Herbert: Naughty Marietta / Blazer, Harrington, Morris, Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, Millennium Chamber Orchestra

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Harbinger Records
Release Date
June 25, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HERBERT, VICTOR
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Millennium Chamber Orchestra, Catholic University Of America A Cappella Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Morris
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 25, 2021
    • UPC
      632433370223
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HCD3702
    • LABEL
      Harbinger Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: James Morris

    2. Act I: Opening Chorus (Vendors, Street Sweepers, Flower Girls)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: James Morris

    3. Act I: Mysterious Melody (Fanchon)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Helen Bickers

      Conductor: James Morris

    4. Act I: We've hunted the wolf in the forest, "Tramp, tramp, tramp" (Dick, Simon, Rangers)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Leslie Harrington, Steve Liebman

      Conductor: James Morris

    5. Act I: Taisez-Vous (Casquette Girls and Men)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: James Morris

    6. Act I: Song From the Fountain (Marietta)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer

      Conductor: James Morris

    7. Act I: Naughty Marietta (Marietta)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer

      Conductor: James Morris

    8. Act I: It Never, Never Can Be Love (Marietta, Dick)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer, Leslie Harrington

      Conductor: James Morris

    9. Act I: If I Were Anybody Else but Me (Simon, Lizette)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Steve Liebman, Dana Dreuger

      Conductor: James Morris

    10. Act I: 'Neath the Southern Moon (Adah)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Elvira Green

      Conductor: James Morris

    11. Act I: Italian Street Song (Marietta, Chorus)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer

      Conductor: James Morris

    12. Act I: Finale (Adah, Marietta, Etienne, Dick, Rudolfo, Lieutenant Governor, Chorus)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Elvira Green, Judith Blazer, Wayne Turnage, Leslie Harrington, Harry Winter, Joseph diGenova

      Conductor: James Morris

    13. Act II: Dance of the Marionettes (Marietta, Rudolf)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer, Harry Winter

      Conductor: James Morris

    14. Act II: You Marry a Marionette (Etienne)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Wayne Turnage

      Conductor: James Morris

    15. Act II: Loves of New Orleans (Quadroons, Spanish Girls, French Girls and Men)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: James Morris

    16. Act II: The Sweet Bye and Bye (Lizette)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Dana Dreuger

      Conductor: James Morris

    17. Act II: Prelude to Live for Today

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: James Morris

    18. Act II: Live for Today (Marietta, Adah, Dick, Etienne, Chorus)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Judith Blazer, Elvira Green, Leslie Harrington, Wayne Turnage

      Conductor: James Morris

    19. Act II: I'm falling in love with someone (Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Steve Liebman

      Conductor: James Morris

    20. Act II: It's Pretty Soft for Simon (Simon)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Steve Liebman

      Conductor: James Morris

    21. Act II: Finale Ultimo (Dick, Marietta, Etienne, Simon, Chorus)

      Composer: Victor Herbert

      Ensemble: Catholic University of America A Cappella Choir, The Millennium Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Leslie Harrington, Judith Blazer, Wayne Turnage, Steve Liebman

      Conductor: James Morris


For the first time on album, the Smithsonian Institution’s 1981 first complete recording of Victor Herbert’s classic musical, Naughty Marietta, is available through Harbinger Records. This is the most complete recorded performance of the original score of a Victor Herbert operetta. It provides the listener with an opportunity to hear this brilliant score as if complete for the first time. The recording began as a concert at the Smithsonian Institution in 1981. The reception was so great, the company went right into the studio and recorded the 2-LP set under the direction of the Division of Performing Arts’ Director, James R. Morris. A young Judy Blazer played Marietta, an early step toward her becoming a Broadway star. Naughty Marietta is Herbert’s best and most popular score and became a key bridge between the English, French and Viennese operettas popular in the late 19th-century and the thoroughly American style of entertainment that dominated our musical stages after 1920. Herbert’s collaborator on the project was Rida Johnson Young, who supplied the libretto and the lyrics. She was the first significant lyricist of the 20th-century American musical theater. Her best work transforms the florid language of European operettas into colloquial speech. She wrote plays, acted, and wrote the standard, “Mother Machree” for the show Barry of Ballymore. She wrote the lyrics for over 500 songs including works by Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml, all giants in the world of musical theater. Naughty Marietta has become a staple of light opera companies throughout the world. After the Broadway engagement the show toured the United States to rave reviews and sold-out houses. Nearly two decades later the show returned to Broadway to great acclaim.