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Voce di Donna (Voice of the Women)-Internationally Renowned Mezzo-Soprano Sings Arias By Bizet, Handel, Purcell, Gluck, Cilea, Barber, Donizetti, Mascagni & Saint-Saens.
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Track Listing
- Carmen: Quand je vous aimerai?... L'amour est un oiseau rebelle - (Habanera)
- Carmen: Pres des remparts de Seville - (Seguidilla)
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Ahime!...Che faro senza Euridice?
- La Gioconda: Voce di donna
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Acerba volutta
- Dido and Aeneas: Thy hand, Belinda... When I Am Laid In Earth
- Amadigi di Gaula: D' un sventurato amante...Pena tiranna
- La Favorite: Fia dunque vero...O mio Fernando!
- VANESSA: Must The Winter Come So Soon
- Vavalleria rusticana: Voi lo sapete
- Werther: Werther, Werther! - (Air des lettres)
- Werther: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes
- Samson et Dalila: Printemps qui commence
- Samson et Dalila: Samson...Amour! Viensaider ma faiblesse!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #62715 in Music
- Released on: 1999-10-12
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 4.00" w x 6.00" l, .23 pounds
Editorial Reviews
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This isn't mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves's first solo disc (she has previously released a compilation of romantic opera heroines), but it's definitely her most impressive. Like many beginning recording artists, she hasn't always been able to project her stage electricity into the microphone, but with such a sumptuous voice, one doesn't always mind. Here, though, there's not a dull moment in two choice arias each from roles Graves has sung often onstage: her signature role of Carmen and her almost-as-famous Dalila. There's also a fairly promising preview of the Charlotte from Werther, which she'll sing with Andrea Bocelli in October 1999 in Detroit, though one senses she still has work to do in learning to act with her voice. Two baroque-period selections, an aria from Handel's Amadigi and Purcell's famous "When I Am Laid in Earth" from Dido and Aeneas, suffer from imprecise diction and messy ornaments. But the aria in which Graves sounds most emotionally present is, oddly enough, "Must the Winter Come So Soon" from Barber's Vanessa. Her vivid reading reminds you of what happens onstage with her and hopefully what's to come on recordings. --David Patrick Stearns
