A two-disc edition which featured all the tracks from the film, and a single-disc edition contained a selection of song highlights. The soundtrack was released in two different versions. Through the songs, the soundtrack tells the story of Eva Perón's beginnings, her rise to fame, political career and gradually her death.

Rice and Lloyd Webber had employed the classical technique while creating the music, taking the central theme, ' Don't Cry for Me Argentina', and tweaking it to cater to a variety of settings. It took almost four months for the soundtrack to be finished. After an emergency meeting with the principal personnel, it was decided she would record in a separate location. The musical style for Evita differed from Madonna's previous works and she was not comfortable in recording her vocals inside the studio alongside the orchestra. The actors were tense during the recording sessions for Evita, since they were from a non-musical background. Additional performers on the soundtrack include Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail.Īfter securing the title role in Evita, Madonna underwent vocal training in order to enhance her singing abilities. The soundtrack consists of reworked songs from its original 1976 concept album as well as a new song, ' You Must Love Me'. Directed by Alan Parker, the film was based on Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 musical Evita about First Lady of Argentina, Eva Perón, portrayed by Madonna.

Evita is the soundtrack album to the 1996 musical film of the same name, performed mostly by American singer Madonna.

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