Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Umberto Giordano, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Dennis O’Neill, Alan Opie, Diana Montague, Nelly Miricioiu, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Bruce Ford, Barry Banks, Sharon Sweet, Marc Le Brocq, Janice Watson
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN3105
Release: 2004
Size: 294 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
01. Act I: Go on stage… – Put on your costume (Vesti la giubba) (Canio)
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
02. Act II: Heaven and sea! (Cielo e mar) (Enzo)
Verdi: Aida
03. Act I: I pray that I be chosen – Goddess Aida (Celeste Aida) (Radames)
Verdi: Il Trovatore
04. Act III: When holy church has blessed our love – That fierce inferno (Ah sì, ben mio – Di quella pira) (Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz, Chorus)
Verdi: Attila
05. Act III: Foresto, my soul belongs to you (Te sol, te sol quest’anima) Odabella, Foresto and Ezio)
Salvi: Il Duca d’Alba
06. Act I: Here, unobserved in this chapel – Angel of love (Angelo casto e bel) (Marcello)
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
07. Act I: One day, gazing at the splendor of Heav’n’s blue distance (Un dì all’azzurro spazio) (Chénier)
08. Act IV: Just like a day in May time (Come un bel dì di Maggio) (Chénier)
Verdi: Otello
09 .Act II: Ah! Would that God had given him a thousand lives! – Yes, I swear by skies of marble (Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro) (Otello, Iago)
10. Act IV: Do not fear me (Niun mi tema) (Otello)
Puccini: Tosca, SC 69
11. Act I: Give me my palette! – How strange a thing is beauty (Recondita Armonia) (Cavaradossi)
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West, SC 78
12. Act III: Let her believe that I have gained my freedom (Ch’ella mi creda) (Johnson)
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
13. My friend’s don’t go away – Neighbours, with a glass I meet you (Brindisi) (Turiddu, Lola, Chorus), “Turridu’s Drinking Song”
14. Mamma, mamma, this new wine really is powerful (Turridu, Lucia, Santuzza, Lola)
Rossini: Armida
15. Act III: I lost the will to action (In quale aspetto imbelle) (Ronaldo, Carlo, Ubaldo)
Puccini: La bohème, SC 67
16. Act II: Your tiny hand is frozen! (Che gelida manina) (Rodolfo)
