I think having a singing voice is a unique talent. It's kind of like a diamond. You can't manufacture a diamond - if you do it's a fake. But, it does have to be polished and put in its proper setting in order to be appreciated. - Sills interviewed in "Reverberations" by Robert Jacobson
non- commercial videography
These listings are the known recordings that are in public hands. They do not include those found only in TV & radio archives and museums.
Selections from some of these performances can be watched in our Video Room. Many of these performances are available from suppliers of live, non-commercial materials - see the links on the sidebar.
Don Pasquale |
Date : January 11, 1979 Location : Metropolitan Opera Artists : Gabriel Bacquier, Alfredo Kraus, Häkan Hagegärd, Nico Castel Conductor - Nicolo Rescigno |
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The Merry Widow |
Date : October 02, 1977 ( sung in English) Location : San Diego Opera Artists : Alan Titus, Glenys Fowles, Nolan Van Way, Jane Westbrook Conductor - Theo Alcantara |
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Le Coq D'or |
Date : November 09, 1971 ( sung in English) Location : New York City Opera Artists : Norman Treigle, Syble Young, Enrico Di Giuseppe Conductor - Julius Rudel |
Il Turco in Italia |
Date : October 04, 1978 Location : New York City Opera Artists : Donald Gramm, Alan Kays, Alan Titus, Susanne Marsee Conductor - Julius Rudel |
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Sills in Concert with Indianapolis Symphony |
Date : October 14, 1979 Location : Clowes Memorial Hall, Indianapolis, IN Conductor - John Nelson Aria Selections - Click here |
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Sills NYCO Farewell Gala |
Date : October 27, 1980 Location : New York City Opera Artists : Carol Burnett, Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, Renata Scotto, Eileen Farrell, Placido Domingo, Donald Gramm, Dinah Shore, John Alexander, Cynthia Gregory, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Dominic Cossa, Alan Titus, Gianna Rolandi, Richard Fredricks, Kitty Carlisle, James Billings Conductor - Julius Rudel |
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August 1937 (released in June 1938) "Uncle Sol Solves It" - Twentieth Century Fox short film Sills, age eight, appears as a precocious child who performs for Uncle Sol to judge where she should study singing. Sill sings Arditi's "Il bacio." (an excerpt of the Arditi is on the commercial DVD "Beverly Sills: Made in America") |
January, 1971 BBC Profile -interviewee & performer BBC-TV Studios, London Sills sings (in costume) Willow Song, Da tempeste, Vivi ingrato, Je marche, Lucia Mad Scene. Video includes inteview with Bernard Levin |
 September 23, 1971The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - NBC Studios - New York NY Sills sings Herbert's "Italian Street Song" and Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Rose and the Nightingale" |
| March 23, 1973 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - NBC Studios, Burbank CA Sills sings Johann Strauss's "Voices of Spring" and Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" |
| December 7, 1973 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - NBC Studios, Burbank CA Sills sings Bellini's "Son vergin vezzosa" from I Puritani |
| December 5, 1974 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - NBC Studios, Burbank CA Sills sings "Vilia" from Lehàr's The Merry Widow and Ponce's "Estrellita" (program in is blank and white) |
1975 CBS "60 Minutes" Includes footage of Sills singing in rehearsal for "I Puritani" at NYCO and in recital at an unidentified location singing Koechlin's "Si tu le veux." Sills is interviewed by Mike Wallace in her Martha's Vineyard home |
April 10-11, 1975 (matinees) MET Look In Hosted By Danny Kaye - guest Metropolitan Opera Sills sings spoof pastiche with Kaye, including Barbiere, Lakmé, Rigoletto & Traviata Telecast on CBS April 27 1975 (program made up of portions from both performances) Video is in black and white |
March 08-09, 1976 Sills & Burnett at the Met - CBS TV - co-host Metropolitan Opera Sills sings O luce di quest'anima, and Sills & Carol Burnett do a jazz/opera medley Telecast on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1976 (program is a composite of the two performance dates) Video is in color |
| November 16, 1977 (air date; videotaped in early October 1977) Dinah! (Dinah Shore daytime talk show) Los Angeles CA Sills sings Victor Herbert's "Italian Street Song" Video is in color |
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