Jennifer Larmore: In Performance! / Jaffe/Braunstein Films DVD Video 2001

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Her voice has moved millions of opera fans across the globe, and with this release of a January 2001 concert captured live at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center in New York, famed mezza-soprano Jennifer Larmore shows once and for all why she's one of the best-loved opera performers to grace the stage. Compositions performed in this release include Handel's "Hercules: Where Shall I Fly?" and "Semele: Hence, Iris, hence away", Debussy's "Les Cloches", "Romance", and "Beau Soir", and thirteen other classic opera favorites.
 --Jason Buchanan, Rovi 

With her creamy, rich soprano and lustrous stage presence, Jennifer Larmore has been highly sought after as both opera singer and recitalist, and this 2001 concert showcases her wide appeal. In an eclectic array of songs spanning four centuries of composing, Larmore (ably supported by her pianist, Antoine Palloc) demonstrates her operatic abilities by performing arias of Handel, Rossini, and Bizet, then jumps headlong into the 20th-century song repertoire, tackling Debussy, Kurt Weill, Samuel Barber, and current American wunderkind Jake Heggie. The encores include the delightful Latin stylings of Ary Barroso and Fernando Obradors, more Heggie, and finally the rarely heard Roger Quilter and "Art Is Calling for Me" from the operetta The Enchantress by Victor Herbert. Even Larmore's puppy (the inspiration for the Heggie encore) makes a brief appearance near the end, underlining the mutual admiration by both singer and her audience. 
--Kevin Filipski

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