Opera excerpts. Program notes by Elīna Garanča in English, German, and French, and texts with French, German, Italian, and English translations (where applicable) (39 pages : portraits) inserted in container. Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano ; Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana ; Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana (tracks 4, 10) ; Roberto Abbado, conductor. Recorded 2016 June Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Spain.
Contents:
Cavalleria rusticana. Voi lo sapete, o mamma / Pietro Mascagni (3:38) -- Adriana Lecouvreur. Acerba voluttà, dolce tortura ... O vagabonda stella d'Oriente / Francesco Cilea (4:14) -- Les Troyens. Ah! Ah! Je vais mourir ... Adieu, fière cité / Hector Berlioz (6:45) --Don Carlo. Ne giardin del bello / Giuseppe Verdi (4:44) -- Samson et Dalila. Samson, recherchant ma présence ... Amour, viens aider me faiblesse / Camille Saint-Saëns (4:06) -- Boris Godunov. Skučno, Marine ... Kak tomitel'no i vyalo / Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (4:09) -- Adriana Lecouvreur. Ecco, respiro appena ... Io son l'umile ancella / Francesco Cilea (3:38) -- Hérodiade. Venge-moi d'une suprême offense! ... Ne me refuse pas / Jules Massenet (6:35) -- Mignon. Connais-tu le pays / Ambroise Charles Louis Thomas (5:46) -- La forza del destino. Rataplan, rataplan, rataplan / Giuseppe Verdi (3:02) -- La gioconda. Ho il cuor gonfio di lagrime-- Stella del marinar! / Amilcare Ponchielli (2:44) -- Werther. Va! Laisse couler mes larmes / Jules Massenet (2:47) -- La bohème. È destin, debbo andarmene ... Marcello mio / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (5:52) -- Henry VIII. Reine! Je serai reine! / Camille Saint-Saëns (3:07).
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