"Do not sing, my beauty, to me......"
Performed in Jackson, Miss., December 8, 1956
Astrid Varnay in Strauss' "Elektra"
With colleagues Regina Resnik and William Steinberg
and The New York Philharmonic Orchestra from October of 1964,
here is a part of the dramatic confrontation between
Elektra and Klytamnästra where
their bitter conflict is first heard.
Anna Russell from "The Psychiatrist"
"Muriel Perkins' Aria"
Miss Russell's interpretation of another aria by a famous
and tormented woman, Magda Sorel.
The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay