Passione: Opera for Lovers

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Album Summary

Performers

• Evelyn Lear (Soprano)
• Stefania Woytowicz (Soprano)
• John Dickie (Voice)
• Hermann Prey (Voice)
• Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Alto)
• Peter-Jurgen Schmidt (Voice)
• Hanne-Lore Kuhse (Voice)
• Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Paolo Gavanelli (Baritone)
• Lucia Vocals] (Soprano)
• Armin Ude (Tenor)
• Ute Selbig (Soprano)
• Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (Soprano)
• Roberto Frontiali (Baritone)
• Anton Ridder (Voice)
• Siegfried Vogel (Bass)
• Karola Agay (Soprano)
• Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Thomas Stewart (Voice)
• Eberhard Büchner (Tenor)

Conductors

• Fricke, Heinz
• Kurz, Siegfried
• Luisi, Fabio
• Masur, Kurt
• Neumann, Vaclav
• Patane, Giuseppe
• Pommer, Max
• Suitner, Otmar
• Viotti, Marcello
• Vonk, Hans
• Winkler, Johannes

Ensemble

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Composers

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Otto Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919)
• Gian Francesco Malipiero (Composer) (1882 - 1973)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
• Richard Wagner (Classical) (1813 - 1883)

Notes & Reviews:

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Works Details

Rossini, Gioachino : Il Barbiere di Siviglia :: Una voce poco fa

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 6 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1816

Bellini, Vincenzo : Beatrice di Tenda, opera :: Oh! divina Agnese

• Performers: Paolo Gavanelli (Baritone); Lucia Vocals] (Soprano)
• Conductor: Fabio Luisi
• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1833

Bellini, Vincenzo : Beatrice di Tenda, opera :: Ah! la pena in lor piombò

• Performers: Lucia Vocals] (Soprano); Paolo Gavanelli (Baritone)
• Conductor: Fabio Luisi
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1833

Donizetti, Gaetano : Don Pasquale :: Che interminabile andirivieni

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 3 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1843

Donizetti, Gaetano : Don Pasquale :: Tornami a dir che m'ami

• Performers: Armin Ude (Tenor); Ute Selbig (Soprano)
• Conductor: Hans Vonk
• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1843

Verdi, Giuseppe : Otello :: Fuoco di gioia

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1887

Bellini, Vincenzo : La sonnambula, opera :: Care compagne - Come per me sereno

• Performer: Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (Soprano)
• Conductor: Johannes Winkler
• Running Time: 7 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1831

Bellini, Vincenzo : I Puritani, opera :: Qui la voce sua soave - Vien, diletto

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 8 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1835

Leoncavallo, Ruggero : Il Pagliacci :: Don din don

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1892

Bellini, Vincenzo : Il Pirata, opera :: Ah! lo sento

• Performers: Lucia Vocals] (Soprano); Roberto Frontiali (Baritone)
• Conductor: Marcello Viotti
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1827

Bellini, Vincenzo : Il Pirata, opera :: Col sorriso d'innocenza

• Performers: Lucia Vocals] (Soprano); Roberto Frontiali (Baritone)
• Conductor: Marcello Viotti
• Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1827

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor :: Spargi d'amaro pianto

• Performers: Anton Ridder (Voice); Siegfried Vogel (Bass); Karola Agay (Soprano)
• Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1835

Donizetti, Gaetano : Lucia di Lammermoor :: Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali

• Performers: Karola Agay (Soprano); Siegfried Vogel (Bass); Anton Ridder (Voice)
• Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè
• Running Time: 4 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1835

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Così fan tutte, K 588 :: Un'aura amorosa

• Performer: Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 5 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1790

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Là ci darem la mano

• Performers: Thomas Stewart (Voice); Evelyn Lear (Soprano)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Haydn, Franz Joseph : La Frascatana :: D'una sposa meschinella

• Performer: Stefania Woytowicz (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 7 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1777

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Apollo et Hyacinthus :: Natus cadit, atque Deus

• Performers: John Dickie (Voice); Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (Soprano)
• Conductor: Max Pommer
• Notes: Composition written: 1767.
• Running Time: 6 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1767

Malipiero, Gian Francesco : Julius Cäsar :: Caro! Bella! Più amabile belta

• Performers: Evelyn Lear (Soprano); Thomas Stewart (Voice)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 6 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze de Figaro :: Non piu andrai

• Performer: Hermann Prey (Voice)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1786

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Orfeo ed Euridice :: Che farò senza Euridice

• Performer: Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: Václav Neumann
• Running Time: 4 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384 :: Constanze, dich wiederzusehen

• Performer: Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Notes: Composition written: 1782.
• Running Time: 5 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1782

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384 :: Ach, ich liebte, war so glücklich

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Notes: Composition written: 1782.
• Running Time: 5 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1782

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 :: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schöm

• Performers: Hermann Prey (Voice); Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 4 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1791

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 :: Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen

• Performers: Hermann Prey (Voice); Peter Schreier (Tenor)
• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 3 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1791

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Près des remparts de Séville

• Performers: Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Alto); Peter-Jurgen Schmidt (Voice)
• Conductor: Siegfried Kurz
• Running Time: 4 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Mascagni, Pietro : Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act :: Ah! Gli arancio lezzano

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 7 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Verdi, Giuseppe : Simone Boccanegra :: Favella il Doge ad Amelia Grimaldi?

• Performers: Evelyn Lear (Soprano); Thomas Stewart (Voice)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 11 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1857

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Samson et Dalila :: Mon cour s'ouvre à ta voix

• Performer: Ute Trekel-Burckhardt (Alto)
• Conductor: Siegfried Kurz
• Running Time: 5 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1859-1877

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: Gualtier Maldé - Caro nome

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 6 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1851

Puccini, Giacomo : La bohème :: Che gelida manina

• Performer: Eberhard Büchner (Tenor)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 4 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1896

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Einsam in trüben Tagen hab' ich zu Gott gefleht

• Performer: Hanne-Lore Kuhse (Voice)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 5 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Wagner, Richard : Lohengrin :: Treulich geführt ziehet dahin

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 4 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1848

Nicolai, Otto : Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor :: O süßer Mond

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Notes: Composition written: 1849.
• Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1849

Verdi, Giuseppe : Aida, opera :: A te grave cagion m'adduce,

• Performers: Evelyn Lear (Soprano); Thomas Stewart (Voice)
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Notes: Composition written: 1871.
• Running Time: 9 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1871

Gounod, Charles : Margarete :: Il était un roi de Thulé - Ah! Je ris de me voir

• Performer: Sylvia Geszty (Soprano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 8 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859