Marvellous Mezzo-Soprano and Contralto: Best Loved Opera Arias

Marvellous Mezzo-Soprano and Contralto: Best Loved Opera Arias

Various Artists
2021
Georges Bizet
Carmen, WD 31, GB9
Munich Radio Orchestra, Giuseppe Patanè, Marjana Lipovšek
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492, KV492 · “The Marriage of Figaro”
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, Michelle Breedt, Michael Halász
Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola, “Cinderella”
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Ewa Podleś
Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth
Munich Radio Orchestra, Agnes Baltsa, Heinz Wallberg
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq.  30 · “Orpheus and Eurydice”
Marjana Lipovšek, Munich Radio Orchestra, Giuseppe Patanè
Gioachino Rossini
L'italiana in Algeri, “The Italian Girl in Algiers”
Ewa Podleś, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288
Marjana Lipovšek, Munich Radio Orchestra, Giuseppe Patanè
Gaetano Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia
Tiziano Severini, Bergamo Musica Festival Chorus, Nidia Palacios, Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia, “The Barber of Seville”
Sonia Ganassi, Will Humburg, Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus
Antonio Vivaldi
Orlando, RV 728
Diego Fasolis, Sonia Prina, I Barocchisti
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Queen of Spades, Op.  68, TH 10
Bavarian State Orchestra, Algis Žiūraitis, Lyudmila Shemchuk
Gaetano Donizetti
La Favorite
Agnes Baltsa, Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
Barbara Dever, Rico Saccani, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Maria Dragoni, Kristjan Johannson, RTÉ Chamber Choir, Francesco Ellero d' Artegna, Mark Rucker, Riccardo Ferrari, RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La clemenza di Tito, K. 621, KV621 · “The Clemency of Titus”
Vienna Philharmonic, Tatiana Troyanos, James Levine
George Frideric Handel
Serse, HWV 40 · “Xerxes”
Munich Radio Orchestra, Giuseppe Patanè, Marjana Lipovšek
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide
Pier Giorgio Morandi, Ewa Podleś, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Richard Wagner
Siegfried, WWV86C
Matthias Goerne, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Deborah Humble, Jaap van Zweden
Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera, “A Masked Ball”
Ludmila Schemtschuk, Claudio Abbado, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
Georges Bizet
Carmen, WD 31, GB9
Marjana Lipovšek, Munich Radio Orchestra, Giuseppe Patanè

April 23, 2021 19 tracks, 1 hour 18 minutes ℗ 2021 Naxos

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