Various Composers - Opera Album 2011

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CD1:

1. Bizet - Carmen: "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" (Toreador's Song) - Bryn Terfel
2. Puccini - La Bohème: "Quando me'n vò" (Musette's Waltz) - Anna Netrebko
3. Puccini - Tosca: "E lucevan le stelle" - Andrea Bocelli
4. Handel - Rinaldo, HWV 7a: "Lascia ch'io pianga" - Cecilia Bartoli
5. Leoncavallo - Pagliacci: "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba" - Jonas Kaufmann
6. Catalani - La Wally: "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" - Angela Gheorghiu
7. Verdi - Il Trovatore: "Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Anvil Chorus)
8. Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann: "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" - Joan Sutherland & Huguette Tourangeau
9. Verdi - Rigoletto: "La donna è mobile" - Carlo Bergonzi
10. Bizet - Carmen: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) - Tatiana Troyanos
11. Puccini - Madama Butterfly: "Coro a bocca chiusa" (Humming Chorus)
12. Handel - Xerxes, HWV 40: "Ombra mai fù" (Handel's Largo) - Andreas Scholl
13. Bizet - Les pêcheurs de perles: "Au fond du temple saint" (The Pearl Fishers' Duet) - Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov
14. Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia: "Una voce poco fa" - Teresa Berganza
15. Verdi - La traviata: "Libiamo ne'lieti calici (Brindisi) - Ileana Cotrubas & Plácido Domingo
16. Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila: "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" - Marilyn Horne
17. Dvořák - Rusalka, Op. 114: "Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém" - Pilar Lorengar
18. Verdi - Il Trovatore: "Di quella pira" - José Carreras
19. Verdi - La traviata: "Follie! Delirio vano è questo!" - "Sempre libera" - Kiri Te Kanawa & Alfredo Kraus
20. Puccini - Turandot: "Nessun dorma!" - Luciano Pavarotti

CD2:

1. Gounod - Roméo et Juliette: "Ah, je veux vivre dans ce reve" - Renée Fleming
2. Bizet - Carmen: "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" (Flower Song) - Plácido Domingo
3. Puccini - Tosca: "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" - Kiri Te Kanawa
4. Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia: "Largo al factotum" - Leo Nucci
5. Puccini - La Bohème: "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì" - Angela Gheorghiu
6. Verdi - Rigoletto: "Questa o quella" - Rolando Villazón
7. Gounod - Faust: "Déposons les armes" (Soldiers' Chorus)
8. Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore: "Una furtiva lagrima" - Juan Diego Flórez
9. Bizet - Carmen: "Les tringles des sistres tintaient" - Edwige Parat, Claire Delgado-Boge & Magdalena Kozená
10. Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" - Hermann Prey
11. Puccini - Turandot: "Signore, ascolta" - Montserrat Caballé
12. Verdi - Nabucco: "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
13. Delibes - Lakmé: "Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais" (Flower Duet) - Joan Sutherland & Jane Berbié
14. Verdi - Aida: "Celeste Aida" - Luciano Pavarotti
15. Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: "Che farò senza Euridice?" - Andreas Scholl
16. Mozart - Don Giovanni, K. 527: "Là ci darem la mano" - Mirella Freni & Ingvar Wixell
17. Puccini - La Rondine: "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (Doretta's Dream Song) - Renata Tebaldi
18. Offenbach - La belle Hélène: "Au mont Ida" - "Le jugement de Paris" - Joseph Calleja
19. Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (Queen of the Night's Aria) - Patricia Petibon
20. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) - Birgit Nilsson

Date: 2011
Label: Decca
http://www.deccaclassics.com/us/cat/4782947

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Review

Decca's two-disc set Opera Album 2011 collects performances from the late 20th and early 21st centuries by some of the leading singers of their time. There are hardly any singers represented who aren't superstars, so the quality of the performances is often spectacular. In addition to those pictured on the cover, the artists include classic performers Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Plácido Domingo, and Hermann Prey; today’s stars, such as Angela Gheorghiu, Rolando Villazón, and Jonas Kaufmann; and more.

The selections are mostly arias, but several ensembles and choruses are included. The repertoire is weighted very heavily to 19th century Italian opera; two arias each by Handel and Mozart are included, and there are only two in German, but Bizet is well-represented, with five tracks. The accompanying orchestras and conductors are top-notch, and all the recordings come from the stereo or digital eras, so the sound is almost always good. The program notes cite the original recordings from which the selections were taken, making it easy for interested listeners to hear more of particular opera or singer. The album makes a good investment for anyone looking for a collection of operatic selections from the standard repertoire, beautifully performed and recorded.

-- Stephen Eddins, AllMusic

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