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Also during Mansouri's tenure, San Francisco
Opera made its first official commercial recording for Sony Classical:
live performances of the 1994 production of Massenet's Hérodiade
with Dolora Zajick, Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo, conducted
by Valery Gergiev. The recording was released in December of 1995.
The Company's first studio recording-Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice
with Jennifer Larmore, Dawn Upshaw and Alison Hagley, conducted
by Donald Runnicles-was made for Teldec in May of 1995 and released
in 1996. In January of 1997, Orphée was nominated for a
Grammy Award, making San Francisco Opera the only American opera
company to be so honored that year. Harvey Milk, also conducted
by Runnicles, was released by Teldec in March of 1998. The audio
recording of A Streetcar Named Desire was released in December
of 1998 and the recording of Dead Man Walking is slated
for release in September of 2001.
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