Album · 1959
The Ballad of Baby Doe
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene I. Outside the Tabor Opera House, Leadville, 1880
The Ballad of Baby Doe
2
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene 2. Outside the Clarendon Hotel, Later that Evening
The Ballad of Baby Doe
25:07
3
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene 3. The Tabor Apartment, Several Months Later
The Ballad of Baby Doe
10:43
4
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene 4. The Lobby of the Clarendon Hotel, Shortly Thereafter
The Ballad of Baby Doe
13:41
Disc 2
1
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene V. Augusta's Parlor, A Year Laterr
The Ballad of Baby Doe
5:14
2
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act I, Scene VI. A Suite in the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1883
The Ballad of Baby Doe
14:29
3
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act II, Scene I. The Windsor Hotel, Denver, 1893
The Ballad of Baby Doe
16:00
4
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act II, Scene II. The Poker Game, Two Years Later
The Ballad of Baby Doe
7:05
Disc 3
1
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act II, Scene III. The Matchless Mine, Summer 1896
The Ballad of Baby Doe
2
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act II, Scene IV. Augusta's Parlor, November 1896
The Ballad of Baby Doe
20:37
3
The Ballad of Baby Doe: Act II, Scene V. The Stage of the Opera House, April 1899, The Matchless Mine
The Ballad of Baby Doe
19:46
In print
First pressed 1959, still pressed 1999 — 9 pressings across 2 countries.
Credits
Julius Rudel
Art Direction · creative director [general director]
Almut Gernhard
Artwork · cover, illustration
Emerson Buckley
Conductor
Mike Curry (2)
Design
Douglas Moore
Liner Notes
New York City Opera Orchestra
Performing Orchestra
Anthony Balestrieri
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Arthur Newman
Vocal · vocals, performer [cronies and assciates of tabor / a footman at the willard hotel]
Beatrice Krebs
Vocal · vocals, performer [mama mccourt, baby doe's mother]
Beverly Sills
Vocal · vocals, performer [mrs. elizabeth (baby) doe, a miner's wife]
Bill Saxton
Vocal · vocals, performer [mccort family / the mayor leadville], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Chester Ludgin
Vocal · vocals, performer [a saloon bartender / a denver politician]
Dan Marek (2)
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus / washington dandies]
Donald Arthur
Vocal · vocals, performer [mccort family], vocals [new york city opera chorus], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Dorothy White
Vocal · vocals, performer [effie, old friends of augusta], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Edson Hoel
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus / washington dandies]
Frances Bible
Vocal · vocals, performer [augusta, wife of horace tabor]
Frank Ehrhardt
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
George del Monte
Vocal · vocals, performer [cronies and assciates of tabor], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Grant Williams (3)
Vocal · vocals, performer [an old silver miner / father chappelle, priest at the wedding / stage doorman at the tabor grand theatre]
Greta Wolff
Vocal · vocals, performer [kate, dance hall entertianers / mccourt family], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Helen Baisley
Vocal · vocals, performer [mag, dance hall entertianers / mccourt family / silver dollar (grown-up)]
Jack DeLon
Vocal · vocals, performer [cronies and assciates of tabor / chester a. arthur, president of the united states]
Jennie Andrea
Vocal · vocals, performer [mary, old friends of augusta], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
John Dennison
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus / washington dandies]
Joshua Hecht
Vocal · vocals, performer [william jennings bryan, democratic presidential candidate]
Keith Kaldenberg
Vocal · vocals, performer [a clerk at the clarendon hotel]
Lou Rodgers
Vocal · vocals, performer [emily, old friends of augusta], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Lynda Jordan
Vocal · vocals, performer [samantha, a maid], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Lynn Starling
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Lynn Taussig
Vocal · vocals, performer [elizabeth, child of horace and baby doe tabor]
Mara Yavne
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Margaret Rae
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Marshall Stone
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Mary Lesawyer
Vocal · vocals, performer [sarah, old friends of augusta], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
New York City Opera Chorus
Vocal · chorus
Peter Sliker
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus / washington dandies]
Rita Metzger
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Robert Atherton
Vocal · vocals, performer [albert, a bellboy], vocals [new york city opera chorus]
Walter Cassel
Vocal · vocals, performer [horace tabor, mayor of leadville]
William Golden
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
William Golden (2)
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
William Saxon
Vocal · vocals [new york city opera chorus]
John Latouche
Writer