The Voice of Opera

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Se quel guerrier io fossi … Celeste Aida (Aida)
Giuseppe Verdi4:45
2Pace, pace mio Dio (La forza del Destino)
Giuseppe Verdi6:21
3At the Cathedral in Uglich (Clock Scene) (Boris Godounov)
Modest Mussorgsky5:41
4Ah, où va la jeune Indoue (Bell Song) (Lakmé)
Léo Delibes7:56
5Puisqu’on ne peut fléchir ces jalouses gardiennes (Le Roi d’Ys)
Édouard Lalo3:20
6Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila)
mezzo-soprano vocals [Dalila]:
Marilyn Horne (American operatic mezzo-soprano) (on 1967-10-13)
orchestra:
Orchester der Wiener Volksoper (in 1967-10), Wiener Opernorchester (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) (on 1967-10-13) and Wiener Opernorchester (on 1967-10-13)
conductor:
Henry Lewis (conductor) (on 1967-10-13)
recorded at:
Sofiensaal in Landstraße, Wien (Vienna), Austria (on 1967-10-13)
recording of:
Samson et Dalila : Acte II, scène 3. « Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix » (Dalila) (on 1967-10-13)
composer:
Camille Saint‐Saëns (composer)
part of:
Samson et Dalila : Acte II
Camille Saint‐Saëns6:32
7Vesti la giubba (I Pagliacci)
Ruggero Leoncavallo3:24
8Quando men’vo (La Boheme)
Giacomo Puccini2:34
9Un bel dì vedremo (Madama Butterfly)
recording of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Un bel dì, vedremo” (Butterfly)
composer:
Giacomo Puccini (Italian composer)
librettist:
Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
part of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II (Madame Butterfly: Act II, also: Atto II, parte 1)
Giacomo Puccini4:54
10Amor ti vieta (Fedora)
Umberto Giordano1:50
11Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha! (Die Walküre)
Richard Wagner7:14
12Selig, wie die Sonne (Quintet) (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Richard Wagner6:02
13Marie Theres’! … Hab’ mir’s gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)
Richard Strauss5:02
14Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Porgy and Bess)
bass-baritone vocals:
Simon Estes (bass-baritone)
soprano vocals:
Roberta Alexander (soprano)
vocals:
Roberta Alexander (soprano) and Simon Estes (bass-baritone)
orchestra:
Rundfunk‐Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, East Berlin, 1923–)
conductor:
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
recording of:
Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. “Bess, You Is My Woman Now”
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (from 1934 until 1935)
part of:
Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I
George Gershwin5:39
15Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter Grimes)
Benjamin Britten3:46