Susan Chilcott, the soprano, balanced her international opera career with a quiet home life in the Somerset countryside, which she loved and used as a refuge to learn scores and raise her son.
Performer Biography
Susan Chilcott, the soprano, identified strongly with tragic operatic heroines like Kát'a Kabanová, Jenůfa, Desdemona, and Ellen Orford, often reliving her own difficult experiences to portray them.
Performer Biography
Susan Chilcott, the soprano on this album, was known for her complex talent, able to reach out to her audience with emotion and draw them in with subtlety.
Recording & Production
This album is a compilation of recordings, with tracks 1-25 recorded in London in September 2002 and tracks 26-31 recorded live in Brussels in October 2001.
Performer Biography
Susan Chilcott, the soprano, was never satisfied with her voice and worked extremely hard to perfect her art, rejecting the idea that her talent was a "god-given gift."
Interpretation
The soprano Susan Chilcott loved singing the Aaron Copland songs on this album, finding his Emily Dickinson settings allowed her to be melancholy, witty, spiritual, and subversive, while his Old American Songs offered simpler pleasures.
Recording & Production
Some of the live recordings on this album were made in Brussels in June 2003, during Susan Chilcott's last performance before her death three months later.
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