A Toast to Melba

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Full of breathless expectation, her Jewel Song is perfectly articulated…Leïla’s Pêcheurs aria is exquisitely managed…The accompaniments are nicely delivered under Marko Letonja, with strong playing... — Opera, January 2019 More…

Release Date: 24th Aug 2018
Catalogue No: ABC4816297
Label: ABC Classics
Length: 60 minutes

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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 / Act 1

Work length3:43

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

"Ah, je veux vivre"

Track length3:43

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Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 1

Work length5:15

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

"Gualtier Maldè...Caro nome"

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Excerpt, Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

1. Les Nubiennes, valse (Allegretto)

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2. Adagio

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4 / Act 3

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

O Dieu! que de bijoux! ... Ah, je ris de me voir si belle

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Massenet: Manon / Act 3

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

Obéissons quand leur voix appelle

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Gounod: Mireille / Act 4

Work length2:31

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

"Heureux petit berger"

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Excerpt, Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

3. Danse antique (Allegretto)

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4. Variations de Cléopatre (Moderato maestoso)

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Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13 / Act 2

Work length6:27

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

"Me voilà seule dans la nuit" - "Comme autrefois, dans la nuit sombre"

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Rimsky Korsakov: Sadko / Tableau 4

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

Song Of The Indian Guest (French Translation)

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Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon / Act II

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

Oui, pour ce soir, je suis reine des fées ... Je suis Titania

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Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

5. Les Troyennes (Moderato con moto)

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6. Variations du miroir (Allegretto)

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7. Danse de Phryné (Allegro vivo)

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Duparc: Chanson triste

Work length3:28

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

Excerpt, Massenet: Don César de Bazan

Work length3:08

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Lorina Gore (soprano)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Marko Letonja
Recorded: 2018

Sevilliana

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Before La Stupenda came The Voice! Dame Nellie Melba was Australias first singing sensation, and one of the most famous Australians of her day; idolised in the theatre, mobbed on the street and known by name in even the most remote corners of the country. Soprano Lorina Gore and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra salute Dame Nellie Melba, Australias first singing sensation. Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1861, Melba was the first Australian classical musician to receive major international recognition, following her operatic debut in Brussels in 1887. That first appearance (as Gilda in Rigoletto) was described by a famous German critic as "an instant triumph of the most emphatic kind, and quickly led to debuts at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera. One of the undoubted stars of the Golden Age of Opera in the mid-to-late 19th century, Melba is also familiar to Australians through the dishes named after her most famously the Peach Melba, but also Melba toast and she also features on the Australian $100 banknote. Lorina Gore is a Helpmann and Green Room Award-winning soprano and has been a principal artist with Opera Australia since 2008. Her most recent credits include performing Musetta in La bohme at the Hanoi Opera in Vietnam, Roxana in Szymanowskis King Roger for Opera Australia, and her critically acclaimed performance as Ophelia in Brett Deans Hamlet at the 2018 Adelaide Festival. A Toast to Melba sees Lorina reunite with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Marko Letonja, their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, following the success of their collaboration on a disc of Johann Strauss: Waltzes and Arias, released on ABC Classics in 2016.

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January 2019

Full of breathless expectation, her Jewel Song is perfectly articulated…Leïla’s Pêcheurs aria is exquisitely managed…The accompaniments are nicely delivered under Marko Letonja, with strong playing from the orchestra.

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