Opera

Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski

Album Description
Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.Amazon.com
Cecilia Bartoli’s new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led… More >>

Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski

Related posts

Fantasy: A Night at the Opera

Album Description
following forays into the modern, with Dalbavie and Pintscher, and into the baroque, with Bach’s complete sonatas, Emmanuel Pahud now pairs up with the exciting young Canadian conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in a program of virtuoso transcriptions based on operatic themes. `Night at the Opera’ features variations on Carmen, the Magic Flute, Rigoletto and others are coupled with some of the familiar flute solos from opera, including the entr’acte from Carmen and Glu… More >>

Fantasy: A Night at the Opera

Related posts

Renée Fleming – I Want Magic! ~ American Opera Arias

Product Description
Soprano sensation Renee Fleming performs American arias by Bernard Herrmann, Douglas Moore, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Andre Previn and Igor Stravinsky.
Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 15-SEP-1998Amazon.com
Like Dawn Upshaw’s The World So Wide on Nonesuch, this program is such an inviting cross section of American opera of the last 50 years, you wonder … More >>

Renée Fleming – I Want Magic! ~ American Opera Arias

Related posts