[ Decca / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 29 July 2016
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Following Andrea Bocelli's recent smash-hit release "Cinema", the award-winning, top-selling, international tenor returns to his first love, singing opera
One of the world's best-loved operas, AIDA has been performed over 1,100 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone. Through an opera of high dramatic tension, Verdi offers monumental scenes and intimate drama
Taking the lead male role of Radamès - an Egyptian military commander - Bocelli's powerful tenor tells a compelling story of dedication, intrigue, power, and intense love
In this eagerly-awaited complete opera recording from superstar Andrea Bocelli, the tenor assembles a fine cast to explore Verdi's most spectacular work: the award-winning American soprano Kristin Lewis takes the role of Aida, the brilliant Italian mezzo Veronica Simeoni as Amneri. Giorgio Giuseppini takes the role of Il Re (the Egyptian King), the powerful Ambrogio Maestri ("Italy's answer to Bryn Terfel") as Amonasro and Carlo Colombara, renowned Verdi bass, as Ramfis.
Zubin Mehta conducts a spectacular performance from the orchestra and choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; one of high dramatic tension, theatricality, and deeply resonant passion
"Bocelli's great natural gift is a powerful tenor of very distinctive timbre, not conventionally rounded in a Pavarotti-like way but above all virile with a baritonal tinge." (Edward Greenfield)
1. Preludio
2. "Sì: corre voce che l'Etiope ardisca"
3. "Se quel guerrier io fossi!..Celeste Aida"
4. "Quale insolita gioia"
5. "Alta cagion v'aduna"
6. "Ritorna vincitor!"
7. "Possente, possente Fthà"
8. "Mortal, diletto ai Numi"
9. "Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi"
10. "Fu la sorte dell'armi a'tuoi funesta"
11. "Su! del Nilo al sacro lido"
12. "Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside"
13. Marcia
14. "Vieni, o guerriero vindice"
15. "Salvator della patria, io ti saluto"
16. "Che veggo!...Egli?...Mio padre!"
17. "Quest'assisa ch'io vesto vi dica"
18. "Ma tu, Re, tu signore possente"
19. "O Re: pei sacri Numi"
20. "Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside"
21. "O tu che sei d'Osiride"
22. "Qui Radames verrà!...O Patria mia"
23. "Ciel! mio padre!"
24. "Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida"
25. "Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti"
26. "Tu...Amonasro!...tu!...il Re?"
27. "L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggia"
28. "Già i Sacerdoti adunansi"
29. "Ohimè!...morir mi sento! Oh! chi lo salva?"
30. "Radamès! Radamès! Radamès!"
31. "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse"
32. "Presago il core della tua condonna"
33. "O terra, addio; addio valle di pianti"