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Soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958) is one of Ireland’s most enduring legends of the operatic stage. Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, she orphaned at the age of eleven yet by the time she was twenty-nine, Margaret Burke Sheridan made a dramatic debut. At four days notice, still in vocal training, she was chosen to replace the indisposed soprano as Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème at Rome’s Costanzi
She performed with all the greats including the tenors Aureliano Pertile and Beniamino Gigli, and conductor Arturo Toscanini and was coached by Puccini himself. UN BEL DI contains fifteen digitally remastered tracks including a live performance from Covent Garden in 1926 and five ballads never brought together on one CD before. This is truly the definitive Margaret Burke Sheridan collection.
Track listing:
1. BALFE I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls 4.37
2. PUCCINI Un bel di 4.37
3. PUCCINI Bimba dagli occhi … Io t'ho germita 8.28
4. PUCCINI Con onor muore 4.28
5. PUCCINI Si. Mi chiamano Mimi 4.46
6. PUCCINI Tu, tu, amore? …O Tentatrice! 8.37
7. GIORDANO Vicino a te…..La nostra morte 6.51
8. VERDI Gia nella notte densa …Ed io vedea 9.14
9. VERDI Ave Maria from Otello 4.40
10. MOORE ARR. BYNG Believe me if all those endearing
young charms 3.15
11. CLARIBEL ARR.BYNG Come back to Erin 2.50
12. WEATHERLY Danny Boy 3.39
13. MOORE ARR. LARCHET O Breathe not his name 2.37
14. COLOHAN ARR.LARCHET Galway Bay 3.41
Bonus Tracks
15. PUCCINI Dorme? … Riposa (live recording) 4.47
16. M.B. SHERIDAN Speaking 1.52
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