Amici Forever - The Opera Band
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Artist: Amici ForeverComposer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Composer: Edward Elgar
Composer: Antonio / Dettori, Giuseppe Galbiati
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Michael Kamen
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Alex North
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: James Shearman
Composer: Amy Sky
Composer: Peter / Wolf, Michelle / Fornaciari, Zucchero Wolf
Conductor: Nick Ingman
Performer: John Paracelli
Performer: John Parricelli
Performer: Tsakane Valentine
Orchestra: The Budapest Film Orchestra
Performer: Miles Bould
Performer: Nick Patrick
Performer: Jo Appleby
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-01-13
Music Label: RCA Victor
Soundtracks:
- Prayer in the Night
- Senza Catene (Unchained Melody)
- Canto Alla Vita
- Vita Mia
- Requiem for a Soldier (Band of Brothers)
- Whisper of Angels
- The Pearl Fishers
- Soave sia il vento
- Nimrod: Lux Aeterna
- Song to the Moon
- Zadok the Priest
- Nessun Dorma
Music reviews of The Opera Band
Music Review: Opera lite
Rating: 4 Stars
I am not a huge fan of opera music. Most of it gets on my nerves but I do like it when opera music is mixed in with a smidgeon of pop music. Amici Forever may not create opera music that is pure but their music is nice to listen to when I just want to unwind after a long day at the office. THE OPERA BAND is the group's first album. I heard about it through a television commercial a few years ago and bought a copy. I like the combination of male and female singers. While the song selection is rather predictable (because they have been covered by other artists in the classical/crossover genre), I thought the group did a good job. I particularly enjoyed their version of "Unchained Melody" and Elgar's "Nimrod". The music is a bit bland and the group offers nothing new that I haven't heard before in the classical/crossover genre, I still enjoy listening to their music. Their fusion of pop and opera helps take off the edge from the dark, heavy music I normally listen to on a regular basis/
Description of The Opera Band
The debut of the young, classically trained international quintet of sopranos Jo Appleby and Tsakane Valentine, tenors David Habbin and Geoff Swell, and basso Nick Garret offers up a familiar take on the crossover formula that has enriched everyone from genre pioneers The Three Tenors to Russell Watson and beyond. While their occasionally electro-pumped rhythms and youth-angled marketing shtick ("The world's first opera band!") may borrow a page from Opera Babes and Bond, it still manages to evoke the spirit (if not the letter) of its eclectic classical sources. And if the world hasn't exactly been burning for yet another dramatized update of Turandot's melodic "Nessun Dorma," The Pearl Fishers, or--for that matter--"Unchained Melody," Amici Forever's takes on the pop side of the crossover equation are indeed promising, recasting Alex North's "Unchained.." ("Senza Catene") and their reworked theme to the miniseries Band of Brothers("Requiem for a Soldier") in a successful, neo-classical light. If Neopolitan-shaded originals like "Canto Alla Vita" and "Vita Mia" sound like Josh Groban clones, their glorious harmonic vocal reworkings of Faure's "Pavane" ("Whisper of Angels") and Elgar's "Enigma Variations" ("Nimrod: Lux Aeterna") bristle with an ambitious sense of adventure that's missing from much of their crossover competition. Serious opera buffs may still quarrel with the daring "impurity" of it all, but if Amici Forever prod a few more pimply punters to peruse Puccini, won't it all have been worth it? --Jerry McCulleyDvorak, Antonin CDs
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- ( P ) > Puccini, Giacomo
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- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( D ) - Dvor?k, Anton?n - General
- Elgar, Sir Edward - Works by Elgar
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- Puccini, Giacomo - Works by Puccini
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