Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (highlights)


ACT I

1 Mab, la reine des mensonges (Mercutio) 2.42

2 Non! non! je ne veux pas t’écouter plus longtemps… 3.53

Ah! Je veux vivre dans le rêve (Juliet)

3 De grâce, demeurez…Ange adorable (Romeo/Juliet) 4.08

ACT II

4 L’amour! l’amour!…Ah, lève-toi, soleil! (Romeo) 3.59

5 Ô nuit divine!…Ah! ne fuis pas encore!…Adieu mille fois!…Va! repose en paix! 10.54

(Romeo/Juliet)

ACT III

6 Roméo! tu choisis Juliette pour femme?…Ô pur bonheur! 2.35

(Friar Laurence/Romeo/Juliette/Gertrude)

7 Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Stephano) 3.05

ACT IV

8 Va! je t’ai pardonné…Nuit d’hyménée…Roméo! qu’as-tu donc? (Juliet/Romeo) 13.02

9 Buvez donc ce breuvage…Bientôt une pâleur livide effacera…Hésitez-vous? 4.42

(Friar Laurence)

10 Dieu! quel frisson court dans mes veines?…Amour, ranime mon courage (Juliet) 5.28

ACT V

11 C’est là! Salut! tombeau! sombre et silencieux!… 5.33

Ô ma femme! ô ma bien-aimée! (Romeo)

12 À toi, ma Juliette…Console-toi, pauvre âme (Romeo/Juliet) 9.53

70.20


Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette), José Van Dam (Frère Laurent), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Stéphano), Simon Keenlyside (Mercutio), Alain Fondary (Capulet), Claire Larcher (Gertrude), Guy Fletcher (Benvolio) & Alain Vernhes (The Duke)

Chœur du Capitole de Toulouse & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson

EMI Highlights - 7290362

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Jussi Björling & Hjördis Schymberg: Excerpts from La Boheme & Romeo et Juliette

Jussi Björling & Hjördis Schymberg: Excerpts from La Boheme & Romeo et Juliette

Stockholm (1940) - Sung in Swedish


Gounod:

Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

Jussi Björling (Roméo), Hjördis Schymberg (Juliette)

Puccini:

La Bohème (highlights)

Jussi Björling (Rodolfo), Hjördis Schymberg (Mimi), Karl Richter (Schaunard), Sven Herdenberg (Marcello), Leon Björker (Colline)


Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra , Royal Swedish Orchestra, Nils Grevillius

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The Jussi Björling Series: Radames, Alfredo & Romeo

The Jussi Björling Series: Radames, Alfredo & Romeo


Atterberg:

Nu, broder, andas vara strider (from Fanal)

Gounod:

Faites- lui mes aveux (from Faust)

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

Mascagni:

O Lola, bianca come fior di spino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

sung in Swedish

Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Puccini:

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

sung in Swedish

Verdi:

Aida (excerpts)

La Traviata (excerpts)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Questa o quella (from Rigoletto)


Jussi Björling (tenor)

Royal Swedish Opera

Here is another real treat for the legions of Jussi Björling fans – a further two-disc set taken from the archives of Royal Swedish Opera, giving us many hitherto unreleased recordings of the legendary tenor’s greatest roles. The programme includes both individual arias and scenes from opera broadcasts, made between 1934 and 1951, and it will increase our appreciation of one of the ‘Voices of the Century’

Bluebell - ABCD103

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Roberto Alagna: Mes plus grands rôles à l'opéra

Roberto Alagna: Mes plus grands rôles à l'opéra


Bizet:

Carmen (highlights)

recorded in Toulouse in February/March 2002

Angela Gheorghiu (Carmen), Inva Mula (Micaëla), Thomas Hampson (Escamillo)

Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Chœur Les Eléments, Michel Plasson

Donizetti:

Lucie de Lammermoor (highlights)

recorded in Lyon in January 2002

Natalie Dessay (Lucie), Nicolas Cavallier (Raymond)

Chœur et Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Evelino Pidò

Gounod:

Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

recorded in Toulouse in 1995

Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette), Alain Vernhes (Le Duc)

Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson

Massenet:

Werther (highlights)

recorded in London in August 1998

London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Manon (highlights)

recorded in Brussels in April/May 1999

Angela Gheorghiu (Manon), Yann-Armel Quemener (Le Portier du séminaire)

Orchestre Symphonique de l’Opéra Royal de la Monnaie, Bruxelles, Antonio Pappano

Puccini:

La Bohème (highlights)

recorded in London in 1996

Leontina Vaduva (Mimì), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Ruth Ann Swenson (Musetta), Simon Keenlyside (Schaunard), Samuel Ramey (Colline)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Tosca (highlights)

recorded in London in August 2000

Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Enrico Fissore (Sacristan)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano

La Rondine (highlights)

recorded in London in August in 1996

Angela Gheorghiu (Magda)

London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Firenze è come un albero fiorito (from Gianni Schicchi)

recorded in London in August 1997

London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Ecco la Casa...Torna ai felici di (from Le Villi)

London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano

Morire

recorded in London in August 1996

Antonio Pappano (piano)

Verdi:

Don Carlos (Five-act French version): highlights

recorded in Paris in March 1996

José Van Dam (Philippe II), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Eric Halfvarson (Le Grand Inquisiteur), Csabar Airizer (Un moine/Charles-Quint)

Orchestre de Paris, Chœur du Théâtre du Châtelet, Antonio Pappano

Il Trovatore (highlights)

recorded in August/September 2001

Angela Gheorghiu (Leonora), Thomas Hampson (Luna), Larissa Diadkova (Azucena)

London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Antonio Pappano

CD 1 75.39

Charles Gounod : Roméo et Juliette

1 Acte I - De grâce demeurez... Ange adorable (Roméo/Juliette) 4.06

2 Acte II - Cavatine : L’amour ! L’amour... Ah ! lève-toi, soleil ! (Roméo) 3.57

3 Acte III - Ah jour de deuil ! (Roméo/Le Duc/Chœur) 3.42

4 Acte IV - Va ! je t’ai pardonné...Nuit d’hyménée (Roméo/Juliette) 12.57

5 Acte V - C’est là !...Salut ! tombeau ! sombre et silencieux ! (Roméo) 5.35

Jules Massenet : Werther

6 Acte I - Je ne sais si je veille (Werther) 3.55

7 Acte II - Un autre et son époux… J’aurais sur ma poitrine (Werther) 3.00

8 Pourquoi trembler devant la mort… Lorsque l’enfant revient d’un voyage avant l’heure (Werther) 2.52

9 Acte III - Traduire... Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps (Werther) 3.15

Jules Massenet : Manon

10 Acte I - J’ai marqué l’heure du départ… Nous vivrons à Paris tous les deux (Des Grieux/Manon) 7.23

11 Acte II - En fermant les yeux (Des Grieux) 3.06

12 Acte III - Je suis seul ! Seul enfin !... Ah ! fuyez, douce image (Des Grieux/Le Portier du séminaire) 5.04

13 Toi ! Vous !... Oui, c’est moi ! (Des Grieux/Manon) 6.54

14 Acte IV - Ah ! Des Grieux (Des Grieux/Manon) 9.36

CD 2 79.50

Georges Bizet : Carmen

1 Acte I - Duo : Parle-moi de ma mère (Don José/Micaëla) 8.51

2 Acte II - La fleur que tu m’avais jetée (Don José) 3.39

3 Acte III - Va-t-en, va-t-en, tu feras bien… Je te tiens fille damnée (Carmen/José/Micaëla/Escamillo/Chœur) 4.11

4 Acte IV - C’est toi ! C’est moi ! (Carmen/Don José) 8.50

Gaetano Donizetti : Lucie de Lammermoor

5 Acte I - Sur la tombe de mon père... Ah ! vers toi toujours s’envolera (Lucie/Edgar) 9.31

6 Acte III - Tombes de mes aïeux (Edgar) 7.45

7 O bel ange, dont les ailes (Edgard/Raymond/Ashton) 5.08

Giuseppe Verdi : Don Carlos

8 Acte I - Récit et romance : Fontainebleau ! Forêt immense et solitaire ! (Don Carlos) 4.03

9 Acte II - Scène & duo : Dieu, tu semas dans nos âmes (Don Carlos/Rodrigue/Chœur/Un moine) 4.18

10 Acte V - Duo : Au revoir dans un monde où la vie est meilleure (Elisabeth/Don Carlos/Philippe/Le Grand inquisiteur/Charles-Quint/Chœur) 6.04

Giuseppe Verdi : Le Trouvère

11 Acte I - Il Trovator! Io fremo… Deserto sulla terra (Le Comte/Manrico) 1.47

12 Acte III - Ah, si ben mio (Manrico) 3.24

13 Di quella pira (Manrico/Leonora/Ruiz/Chœur) 3.12

14 Acte IV - Madre, non dormi?... L’invocai più volte… Si, la stanchezza m’opprime, o figlio (Manrico/Azucena) 8.47

CD 3 66.58

Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème

1 Acte I - Che gelida manina ! (Rodolfo) 4.40

2 O soave fanciulla (Rodolfo/Marcello/Mimì) 3.52

3 Acte III - Dunque è proprio finita (Rodolpho/Mimì/Marcello/Musetta) 5.37

4 Acte IV - O Mimi (Rodolfo/Marcello) 3.10

5 Sono andati? (Mimì/Rodolfo/Schaunard/Musetta/Marcello/Colline) 9.16

Giacomo Puccini : Tosca

6 Acte I - Dammi i colori!... Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi/Le Sacristain) 2.57

7 Mario Mario Non la sospiri la nostra casetta… Mia gelosia (Tosca/Cavaradossi) 12.54

8 Acte III - E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi) 3.14

Giacomo Puccini : La Rondine

9 Acte I - Parigi! À la città dei desideri (Ruggero) 2.28

10 Acte II - Duo : Paulette! I nostri amici (Ruggero/Magda) 2.16

11 Acte III Duo : Ma come puoi lascarmi (Ruggero/Magda) 5.22

Bonus

Giacomo Puccini : Gianni Schicchi

12 Avete torto!... Firenze è come un albero fiorito (Rinuccio) 3.21

Giacomo Puccini : Le Villi

13 Acte II - Torna ai felice dì (Roberto) 4.47

Roberto Alagna Roberto

Giacomo Puccini

14 Morire? 2.46

Version originale de l’air de La Rondine « Parigi! À la città dei desideri »


EMI - 6789782

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$19.75

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Franco Corelli: The Tenor as Hero

Franco Corelli: The Tenor as Hero


Annibale:

O Paese d' 'o sole

anon.:

Fenesta che lucive

Bellini:

A te, o cara (from I Puritani)

Meco all´altar di Venere (from Norma)

Berrafato:

Tu lo sai

Cairone:

Mon ciel, c’est toi

Pourquoi fermer ton cœur?

Cannio:

O surdato 'nnamurato

Capua:

I' te vurria vasà!

Cardillo:

Core 'ngrato

Catalani:

Nel verde maggio from Loreley

Cilea:

L'anima ho stanca (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Curtis, E:

Ti voglio tanto bene

Senza nisciuno

Tu ca nun chiagne

Torna a Surriento

Voce 'e notte

Denza:

Si tu m'aimais

Donaudy:

Vaghissima sembianza

Donizetti:

Spirto gentil ne' sogni miei (from La Favorita)

Falvo:

Dicitencello vuie

Guapparia

Giordano, U:

Andrea Chénier (highlights)

Antonietta Stella (Maddalena), Mario Sereni (Carlo Gérard)

Gounod:

Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

Mirella Freni (Juliette)

Handel:

Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse)

Lama, G:

Silenzio cantatore

Lara, Augustin:

Granada

Leoncavallo:

I Pagliacci: excerpts

Lucine Amara (Nedda), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Mario Spina (Beppe)

Mascagni:

Intanto amici…Viva il vino spumeggiante (Brindisi)

Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Massenet:

Ah! Tout est bien fini... O souverain (from Le Cid)

Meyerbeer:

Plus blanche que la blanche hermine (from Les Huguenots)

Sung in Italian as 'Non lunge della torre...Bianca al par di neve alpina'

Mingardo:

Carrettiere

Pedrazzoli:

Il canto della rinuncia

Pennino:

Pecchè?

Ponchielli:

Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)

Puccini:

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Principessa di morte! (from Turandot)

Rossini:

Petite Messe solennelle: Domine Deus

Schubert:

Ave Maria, D839

Serrano:

Te quiero moreno from El Trust de los Tenorios

Tagliaferri:

Piscatore 'e pusilleco

Tortorella:

Mammina mia

Addà turnà

Tosti:

A vucchella

Valente, N:

Torna!

Addio, mia bella Napoli

Verdi:

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller)

La vita è inferno … O tu che in seno (from La Forza del Destino)

O figli … Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Mercè, diletti amici (from Ernani)

Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)

Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida (from Aida)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)


Franco Corelli began his stage career in Italy in 1951. With his powerful voice, charismatic stage presence and film-star good looks he soon became one of the 20th century’s outstanding operatic superstars.

He first came to prominence when he sang opposite Maria Callas at La Scala, Milan, in a production of La vestale in 1954. He subsequently partnered Callas at La Scala in Fedora and Poliuto and later appeared with her at the end of her stage career in Norma in Paris in 1964 and Tosca in New York in 1965.

Corelli made a spectacular debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in January 1961 in Verdi’s Il trovatore. He quickly became the Met’s leading tenor and performed there every season until 1974.

He recorded extensively for EMI throughout the 1960s, when he made a number of complete operas as well as several albums of operatic arias and songs.

This 4 CD set brings together the best of Corelli’s EMI recordings. From his operatic catalogue come a substantial number of arias, as well as duets with Birgit Nilsson, Mirella Freni, Antonietta Stella and Gabriella Tucci.

The operatic composers whose works are included in the set are Bellini, Donizetti, Catalani, Ponchielli, Cilea, Massenet, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini, Giordano, Mascagni and Leoncavallo, and some of the operas represented are Turandot, I puritani, Norma, Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, Aida, Roméo et Juliette, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci.

In addition to the operatic material, there are a large number of songs, including popular Neapolitan titles such as ‘Core ’ngrato’, ‘Torna a Surriento’ and ‘’O sole mio’, plus other items like ‘Granada’, Schubert’s Ave Maria and the Ingemisco from Verdi’s Requiem.

This album also includes a song recorded in Milan in 1961: ‘Si tu m’amais’ by Luigi Denza, that has never been issued either on LP or on CD since its initial release only in Italy in 1962 on a 45 rpm single.

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Mirella Freni: The Opera Singer

Mirella Freni: The Opera Singer


Bellini:

Son geloso del zefiro errante (from La Sonnambula)

Nicolai Gedda (Elvino)

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Downes

O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave...Vien, diletto (from I Puritani)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris

Bizet:

Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (from Carmen)

Me voilà seule…Comme autrefois (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto

Charpentier, G:

Depuis le jour (from Louise)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris

Cilea:

Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Poveri fiori (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto

Donizetti:

Don Pasquale (excerpts)

Sesto Bruscantini (Pasquale), Gösta Winbergh (Ernesto)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

L'elisir d'amore (highlights)

Nicolai Gedda (Nemorino)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Ah, talor del tuo pensiero... Verranno a te sull'aure (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

Nicolai Gedda (Edgardo)

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Downes

Gounod:

Roméo et Juliette (highlights)

Michèle Vilma (Gertrude), Franco Corelli (Romeo)

Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Alain Lombard

Il était un roi de Thule... Ah! je ris (from Faust)

Paris Opéra Orchestra, Georges Prêtre

Mascagni:

L'Amico Fritz: excerpts

Luciano Pavarotti (Fritz)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gianandrea Gavazzini

Ah, il suo nome… Flammen perdonami (from Lodoletta)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Antonino Votto

Mozart:

La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)

Nicolai Ghiaurov (Giovanni)

Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni)

Vedrai, carino (from Don Giovanni)

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris

Puccini:

Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème)

Donde lieta usci (from La Bohème)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Thomas Schippers

Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)

Tu? Tu? Piccolo iddio (from Madama Butterfly)

Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano,, Milano Leone Magiera

O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)

Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano, Leone Magiera

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine)

Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano, Leone Magiera

Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)

In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut)

Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiano, Milano Leone Magiera

Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot)

Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot)

Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Alain Lombard

Verdi:

Otello (excerpts)

Jon Vickers (Otello), Stefania Malagu (Emilia)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata)

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Franco Ferraris

La Forza del Destino (highlights)

Placido Domingo (Alvaro), Francesca Garbi (Curra)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Riccardo Muti

Don Carlo (excerpts)

José Carreras (Carlo)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Aida (excerpts)

José Carreras (Radamès), Marilyn Horne (Amneris), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan


Mirella Freni (soprano)

Like Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni was also born in 1935 and was a native of Modena. She began singing at a very early age. She was soon heard by Gigli, who advised her to take up serious vocal studies and in 1955 she made her début at Modena as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen.

The association of Mirella Freni and EMI has been a long and fruitful one and some of her most notable recordings appear on the label. This 4-CD set includes examples of some of her most successful roles, including four excerpts from Mascagni's L'amico Fritz with Pavarotti and some material new to CD.

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