Renato Bruson Matteo Manuguerra Rolando Panerai - Great Opera Divas Renata Scotto (18 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Renato Bruson, Matteo Manuguerra, Rolando Panerai
Great Opera Divas: Renata Scotto
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Una voce poco fa
2. I Puritani, opera: Qui la voce... Vien diletto
3. La Traviata, opera: È strano!... Ah, fors' è lui... Follie! Follie!
4. La Traviata, opera: Dite alla giovane
5. La Traviata, opera: Teneste la promessa... Addio del passato
6. La bohème, opera: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimi
7. La bohème, opera: Donde lieta uscì
8. Gianni Schicchi, opera: O mio babbino caro
9. Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta
10. Turandot, opera: Tu che di gel sei cinta
Track Listings (8) - Disc #2
1. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Ben io t'invenni... Anchi'io dischiuso
2. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Donna, chi sei?
3. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Vogliatemi bene
4. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: un bel di vedremo
5. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: E questo?... Che tua madre dovr
6. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Con onore
7. Mefistofele, opera in prologue, 4 acts & epilogue: L'atra notte in fondo al mare
8. Pagliacci, opera: Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!... Stridono lassù

CD Details

All Artists: Renato Bruson, Matteo Manuguerra, Rolando Panerai, Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Arrigo Boito, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, John Barbirolli, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, National Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rome Opera House Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Alfredo Kraus
Title: Great Opera Divas: Renata Scotto
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Great Opera Divas
Release Date: 6/27/2000
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 793515766324

CD Reviews

The Tracks of the Diva

David R. Eastwood | Long Island, NY | 11/21/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Bellini's "Qui la voce ... Vien diletto" from I PURITANI is Ms. Scotto's best track, I believe. With one exception, all of the others are highly competent, and Scotto has a rich, warm soprano voice that does very well with Puccini's melodies. The one track that disappointed me is of Rossini's "Una voce poco fa" (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA): being a soprano, Scotto chose in an early key passage to take a higher note in place of the "correct" mezzo note. After listening to that track about 15 times, I found I was growing accustomed to this "flaw." What I could not overlook, though, was the sour note she hits about 15 seconds from the end. I wish that she and her conductor had either redone that track or had recorded a "patch" to be inserted to fix it. Even so, I'd rate that track a "C" (and I'd rate Kathleen Battle's recording of that aria much below that). Overall, this is a worthy CD for opera fans' collections."