| Dream with Me | ||||
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| Studio album by Jackie Evancho | ||||
| Released | June 3, 2011 (see Release history) |
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| Genre | Classical | |||
| Length | 54:56 Standard edition 70:00 Deluxe edition |
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| Label | Columbia/143/Syco/Sony Classical | |||
| Jackie Evancho chronology | ||||
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Dream with Me, Jackie Evancho's second full-length album (her first on a major label), was released on June 3, 2011 on digital download format and on June 14, 2011 in the standard CD format.[1] It was produced by 16-time Grammy award winner David Foster and recorded while the singer was still ten years old[2][3] and features duets with Barbra Streisand and Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle.[4] The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart,[5] reached #1 on the Billboard's US Classical Chart,[6] and was certified gold by the RIAA.[7] The singer promoted the album on talk shows, in a PBS special and through a national concert tour with symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Evancho promoted the album on numerous U.S. talk shows. A deluxe edition of Dream With Me was announced on Evancho's official site on May 26, 2011 and is available at the Target site. It features four exclusive bonus tracks: "Someday", "Mi Mancherai", "The Impossible Dream" and "A Time For Us".[8][9]
Evancho performed all of the songs from Dream with Me for her solo concert debut in a televised special, which first aired June 14, 2011 on PBS stations.[10][11] The broadcast, which was frequently rebroadcast during 2011, was part of the PBS Great Performances series, co-produced by SYCO/Columbia. The concert was taped in April 2011 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and was co-hosted by David Foster, who played the piano in the orchestra for many of the selections, while Conrad Tao played piano and violin in some selections.[12] The performances are available as a CD/DVD, Dream With Me In Concert.[11] Allmusic noted: "the concert version ... sounds nearly identical (outside of the waves of applause) to the studio album ... but the accompanying DVD, which features the heavily choreographed performance, as well as an extensive photo gallery and interviews with both Evancho and Foster, should provide enough eye and ear candy to appease fans of the gifted young vocalist until a proper follow-up appears.[13]
In July 2011, the singer began the her first official tour across the United States, to promote the album.[14] It consists of a series of often sell-out performances with symphony orchestras, beginning with the Sun Valley Orchestra on July 31,[15] followed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on August 5,[16] the Ravinia Festival Orchestra on August 7, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra on August 26,[17] the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on August 31[12] and her hometown Pittsburgh Opera on October 16. Conductor Antony Walker took the opportunity to introduce her fans (many of whom were newcomers to opera) to the Pittsburgh Opera's chorus and soloists, who performed several numbers from Verdi, Bizet and Puccini along with Evancho's repertoire.[18] Evancho made her New York City concert debut at Avery Fisher Hall with songs from the album on November 7, 2011.[12][19] Her last concert of the year was in Las Vegas with David Foster.[20]
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [21] |
Allmusic gave the album 3-1/2 stars out of a possible five, commenting: "Dream with Me hits all of the right notes, though there are few surprises or big moments to be found ... resulting in a solid "official" debut from a rising star at the dawn of her career."[21]
In the US, the album debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 200 chart[5] selling 161,000 copies. The only album ahead of it was Bad Meets Evil's EP Hell: The Sequel.[22] Dream With Me debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, spent 17 weeks in the #1 position on Billboard's US Classical Albums chart,[6] and was certified gold by the RIAA.[7] The album has remained on the Billboard 200 and Classical Albums chart for over 25 consecutive weeks. In November 2011, after the release of Evancho's new album, Heavenly Christmas, sales of Dream With Me increased, and the album moved up from #71 to #55 on the Billboard 200, while briefly regaining the #3 position on the Classical Albums chart.[23]
In its 2011 year-end charts, Billboard ranked Dream With Me as the #2 best selling Classical Album for the year[24] and as the #45 album of 2011 in the U.S.[25]
The DVD, Dream With Me: In Concert, topped the "Top Music Videos" chart in two of its first four weeks,[26] and Billboard ranked it the #21 music video DVD of the year.[27]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "When You Wish Upon a Star" | Leigh Harline, Ned Washington | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Nella Fantasia" | Ennio Morricone, Chiara Ferrau | 4:18 |
| 3. | "A Mother's Prayer (with Susan Boyle)" | David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager | 4:28 |
| 4. | "Nessun Dorma" | Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni | 3:13 |
| 5. | "Angel" | Sarah McLachlan | 5:22 |
| 6. | "O mio babbino caro" | Giacomo Puccini, Christopher Todd Landor | 2:20 |
| 7. | "Somewhere (featuring Barbra Streisand)" | Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim | 3:51 |
| 8. | "All I Ask of You" | Charles Hart, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Richard Stilgoe | 3:55 |
| 9. | "Ombra mai fu" | George Frideric Handel[28] | 3:34 |
| 10. | "Lovers" | Shigeru Umebayashi | 5:01 |
| 11. | "Imaginer" | Walter Afanasieff, Lara Fabian | 4:56 |
| 12. | "The Lord's Prayer" | Albert Hay Malotte | 3:40 |
| 13. | "To Believe" | Matthew Evancho | 4:28 |
| 14. | "Dream With Me" | David Foster, Linda Thompson, Jackie Evancho | 2:09 |
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Total length:
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54:56 | ||
| Target Deluxe Edition[29] | |||||||||
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| 15. | "Someday" | 3:56 | |||||||
| 16. | "Mi Mancherai (Il Postino)" | 4:04 | |||||||
| 17. | "The Impossible Dream" | 3:50 | |||||||
| 18. | "A Time For Us" | 3:14 | |||||||
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Total length:
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70:00 | ||||||||
Notes
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Edition(s) |
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| Worldwide | June 3, 2011 | Digital download | Sony Music Entertainment | Standard |
| June 14, 2011 | CD | Columbia Records | Standard and deluxe |
Recording locations and studios included:[31]
| Chart (2011)[32] | Peak position |
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| Canadian Albums Chart | 5 |
| Irish Albums Chart (IRMA) | 15 |
| Top 100 Mexico | 26 |
| New Zealand Albums Chart (RIANZ) | 8 |
| UK Albums Chart (Official Charts Company) | 4 |
| US Billboard 200 | 2 |
| US Billboard Top Classical Albums | 1 |
| US Billboard Top Digital Albums | 9 |
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