Italian Opera Choruses

Acanta: 233496

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Italian Opera Choruses

Label:

Acanta

Catalogue No:

233496

Discs:

1

Release date:

28th May 2012

Barcode:

0885150334966

Length:

52 minutes

Medium:

CD (download also available)
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Italian Opera Choruses

Bellini:

Norma viene: le cinge la chioma (from Norma)

Guerra, guerra (from Norma)

Donizetti:

Che interminable andirivieni! 'Servants' Chorus' (from Don Pasquale)

Leoncavallo:

Andiam...Din, Don, suona il vespero (from I Pagliacci)

Mascagni:

Gli aranci olezzano (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Puccini:

Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly)

Perché tarda la luna (from Turandot)

Verdi:

Va, pensiero (from Nabucco)

O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

Or co' dadi, ma fra poco (from Il Trovatore)

Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence & Girls' Choir of the Music School, Fiesole, Maurizio Arena

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Some of the most popular choruses from Italian opera, performed by the Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale in Florence and conductor Maurizio Arena, are presented in this collection. Amongst the pieces featured are works by Verdi, the famous Va’ Pensiero… from Nabucco and the Soldiers’ Chorus from Il Trovatore, and the Humming Chorus from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

Just how great an effect opera choruses have had in the past can be judged on the sole example of Va pensiero, sull’ali dorate (Fly thoughts, on golden wings) from Verdi’s Nabucco. At that time of political unrest this particular chorus soon achieved hit status. Everyone understood the text as a rejection of serfdom and foreign oppression, and the melody of the chorus became so well-known then that it could be heard whistled in the streets of many an Italian city.

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma

playAct I: Norma viene: Le cinge la chioma

playAct II: Guerra, guerra

Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale

playDon Pasquale, Act III: Che interminabile andirivieni

Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco

playNabucco, Act III: Va' pensiero, sull' ali dorate

Giuseppe Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata

playI Lombardi alla prima crociata, Act IV: O Signore, dal tetto natio

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth

playMacbeth, Act IV: Patria oppressa!

Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore

playAct III: Or co' dadi, ma fra poco

playAct II: Vedi, le fosche notturne

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly

playMadama Butterfly, Act II: Coro a bocca chiusa

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot

playTurandot, Act I: Perche tarda la luna?

Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

playPagliacci, Act I: Don, din, don, suona vespero

Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana

playCavalleria rusticana: Gli aranci olezzano

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