Verdi: Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) (Auto da fe Scene)

Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata)

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

Sempre libera (from La Traviata)

Noi siamo zingarelle (from La Traviata)

Di Madride noi siam mattadori (from La Traviata)

Teneste la promessa...Addio, del passato (from La Traviata)

Caro nome (from Rigoletto)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Un di, se ben rammentomi... Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto)

Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore)

Di quella pira (from Il trovatore)

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani)

Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

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

Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera)

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

Al suon del tamburo (from La Forza del Destino)

Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino)

Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)

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

Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida)

Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida)

O terra, addio (from Aida)

Dies Irae (from Requiem)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Fuoco di gioia (from Otello)

Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo)

Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)

O don fatale (from Don Carlo)

The operas of Verdi today form the mainstay of the repertoire of opera houses all over the world. Some of his music has become absorbed into popular culture from being used in TV adverts and film soundtracks, as well as being performed by the most famous classical singers of the day in concerts and on records. Pieces from the same opera are grouped together, beginning with the famous drinking song from La traviata: ‘Libiamo’, followed by other popular favourites from La traviata, Rigoletto and Il trovatore, among them being the swaggering ‘La donna è mobile’ and the powerful Anvil Chorus. The first CD concludes with extracts from two earlier operas: Ernani and Macbeth, the latter providing one of Verdi’s most impressive soprano scenas in which the scheming Lady Macbeth calls on the powers of evil to assist her in murdering King Duncan. The second CD opens with the heartfelt chorus: ‘Va, pensiero’ from Nabucco, sung by the Hebrews in exile longing for their homeland. Then come more well-known arias and choruses from Verdi’s later operas like Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino and Aida. After extracts from his moving Requiem Mass, we hear the Fire Chorus from another of Verdi’s Shakespearian settings: Otello and the programme ends with three items from what some now consider to be Verdi’s finest work, the historical drama Don Carlo.

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Essential Verdi

40 of his Greatest Masterpieces

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

La Forza del Destino: Sinfonia

Un dì felice, eterea (from La traviata)

Mercè, dilette amiche 'Bolero' (from I Vespri Siciliani)

Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata)

Di quella pira (from Il trovatore)

Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore)

Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida)

Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo)

La traviata: Prelude to Act 1

Caro nome (from Rigoletto)

O don fatale (from Don Carlo)

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

Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani)

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

Morrò, ma prima in grazia (from Un Ballo in Maschera)

Quando le sere al placido (from Luisa Miller)

Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida)

Dies Irae (from Requiem)

Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)

Questa o quella (from Rigoletto)

Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto)

Ave Maria (from Otello)

Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata)

Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth)

Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore)

O Carlo, ascolta (from Don Carlo)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Come in quest'ora bruna (from Simon Boccanegra)

Si colmi il calice di vino eletto (from Macbeth)

O patria mia (from Aida)

La mia letizia infondere (from I Lombardi)

Lo sguardo avea degli angeli (from I Masnadieri)

Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore)

Ah sì, ch'io senta ancora … Dal più remoto esilio (from I Due Foscari)

Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)

Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Montserrat Caballé, Leontyne Price, Jussi Björling, Carlo Bergonzi

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Verdi - Choruses

Fuoco di gioia (from Otello)

Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia (from Ernani)

Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida)

O tu che sei d'Osiride ... Vieni d'Iside al tempio (from Aida)

Elena Obraztsova (Amneris), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis)

Gerusalem! (from I Lombardi)

Che faceste? Dite su! (from Macbeth)

S'allontanarono! (from Macbeth)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi)

Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)

Posa in pace (from Un Ballo in Maschera)

Maria Maria...Viva Simon (from Simon Boccanegra)

Piero Cappuccilli (Paolo), José van Dam (Pietro), Giovanni Foiani (Simone)

Dies Irae (from Requiem)

Tuba Mirum (from Requiem)

Sanctus (from Requiem)

Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Claudio Abbado

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Verdi: Opera Choruses

Gerusalem! (from I Lombardi)

O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi)

Tre volte (from Macbeth)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

Le rube, gli stupri (from I Masnadieri)

Zitti, Zitti (from Rigoletto)

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Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore)

Di Madride noi siam mattadori (from La Traviata)

Posa in pace (from Un Ballo in Maschera)

Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)

Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida)

Sanctus (from Requiem)

Fuoco di gioia (from Otello)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti

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Great Opera Choruses

Beethoven:	O welche Lust! In freier Luft den Atem leicht zu heben! (from Fidelio)
Bellini:	Squilla il bronzo del dio...Guerra, guerra (from Norma)
Berlioz:	Dieux protecteurs (from Les Troyens)
Bizet:	Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen)
Boito:	Ave, Signor degli angeli e dei santi! (from Mefistofele)
Donizetti:	Per te d'immenso giubilo (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Gounod:	Faust : Marthe! - Dieu soit loué! C'est vous!...Déposons nos
Leoncavallo:	I zampognari!...Don din don (from I Pagliacci)
Mascagni:	Regina coeli laetare (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
Mozart:	O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne! (from Die Zauberflöte)
Mussorgsky:	Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene
Nicolai, C O:	Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Mondchor ('O süßer Mond')
Puccini:	Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly)
Tchaikovsky:	Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
Verdi:	Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore) Gli arredi festivi (from Nabucco) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi) Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) Giuramento (from La battaglia di Legnano) Urli, rapine (from Attila) Fuoco di gioia (from Otello) Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) Di Madride noi siam mattadori (from La Traviata) Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)
Wagner:	Summ' und brumm', du gutes Rädchen 'Spinning Chorus' (from Der fliegende Holländer) Steuermann, laß die Wacht! (from Der fliegende Holländer) Begluckt darf nun dich 'Pilgrims' Chorus' (from Tannhauser) Bridal Chorus 'Treulich geführt' (from Lohengrin)
Weber:	Was gleicht wohl auf Erden dem Jägervergnügen? (from Der Freischütz)

Joan Sutherland & Nicholai Ghiaurov

Wiener Philharmoniker & Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan

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Madrid, La Mancha, Toledo

Bizet:	Carmen: Entr'acte to Act II (Les Dragons d'Alcala) Garde montant from Carmen Suite No. 2 Carmen Suite No. 2 - Toreador Song Carmen Suite No. 2 - Toreador Song
Glinka:	Spanish Overture No. 2 'Summer Night in Madrid'
Lalo:	Andante from Symphonie espagnole
Massenet:	Madrilene (from Le Cid)
Paganini:	Romanza
Ravel:	Malaguena from Rapsodie espagnole Feria from Rapsodie espagnole
Rimsky Korsakov:	Scena e canto gitano from Capriccio espagnol
Verdi:	Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) from Act III of Don Carlo Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia (from Ernani) from Act III of Ernani

The music of Spain held an exotic attraction for composers from other lands. The Russians Glinka and Rimsky Korsakov found inspiration here, as did the French composers Lalo, Massenet and Ravel, who claimed Basque descent on his mother's side, and Bizet, whose opera Carmen is imbued with the spirit of the country. Spain provided Verdi with a narrative source, and another Italian, the demon violinist Paganini, was equally a master of the quintessential Spanish instrument, the guitar.

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Verdi: Opera Choruses

Noi siamo zingarelle (from La Traviata)

Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo)

Deus meus, pone illos ut rotam (from La Battaglia di Legnano)

Giuramento (from La battaglia di Legnano)

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

Fuoco di gioia (from Otello)

Patria oppressa (from Macbeth)

Si ridesti in ciel (from La Traviata)

Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida)

Lasciatelo, ch’ei vada... Rataplan (La forza del destino)

Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia (from Ernani)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi

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Verdi: The Operas

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Aida

recorded in Rome in 1961

Leontyne Price (Aida), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighele (Una Sacerdotessa)

Orchestra e coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Un ballo in maschera

recorded in Rome in 1961

Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Cornell MacNeil (Renato), Birgit Nilsson (Amelia), Giulietta Simionato (Ulrica), Sylvia Stahlman (Oscar), Tom Krause (Silvano), Fernando Corena (Samuel), Liberto Arbace (Tom), Piero de Palma (Un giudice), Vittorio Pandano (Un servo d’Amelia)

Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma

Don Carlo

recorded in London in 1965; five-act Italian version

Carlo Bergonzi (Don Carlo), Renata Tebaldi (Elisabetta), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Rodrigo), Grace Bumbry (Eboli), Martti Talvela (Il Grande Inquisitore)

Falstaff

recorded in Rome in 1963

Geraint Evans (Falstaff), Robert Merrill (Ford), Ilva Ligabue (Alice Ford), Rosalind Elias (Meg Page), Giulietta Simionato (Mistress Quickly), Alfredo Kraus (Fenton), Mirella Freni (Nannetta), John Lanigan (Dottore Caius), Giovanni Foiani (Pistola), Piero de Palma (Bardolfo)

RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Otello

recorded in Vienna in 1977

Carlos Cossutta (Otello), Margaret Price (Desdemona), Gabriel Bacquier (Iago), Peter Dvorsky (Cassio), Kurt Equiluz (Rodrigo), Kurt Moll (Lodovico), Stafford Dean (Montano), Jane Berbié (Emilia), Hans Helm (Un Araldo)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsopernchor

Simon Boccanegra

recorded in Milan in 1988

Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria/Amelia), Paata Burchuladze (Jacopo Fiesco), Paolo Coni (Paolo Albiani), Carlo Colombara (Pietro), Giacomo Aragall (Gabriele Adorno), Ernesto Gavazzi (Un Capitano dei balestri), Anna Zoroberto (Un’Ancella di Amelia)

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano

La Traviata

recorded live at Covent Garden in 1994

Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Frank Lopardo (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Germont), Leah-Marian Jones (Flora), Gillian Knight (Annina), Robin Leggate (Gastone), Richard Van Allan (Barone Douphol), Roderick Earle (Marchese d’Obigny), Mark Beesley (Dottore Grenvil), Neil Griffiths (Giuseppe), Rodney Gibson (Domestico di Flora)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra