THRILLING TENOR - Best Loved Opera Arias

 
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THRILLING TENOR - Best Loved Opera Arias
Piotr Beczała, János Berkes, John Dickie, Marcello Giordani, Vladimir Grishko, Marcus Haddock, Thomas Harper, Kristjan Johannsson, Torsten Kerl, etc

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Release Date: Friday 3 December 2021

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It is only since the bel canto era in the 19th century that the tenor voice really took off as a leading character in operatic roles, often playing the heroic figure against a love-interest soprano and a villain baritone. This collection of some of opera's most iconic arias takes us from the dark emotional crises of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Puccini's Tosca, to the seductive Rodolfo in La Bohème and Donizetti's showstopping high Cs in La Fille du régiment. Tenor showpieces that are so famous they have taken on a life of their own include 'Nessun dorma', made immortal by The Three Tenors at the 1990 World Cup.

Tracks:

Leoncavallo, Ruggero
Pagliacci (Clowns), Act I: Vesti la giubba (Canio)

Verdi, Giuseppe
Rigoletto, Act III: La donna è mobile… Un dì, se ben rammentomi (Duke of Mantua)

Verdi, Giuseppe
Aida, Act I: Se quel guerrier io fossi! … Celeste Aida (Radamès)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Don Giovanni, K. 527: Act II: Il mio tesoro intanto (Don Ottavio)

Donizetti, Gaetano
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love), Act II: Una furtiva lagrima (Nemorino)

Puccini, Giacomo
Tosca, Act III: E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Così fan tutte (All Women Are the Same), K. 588: Act I: Un'aura amorosa (Ferrando)

Handel, George Frideric
Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu (Serse)

Lehár, Franz
Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles), Act II: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Prince Sou-Chong)

Puccini, Giacomo
La Bohème, Act I: Che gelida manina (Radolfo)

Donizetti, Gaetano
La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment): Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête! (Tonio)

Puccini, Giacomo
Tosca, Act I: Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi)

Wagner, Richard
Die Walküre, Act I: Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (Siegmund)

Gounod, Charles-François
Faust, Act III: Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Faust)

Rossini, Gioachino
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Act I: Ecco, ridente in cielo (Conte)

Verdi, Giuseppe
Rigoletto, Act I: Questa o quella (Duke of Mantua)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, Act II: Kuda, kuda (Lensky's Aria) (Lensky)

Puccini, Giacomo
La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), Act III: Ch'ella mi creda (Dick Johnson)

Massenet, Jules
Werther, Act III: Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps (Werther)

Verdi, Giuseppe
La traviata, Act I: Libiamo, ne' lieti calci, "Brindisi" (Drinking Song) (Alfredo, Chorus, Violetta)

Puccini, Giacomo
Turandot, Act III: Nessun dorma (Calaf)