The #1 Opera Album

The #1 Opera Album

The #1 Opera Album
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-02-27
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Carmen, opera: Act 1. Prelude
  2. La Traviata, opera: Brindisi. Libiamo, ne' lieti calici
  3. La bohème, opera: Che gelida manina
  4. Lakmé, opera: Flower Duet. Dôme épais le jasmin
  5. Fedora, opera: Amor ti vieta
  6. Carmen, opera: Habanera. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
  7. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. Va pensiero
  8. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Dove sono
  9. Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
  10. Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Bridal Chorus. Treulich geführt ziehet dahin
  11. Gianni Schicchi, opera: O mio babbino caro
  12. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Largo al factotum
  13. La Wally, opera (dramma musicale) in 4 acts: Ebben?... Ne andrò lontana
  14. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Humming chorus
  15. Carmen, opera: Flower Song. Le fleur que tu m'avais jetée
  16. Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle. Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour
  17. Tosca, opera: E lucevan le stelle
  18. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel dì
  19. Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: C'est toi... Au fond du temple saint
Music CD 2
  1. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: The Ride of the Valkyries
  2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Voi che sapete
  3. Pagliacci, opera: Recitar!... Vesti la giubba
  4. La bohème, opera: O soave fanciulla
  5. Il Trovatore, opera: Anvil Chorus. Vedi! le fosche
  6. Manon Lescaut, opera: Donna non vidi mai
  7. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Là ci darem la mano
  8. Mattinata ('L'aurora di bianco vestita'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  9. Faust, opera: Soldiers' chorus
  10. L'elisir d'amore, opera: Una furtiva lagrima
  11. Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta!
  12. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Champagne aria. Finch'han dal vino
  13. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Trio. Soave sia il vento
  14. Il Trovatore, opera: Di quella pira
  15. Tosca, opera: Vissi d'arte
  16. Carmen, opera: Toreador song
  17. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Love duet. Vogliatemi bene
  18. Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Intermezzo
  19. Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114): O silver moon (Mesícku na nebi hlubokém)
  20. La bohème, opera: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì
  21. Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma

Music reviews of The #1 Opera Album

Music Review: A superb collection of Opera favourites!
Rating: 5 Stars

I was raised in a large family headed by a single parent, my mother, who was widowed while pregnant with my brother. She had few moments of peace and quiet trying to raise the four of us in a small house. But Saturday afternoons, starting at 1:00, she demanded time for herself to listen, on the radio, to the Metropolitan Opera, live from Lincoln Center in New York, hosted by Milton Cross. This album nostalgically brings back to me those quiet Saturday afternoons, with the Opera on the radio, my mother sitting in her favourite chair reading.
None of us cared for Opera in those days. It wasn't until years later, watching a simulcast of Puccini's "La Boheme" on PBS that was also being broadcast on the radio, that I began to appreciate what my mother loved for all those years. To finally see the action, and to read the subtitles, made me realise how wonderfully romantic Opera really was, and this album is "mother's milk" to my ears. It's literally the best of the best of Opera arias and overtures, and now I regard this music with many fond memories of my childhood.
Also, if you are, like me, of the generation that was raised on Looney Tunes cartoons, you will recognise how many clever and downright hilarious send-ups they did of Opera, if you were listening to the music while watching the cartoons. Those cartoons were as much for the adult audiences as they were for children, and many of us received our earliest introductions to serious music through those classic cartoons. You will hear many of those arias and overtures that Warner Brothers used in those days in their cartoons. I only wish they would do something like that again so that today's children would not regard Classical Music as some kind of collosal bore.
If you've never listened to Opera, this is the album to get to introduce yourself to it. This features the very best of many composers and styles of Opera, and should be an essential part of any good music lover's library. I highly recommend this album for anyone who's either intimately familiar with Opera or who has never before listened to it. It's well worth your while to acquire this CD.
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Description of The #1 Opera Album

The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera Album. But that's no surprise, since Universal has some of the finest interpreters in its catalogue to draw from. This two-CD set (at the price of one), for example, brings together the likes of Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, and many more. Yet the other key to a successful compilation is canny anthologizing, and here again, you have a nice selection to give you a smattering of opera's heavyweights from the Italian, German, and French repertory (there's even a step outside the standard framework with an aria from Dvorák's lovely Rusalka). Ranging from 1959 to 1997, the choices from back catalogue will doubtless be the entry ticket for many into this grandest of the arts. --Sarah Chin

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