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French Opera Arias

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2006-07-04

Works: François Bazin: Maître Pathelin; Jules Massenet: Le Cid; Luigi Cherubini: Les abencérages; Charles Gounod: Mireille; André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: L' Amant jaloux (Les Fausses...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Ellis, James; Foster, Lucy; Fyfe, Elizabeth
Conductors: De Billy, Bertrand
Ensemble: London Voices; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Gramophone wrote of this album of French Opera Arias: "A fine recital by Alagna which finds him in good voice and exploiting a sensitive feeling...continue...
This disc received the 2001 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Recital Recording."...continue...

Ben Heppner - Airs Français / Myung-Whun Chung, London SO

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2001-11-13

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a; La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Benvenuto Cellini, opera Op. 23; Béatrice et Bénédict, opera, H. 138; Fromental Halévy: La juive;...
Performers: Heppner, Ben [Tenor Vocals]; Silverthorne, Paul
Conductors: Chung, Myung-Whun
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; London Voices

This first solo release from Ben Heppner on the DG label features grand, dramatic, and lyrically sweeping arias by the great French Romantics - Berlioz,...continue...