Phyllis Curtin - Video and Audio Recordings

Video and Audio Recordings

In 1995, VAI released, on compact discs, the 1962 performance of Susannah, from New Orleans, which co-starred Norman Treigle and Richard Cassilly. VAI and other record companies have released other CDs featuring Curtin.

In 1988, Kultur published a video cassette recording of the 1968 The Bell Telephone Hour program, "Opera: Two to Six". Curtin is seen in staged excerpts from Faust and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Her colleagues in this telecast included Dame Joan Sutherland, Tito Gobbi, Nicolai Gedda, Jerome Hines, Mildred Miller and Charles Anthony. VAI later released several Bell Telephone Hour DVDs featuring Curtin.

And in 2007 VAI released a DVD featuring Curtin in the soprano role (i.e., the Latin text) in Benjamin Britten's harrowing War Requiem. This 1963 performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf at Tanglewood was the work's American premiere.

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