erika in the world premiere of the opera in 1958, she has also made the Baroness her own, imbuing every movement and aspect of this woman with energy and emotional portent. She continues to sing with fine, full tone.
		There’s no question that is a hothouse tale, with three generations of women neuroticized by scandal and isolation who implode on the arrival in their cloistered midst of a mysterious male.
		Yet when the Washington Opera staged the opera in 1995, the tale took on a Chekhovian grandeur, culminating in a stunningly stark desperation. Though this Vanessa reaches a poignant climax in its own right, it cannot achieve the same beautiful complement of Barber's new sounds with old pain.
	www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/opera.php?ak=202 (754 words)

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