[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 April 2021
Lise's second album explodes from the speakers with Leonore's aria from Fidelio, the role which bowled over critics in March 2020: "She will surely be the outstanding Leonore of the next generation." ★★★★ Financial Times. Presenting some of the great operatic heroines from the German and Italian repertoire: Verdi's Leonora from La forza del destino, Cherubini's Medea, and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana further demonstrating her versatility. Featuring Wagner's five Wesendonck Lieder which has become a signature piece for Lise and which affords us a glimpse of her future Isolde. Recorded in lockdown with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the doyen of British opera conductors, Sir Mark Elder.
"It's a one-in-a-million voice." Antonio Pappano
"Voices like hers come round once in a generation." - ★★★★ Financial Times
"The voice of the century." - ZDF Heute Journal
"A God-given instrument, used with sensitive artistry. To hear it alone is worth the price of any ticket." ★★★★ The Daily Telegraph
"A once-in-a-generation-voice" - Opera Magazine
"One of the greatest vocal talents to have emerged in recent years, if not decades." - Gramophone
GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Voice & Ensemble
"Another fine album from an artist who, quite simply, is one of the greatest voices to be heard today." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2021
"Davidsen's soprano has a brighter gleam and greater expansiveness than that of any other singer to have emerged on to the opera scene in the last decade. She's not a singer to signpost every moodswing; listen closely, though, and her attention to detail and to the colour of her sound is telling" The Guardian
Beethoven: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (from Fidelio)
Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65
Cherubini: Dei tuoi figli la madre tu vedi (from Medee)
Mascagni: Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana)
Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)
Verdi: Ave Maria (from Otello)
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (5)