Beverly Sills - Recordings and Broadcasts

Recordings and Broadcasts

During her operatic career, Sills recorded eighteen full-length operas:

• The Ballad of Baby Doe (Bible, Cassel; Buckley, 1959)
• Giulio Cesare (Wolff, Forrester, Treigle; Rudel, 1967)
• Roberto Devereux (Wolff, Ilosfalvy, Glossop; Mackerras, 1969)
• Lucia di Lammermoor (Bergonzi, Cappuccilli, Díaz; Schippers, 1970)
• Manon (Gedda, Souzay, Bacquier; Rudel, 1970)
• La traviata (Gedda, Panerai; Ceccato, 1971)
• Maria Stuarda (Farrell, Burrows, L.Quilico; Ceccato, 1971)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (Marsee, Burrows, Treigle; Rudel, 1972)
• Anna Bolena (Verrett, Burrows, Plishka; Rudel, 1972)
• I puritani (Gedda, L.Quilico, Plishka; Rudel, 1973)
• Norma (Verrett, di Giuseppe, Plishka; Levine, 1973)
• The Siege of Corinth (Verrett, Theyard, Díaz; Schippers, 1974)
• Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barbieri, Gedda, Milnes, Raimondi; Levine, 1974–75)
• I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Baker, Gedda, Herincx, Lloyd; G.Patanè, 1975)
• Thaïs (Gedda, Milnes; Maazel, 1976)
• Louise (Gedda, van Dam; Rudel, 1977)
• Don Pasquale (Kraus, Titus, Gramm; Caldwell, 1978)
• Rigoletto (M.Dunn, Kraus, Milnes, Ramey; Rudel, 1978)

Sills also recorded nine solo recital albums of arias and songs, and was soprano soloist on a 1967 recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 2.

She starred in eight opera productions televised on PBS and several more on other public TV systems. She participated in such TV specials as A Look-in at the Met with Danny Kaye in 1975, Sills and Burnett at the Met, with Carol Burnett in 1976, and Profile in Music, which won an Emmy Award for its showing in the US in 1975, although it had been recorded in England in 1971.

Some of those televised performances have been commercially distributed on videotape and DVD:

• Ariadne auf Naxos (Watson, Nagy; Leinsdorf, 1969)
• La fille du régiment (Costa-Greenspon, McDonald, Malas; Wendelken-Wilson, Mansouri, 1974)
• Roberto Devereux (Marsee, Alexander, Fredricks; Rudel, Capobianco, 1975)
• La traviata (H.Price, Fredricks; Rudel, Capobianco, 1976)
• Il barbiere di Siviglia (H.Price, Titus, Gramm, Ramey; Caldwell, Caldwell, 1976)
• Manon (H.Price, Fredricks, Ramey; Rudel, Capobianco, 1977)

Others not available commercially include:

• The Magic Flute (Pracht, Shirley, Reardon; NN, NN, 1966)
• Le coq d'or (Costa-Greenspon, di Giuseppe, Treigle; Rudel, Capobianco, 1971)
• Die lustige Witwe (H.Price, Titus; Alcántara, Capobianco, 1977)
• Il Turco in Italia (Marsee, H.Price, Titus, Gramm; Rudel, Capobianco, 1978)
• Don Pasquale (Kraus, Hagegård, Bacquier; Rescigno, Dexter, 1979)

After her retirement from singing in 1980 up through 2006, Sills was the host for many of the PBS Live from Lincoln Center telecasts.