Composer: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini
Performer: Aleksandra Kurzak, Roberto Alagna
Orchestra: Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 19075859832
Release: 2018
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tosca, Atto I: “Mario!” – “Son qui!”
02. La Bohème Atto I: “O soave fanciulla”
03. Manon Lescaut, Atto I: “Vedete? Io son fedele”
04. Il Tabarro: “È bel altro il mio sogno”
05. Manon Lescaut, Atto II: “Tu, tu, amore? Tu?”
06. La Rondine, Atto II: “Paulette!”
07. La Fanciulla del West, Atto II: “Minnie che dolce nome”
08. Il Tabarro: “Dimmi: perché gli hai chiesto”
09. La Rondine, Atto III: “Nella tua casa”
10. Madama Butterfly, Atto I: “Viene la sera”
“Puccini In Love” is the first album by the award winning operatic tenor superstar Roberto Alagna and his wife, soprano Aleksandra Kurzak. Together they are the golden couple of the opera world. The album features some of Puccini’s greatest love duets including Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut as well as lesser known duets including Il Tabarro and La Rondine. Puccini in Love showcases some of Puccini’s most emotional and passionate operatic work. Puccini’s command of melody is truly unique to his time and combined with his orchestration creates cinematic and passionate compositions. Roberto Alagna has transcended genre’s through his music—not only is he an opera superstar but he has crossed over into other genre’s of music making his work easily accessible to many types of audiences. Aleksandra and Roberto have performed at some of the greatest opera houses across the world including The Royal Opera House in London, The Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.
Puccini love duets galore! That’s what the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and the tenor Roberto Alagna offer up here. Both are regulars on the world’s greatest stages and their voices seem to have been tailor-made for this repertoire. The heroines – Mimì, Minnie, Tosca, Giorgetta, Butterfly and Manon – represent the absolute woman with a femininity that fascinates the composer, attracting him, inspiring him and making him fall in love. The male characters are undoubtedly a reflection of his own personality. Rodolfo, Mario and Calaf too, who is so besotted with Turandot that he risks his life for her: man, lover, seducer, villain, deceiver, poet, artist, knight or traitor… No doubt Roberto Alagna sees himself in these characters as well. Their traits are similar from one opera to the next, but Puccini knew how to make each vocal idiom wonderfully unique.