Herrmann Salammbo's Aria - Venera Gimadieva, soprano John Wilson conducts

Bernard Herrmann was one of the finest Hollywood composers and his first film score was written for one of the greatest movies to have come out of America, Orson Welles's 'Citizen Kane' (1941). In the film, millionaire publishing tycoon Kane meets and marrries a young girl who is taking singing lessons in the hope of being an opera star, even though she is quite hopeless as a singer. Kane builds her an opera house and it is this aria that she attempts to sing. Herrmann wrote it in the 'grand style' and, e