Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, W. 389, 1. Aria (Cantilena) [ Live at Borchardt, Berlin / 2018 ] "I feel deep down that we can make a change in the right direction and that the right direction is about uniting people." – Nadine Sierra Nadine Sierra, 2018 winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Beverly Sills Artist Award, has made her first album for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Gold, having signed an exclusive contract with the labels last year. There’s a Place for Us was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano. The album presents the soprano’s stunning vocal abilities in an eclectic choice of American classical music – as well as works by Bernstein, the repertoire ranges from Stephen Foster and Douglas Moore to Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos, and on again to Ricky Ian Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov and Christopher Theofanidis, with texts in Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.