New EVITA West End recording…

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 1:45pm

This was released digitally today. It sounds OK, but it’s not complete; just more of a highlights album.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 1:49pm

Full album coming next year, it was announced today. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 1:58pm

I honestly wasn’t impressed with what I heard. It all sounded very sterile and uninspired, like they were singing the songs but without any character in them. There was no grit, anger, or ferocity. 

As much as the 2012 revival was panned, I thoroughly enjoy that the revival focused on creating a more authentic Latin sound. Even Elena Roger, what she lacked in high notes, still gave us a very chilly and calculated Eva that gave the show the grit I’m seeking in a show about the rise of dictatorship 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 2:07pm

What’s included sounds fine to me. Not great just fine. There seems to be debate about whether it was recorded in front of an audience or not. Webber makes it sound like it was. If so whatever processing they did to remove audience noise does seem to suck the life out of it. I’m much more interested to hear the full album, but if by full album they just mean these full 10 tracks being released on CD in 2026 then that will be very disappointing.

[binau]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 2:19pm

I’d say it captures about 85% of the aesthetic of the performances but about 50% of the energy of the show. I don’t often think this but I think you just have to see it live and in context. 

It sounds like a studio recording to me. And far better mixing than the rainbow high track original single. To be honest, after that disaster I had low expectations. I can see myself actually listening to it now. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/24/25 at 2:27pm

quizking101 said: "I honestly wasn’t impressed with what I heard. It all sounded very sterile and uninspired, like they were singing the songs but without any character in them. There was no grit, anger, or ferocity.

As much as the 2012 revival was panned, I thoroughly enjoy that the revival focused on creating a more authentic Latin sound. Even Elena Roger, what she lacked in high notes, still gave us a very chilly and calculated Eva that gave the show the grit I’m seeking in a show about the rise of dictatorship"

 

I absolutely LOVED Elena Roger's Eva.

[C4b2a3b]

Posted: 10/25/25 at 1:54am

binau said: "I’d say it captures about 85% of the aesthetic of the performances but about 50% of the energy of the show. I don’t often think this but I think you just have to see it live and in context.

It sounds like a studio recording to me. And far better mixing than the rainbow high track original single. To be honest, after that disaster I had low expectations. I can see myself actually listening to it now."

I'm with you!! I've never seen an audience so incredibly enthusiastic (maybe Hello Dolly with Midler or OBC Hamilton are the closest things). 

That initial rainbow high single was so thin-sounding. There was no electric guitar at the end either. I was very worried these 10 tracks were going to be the same way.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but these 10 tracks sound good! Diego and Rachel's vocals are on point. The orchestral moments in Oh What a Circus and I'd be Surprisingly Good for You are beautiful.

I'm yearning to hear the rest of cast recording, particularly the Eva and Magaldi/Eva Beware of the City parts. 2026 is a big time frame to wait.

Someone on IG said cast members posted pictures of the cast recording the songs at the Palldium and not in front of an audience, but no links were provided. I find it hard to believe this was live in the same way that Sunset or Broadway's Six were recorded live. This Evita sounds a little too perfect. But I also saw ALW's IG saying this was live, and what else does live mean, except in front of an audience.... 

 

[binau]

Posted: 10/25/25 at 6:33am

RE: Elena Roger, I was listening to some clips of her in "Passion" and I realise that she is an incredibly singing actress. 

People dismissed her as 'not having the voice' and of course it's a little shrill at points but I realise that the entire concept of her in the role (and wider production) likely seemed to be realism. I.e. get a real Argentian with a real accent, who can act, who sings in a particularly expressive non-Broadway style that kind of sounds like it would come from the culture. 

I don't think anyone has brought more authentic emotion to "You Must Love Me" or "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". I think the vision was that we are meant to literally be seeing and feeling Eva Peron. 

That is a very different concept to Rachel Z in Jamie Lloyd's Evita. Like Nicole in Sunset she isn't literally Eva Peron because the concept is so far outside reality that I can understand why people feel it doesn't work or feel the recording feels a little cold. But it works in the context of the production and abstract reality.