A to Z of Opera

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A to Z of Opera

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Booklet languages: English
Time: 157:17
Release Date: 2000

Performances

Composer	Title	Time
Claudio Monteverdi	La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318 (Sinfonia & Ecco pur ch'a voi)	1:41
Henry Purcell	When I am laid in earth (from "Dido and Aeneas"), soprano aria (Dido's Lament), Z. 626/38b	3:51
George Frederick Handel	Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7 (Lascia ch'io pianga)	3:47
George Frederick Handel	Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40 (Ombra mai fù (Largo))	2:47
Christoph Willibald Gluck	Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Melody), arrangement (from "Orfeo ed Euridice")	6:06
Christoph Willibald Gluck	Alceste (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 37 (Ombre larve)	3:47
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527 (Madamina! (Catalogue Aria))	5:42
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588 (Soave sia il vento (Terzetto))	3:11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 (Non più andrai)	3:50
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620 (Aria of the Queen of the Night)	2:53
Ludwig van Beethoven	Fidelio, opera, Op. 72 (Abscheulicher!)	7:26
Carl Maria von Weber	Der Freischütz, opera, J. 277 (Op. 77) (Huntsmen's Chorus)	2:39
Gioachino Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera (Largo al factotum)	4:35
Gaetano Donizetti	L'elisir d'amore, opera (Una furtiva lagrima)	5:11
Vincenzo Bellini	I Puritani, opera (Qui la voce sua soave)	5:25
Giuseppe Verdi	La Traviata, opera (Un dì felice)	3:05
Giuseppe Verdi	Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor) (Va pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves))	4:41
Giuseppe Verdi	Aida, opera (Grand March)	1:43
Giuseppe Verdi	Falstaff, opera (E sogno? O realitá)	6:08
Giuseppe Verdi	Rigoletto, opera (La donna è mobile)	2:15
Richard Wagner	Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b (Ride of the Valkyries)	5:24
Richard Wagner	Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70 (Pilgrims' Chorus)	3:46
Alfredo Catalani	La Wally, opera (dramma musicale) in 4 acts (Ebben, ne andrò lontana)	3:30
Antonin Dvorák	Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114) (O, Silver Moon)	5:54
Giacomo Puccini	Gianni Schicchi, opera (O mio babbino caro)	2:20
Giacomo Puccini	La bohème, opera (Che gelida manina)	4:25
Giacomo Puccini	Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera (Un bel dì vedremo)	4:37
Giacomo Puccini	Tosca, opera (E lucevan le stelle)	3:00
Giacomo Puccini	Turandot, opera (Nessun dorma)	3:01
Léo Delibes	Lakmé, opera (Flower Duet)	5:26
Jules Massenet	Méditation, for violin & orchestra (or other arrangement) (from opera "Thaïs")	4:40
Georges Bizet	Carmen, opera (L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera))	4:52
Georges Bizet	Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts (Au fond du temple saint)	5:51
Ruggero Leoncavallo	Pagliacci, opera (Recitar!... Vesti la giubba)	3:14
Pietro Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act (Intermezzo)	3:41
Umberto Giordano	Andrea Chénier, opera (Come un bel dì di maggio)	2:55
Karol Szymanowski	Król Roger (King Roger), opera in 3 acts, Op. 46, M55 (Roxana's Aria)	4:23
Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), opera, Op. 12 (Marietta's Lied)	5:35