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Various Artists
Operazone
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock, Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Una furtiva lagrima - Operazone, Verdi
2. La Love Theme - Operazone, Verdi
3. Mon coeur s'ouvre ? ta voix - Operazone, Puccini
4. Nessun Dorma - Operazone, Puccini
5. La Prelude - Operazone,
6. La Overture
7. E Lucevan Le Stelle
8. Act 2. Orchestral Background
9. L' Una furtiva lagrima (Reprise)

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CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Operazone
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Knitting Factory
Original Release Date: 5/9/2000
Release Date: 5/9/2000
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock, Classical
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Modern Postbebop, Bebop, Experimental Music, Meditation, Easy Listening, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 035828026727, 3660341123188

Synopsis

Album Description

This production by Alan Douglas and Bill Laswell reinvents our emotional participation in the operazone! In allowing Karl Berger to weave a magical tapestry of strings, Laswell has delivered a coup de grace with the rhythmic intensity of tabla beats and waves of sizzling cymbals. Stripped of the predictable, opera has been restored to the art of soulful surprise. Special six-page digipak reissue, with stunning Russell Mills artwork, of a release that has been absent from American shelves for a long time!

CD Reviews

Daring re-interpretation of opera classics

J. Stone | Birch Bay, WA USA | 05/02/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Opera lovers beware: These may be opera songs, but this is not opera music. If you only like classically styled music, stay away. This is music for jazz lovers, lush and stylish, with a sensual Spanish element evident throughout. I've never heard anything like it, and I loved it."

Innovative new disc

David Gooblar | New York | 06/07/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album blew me away. They took great opera melodies and put them in a different context. The spirit of jazz, improvising and subverting forms, is applied to the best part of opera. Great atmospheric stuff."

Classics never die

jarod oertel | michigan, saginaw | 12/10/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"laswell steps out from the dub chamber for a while to introduce you to a classic sound. although the songs are not originally his own laswell ads his own originally beats and if you really listen to laswell music in general you will hear some clips from other works. but in short for anyone looking for that classic i mean classic sound reinvented in the beat laswell way possible you need this one"