Simply the Best Night at the Opera / Algana, Bartoli, et al

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Album Summary

Performers

• Susan Daniel (Mezzo Soprano)
• Lillian Watson (Soprano)
• John-Paul Bogart (Bass)
• Francois LeRoux (Baritone)
• Julia Johnson (Soprano)
• Placido Domingo (Tenor)
• Jose Cura (Tenor)
• Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano)
• Catherine Dubosc (Soprano)
• Roberto Alagna (Tenor)
• Sumi Jo (Soprano)
• Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano)
• Jerry Hadley (Tenor)
• Thomas Hampson (Baritone)
• Annick Massis (Soprano)
• Jules Bastin (Bass)
• Marilyn Horne (Voice)
• Robert Lloyd (Bass)
• Dawn Upshaw (Voice)
• Samuel Ramey (Voice)
• Natalie Dessay (Soprano)
• Anne von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
• Eva Urbanova (Soprano)
• Barbara Hendricks (Voice)
• Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo Soprano)
• Frederica Von Stade (Mezzo Soprano)
• Susan Graham (Mezzo-soprano)
• Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano)
• Tom Krause (Baritone)
• Ruggero Raimondi (Bass)
• José Carreras (Tenor)
• Håkan Hagegård (Baritone)
• José Van Dam (Bass Baritone)

Conductors

• Barenboim, Daniel
• Conlon, James
• Domingo, Placido
• Foster, Lawrence
• Janowski, Marek
• Lenárd, Ondrej
• Leppard, Raymond
• Lombard, Alain
• Maazel, Lorin
• Mehta, Zubin
• Nagano, Kent
• Olmi, Paolo
• Rizzi, Carlo
• Rostropovich, Mstislav
• Scimone, Claudio
• Sinopoli, Giuseppe
• Viotti, Marcello

Ensemble

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Composers

• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

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Works Details

Puccini, Giacomo : Turandot :: Nessun dorma

• Performer: Jose Cura (Tenor)
• Conductor: Placido Domingo
• Notes: Composition written: 1926.
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1926

Puccini, Giacomo : Gianni Schicchi, opera :: O mio babbino caro

• Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1918

Offenbach, Jacques : Gaîté Parisienne :: Messieurs, silence (Barcarolle)

• Performers: Catherine Dubosc (Soprano); Roberto Alagna (Tenor); Sumi Jo (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Donizetti, Gaetano : L' elisir d'amore, opera :: Una furtiva lagrima

• Performer: Roberto Alagna (Tenor)
• Conductor: Marcello Viotti
• Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1832

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante

• Performer: Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano)
• Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
• Running Time: 5 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Bizet, Georges : The Pearl Fishers, opera :: Au fond du temple saint

• Performers: Jerry Hadley (Tenor); Thomas Hampson (Baritone)
• Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
• Running Time: 7 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1863

Rossini, Gioachino : L' inganno felice, opera :: Al piü dolce

• Performer: Annick Massis (Soprano)
• Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
• Running Time: 5 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1812

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Così fan tutte, K 588 :: Soave sia il vento

• Performers: Jules Bastin (Bass); Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano)
• Conductor: Alain Lombard
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1790

Handel, George Frideric : MEDLEY :: Ombra mai fu

• Performer: Marilyn Horne (Voice)
• Conductor: Claudio Scimone
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1738

Stravinsky, Igor : Rake's Progress :: Quietly, night

• Performers: Robert Lloyd (Bass); Dawn Upshaw (Voice)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 6 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1951

Rossini, Gioachino : La Cenerentola :: Gi d'insolito ardore nel petto

• Performer: Samuel Ramey (Voice)
• Conductor: Claudio Scimone
• Notes: Composition written: 1813.
• Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1813

Offenbach, Jacques : Gaîté Parisienne :: Les oiseaux dans la charmille

• Performer: Natalie Dessay (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 5 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Massenet, Jules : Werther :: Pourquoi me réveiller

• Performers: Jerry Hadley (Tenor); Anne von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Rusalka :: Song to the moon

• Performer: Eva Urbanova (Soprano)
• Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd
• Running Time: 6 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Puccini, Giacomo : La bohème :: O soave fanciulla

• Performers: José Carreras (Tenor); Barbara Hendricks (Voice)
• Conductor: James Conlon
• Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1896

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Samson et Dalila, Op. 47 :: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix

• Performer: Marilyn Horne (Voice)
• Conductor: Lawrence Foster
• Running Time: 6 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1859-1877

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 :: Voi, che sapete che cosa è amor'

• Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Britten, Benjamin : Billy Budd, Op. 50 :: Look!... Through the port comes the moonshine astray!

• Performer: Thomas Hampson (Baritone)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1951

Monteverdi, Claudio : L'Incirinazione Di Poppea :: Lamento di Ottavia. Disprezzata Regina

• Performer: Frederica Von Stade (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Raymond Leppard
• Running Time: 6 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1642

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: Gualtier Maldè...caro nome

• Performer: Sumi Jo (Soprano)
• Conductor: Paolo Olmi
• Running Time: 5 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1851

Puccini, Giacomo : Manon Lescaut :: Donna non vidi mai

• Performer: Jose Cura (Tenor)
• Conductor: Placido Domingo
• Notes: Composition written: 1893.
• Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1893

Puccini, Giacomo : Madama Butterfly :: Un bel dì vedremo

• Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Notes: Composition written: 1904.
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1904

Berlioz, Hector : La damnation de Faust, Op. 24

• Performer: Susan Graham (Mezzo-soprano)
• Conductor: Kent Nagano
• Running Time: 8 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 11/1845-10/1846

Gounod, Charles : Faust :: Vous qui faites l'endormie

• Performer: José Van Dam (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Claudio Scimone
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859

Purcell, Henry : Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 :: Dido's lament. Thy hand, Belinda - When I am laid in earth

• Performer: Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Raymond Leppard
• Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1689

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Iolanta, Op. 69 :: Scene and Monologue by Ibn Hakia

• Performer: Tom Krause (Baritone)
• Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich
• Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1891

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre

• Performers: Ruggero Raimondi (Bass); Susan Daniel (Mezzo Soprano); Lillian Watson (Soprano); John-Paul Bogart (Bass); Francois LeRoux (Baritone); Julia Johnson (Soprano)
• Conductor: Lorin Maazel
• Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Puccini, Giacomo : Tosca :: E lucevan le stelle

• Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
• Conductor: Zubin Mehta
• Running Time: 4 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1900

Wagner, Richard : Tannhäuser :: Wie Todesahnung, Dämm'rung deckt die Lande...O du mein holder Abendstern

• Performer: Håkan Hagegård (Baritone)
• Conductor: Marek Janowski
• Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1843-1865