Essential Opera

Essential Opera

Essential Opera
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Performer: Sherrill Milnes
Performer: Leo Nucci
Performer: Tom Krause
Performer: Gino Quilico
Performer: Michael Kraus
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Alfredo Catalani
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Jacques Offenbach
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer: Francesco Cilea
Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: Charles Gounod
Conductor: Georg Solti
Conductor: Sir Georg Soliti
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Carmen, opera: Prelude to Act 1
  2. Tosca, opera: Vissi d'arte
  3. Il Trovatore, opera: Vedi! le fosche
  4. La boh�¨me, opera: Che gelida manina
  5. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Voi che sapete
  6. Rigoletto, opera: Bella figlia dell'amore
  7. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Va pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
  8. Carmen, opera: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
  9. La Wally, opera (dramma musicale) in 4 acts: Ebben? ne andr�² lontana
  10. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Largo al factotum
  11. Aida, opera: Gloria all'Egitto (Grand March and Ballet)
  12. Gianni Schicchi, opera: O mio babbino caro
  13. Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma
  14. Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Belle nuit, �´ nuit d'amour (Barcarolle)
  15. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel d�¬ vedremo
  16. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Finch'han dal vino (Champagne Aria)
  17. Manon Lescaut, opera: Donna non vid�¬ mai
  18. Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Intermezzo
  19. Turandot, opera: Non piangere Liù...Ah! per l'ultima volta
Music CD 2
  1. Die Walk�¼re (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: The Ride of the Valkyries
  2. Carmen, opera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
  3. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Non più andrai
  4. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Humming chorus
  5. La Traviata, opera: Un d�¬ felice
  6. Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta!
  7. Cos�¬ fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Soave sia il vento
  8. Pagliacci, opera: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba
  9. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Io sono docile
  10. Les P�ªcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: C'est toi...Au font du temple saint
  11. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Là ci darem la mano
  12. L'Arlesiana, opera: Lamento di Federico
  13. Lakm�©, opera: D�´me �©pais le jasmin
  14. Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
  15. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Dove sono
  16. Tosca, opera: E lucevan le stelle
  17. La bohème, opera: Si, Mi chiamano Mimi
  18. La bohème, opera: O soave fanciulla
  19. Die Zauberfl�¶te (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620: Der Vogelf�¤nger bin ich ja
  20. Faust, opera: Soldier's chorus

Music reviews of Essential Opera

Music Review: Great collection but the title's a misnomer
Rating: 5 Stars

The producers of Essential Opera 1 and 2 finally decided to give us a wonderful gift and combined the two for the price of one. The effect is an exciting collection for opera lovers and opera beginners alike. Thank you, producers.

However, I can't agree that the collection lives up to its name. How can it be essential when where is Maria Callas in the line-up? Absent Maria, any opera collection that deems itself "essential" deludes itself. Callas is as indispensable to opera as, say, Picasso is to cubism. To paraphrase Franco Zeffirelli, Callas showed us the maximum of what opera is. Callas IS essential opera.

This misnomer is made the more stark and jarring when one sees that a contemporaneous rival, Renata Tebaldi, is given two tracks to sing and Callas, none. Tebaldi was Callas' rival like Clementi was Mozart's--whoever remembers the rivals now? History has judged well who the masters are. So I listen to arias in this CD, arias that Callas have incomparably defined like Tosca's Vissi d'Arte, La Wallys's Ebben Ne'andro Lontana", to disappointment.

I'd give this disc four and a half stars for Callas' omission, but the Amazon rating system does not allow it. In any case, Tatiana Troyano's Habanera, Cecilia Bartoli's "Una Voce Poco fa," Krause, Popp, and Fassbaender's "Saove sia il vento," and Sutherland and Berbie's Lakme duet, and ten other tracks still make this compilation wonderful, exciting, and highly commendable. Do yourselves a favor and get this cd.

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