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Fleming's New "Knoxville, Summer of 1915" Doesn't displace Upshaw, IMHO

Posted by jdaniel@jps.net on January 7, 2017 at 11:35:51:

I've heard Fleming live, (Rusalka, final performance before the SF Opera closed for remodeling), and her voice is as creamy and beautiful as they come, but for Barber's Knoxville, I still prefer Dawn Upshaw's more pain-speakin', down-home country girl approach to the piece.

I realize that Barber wrote with Steber in mind and that she took a relatively "big", operatic approach to the piece, but considering the text, it's just hard for me to imagine Aida prattling on about garden hoses, or Brunhilde speaking of nothing all.

Recording is OK, strings and voice get a little hard at points.