Natalie Dessay, soprano as Violetta, Eliva, Gilda, Guilietta, and Lucia ; Concerto Köln ; Evelino Pidò, conductor ; Europäischer Kammerchor ; Alessandro Galoppini, assistant ; Sascha Reckert, glass harmonica. Roberto Alagna as Alfredo in La Traviata ; Franck Ferrari as Riccardo and Matthew Rose as Giorgio in I Puritani ; Karine Deshayes as Anna in Maria Stuarda ; Roberto Alagna as Borsa, Franck Ferrari, as Marullo ; Matthew Rose as Ceprano in Rigoletto ; Franck Ferrari as Enrico ; Matthew Rose as Raimondo and Wolfgang Klose as Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor.. Compact disc accompanied by separate DVD. Program notes and libretto, with English translations, in booklet.
Contents:
Spargi d'amaro pianto / La traviata. E strano!... Ah, forś è lui... Follie! Follie!... Sempre libera / Donizetti. I puritani. O rendetemi la speme... Qui la voce sua soave... Vien diletto / Bellini -- Maria Stuarda. Allenta il piè, Regina... Oh, nube che lieve... Nella pace del mestro riposo / Donizetti -- Rigoletto. Gualtier Maldé... Caro nome / Verdi -- I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Eccomi in lieta vesta... Oh! quante volte / Bellini -- Lucia di Lammermoor. Mad scene. Il dolce suono... Ardon gli incensi... S'avanza Enrico... Spargi d'amaro pianto / Donizetti. Bonus DVD: Live from the Metropolitan Opera, Lucia Di Lammermoor starring Natalie Dessay as Lucia in the "Mad scene", taped on September 24, 2007. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet conducted by James Levine.
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