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The ghosts of Versailles : a grand opera buffa in two acts / John Corigliano, William M. Hoffman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: PTC 5186 538 | Pentatone MusicPTC 5186 589 | Pentatone MusicPTC 5186 590 | Pentatone MusicSeries: Pentatone American operasPublisher: [Netherlands] : Pentatone Music, 2016Copyright date: ℗2016Description: 2 audio discs (ca. 155 min.) : digital, SACD ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), sopranos ; Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Victoria Livengood (Woman with hat), mezzo-sopranos ; Joshua Guerrera (Count Almaviva), Brenton Ryan (Léon), Scott Scully (Marquis), tenors ; Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), baritones ; Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass (Louis XVI) ; with various other performers ; LA Opera ; James Conlon, conductor.
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Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD OPERA Corigliano, John Available 33111008670909
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

John Corigliano's opera, performed here live, is comic and serious, entertaining and erudite, silly and thoughtful, emotional and mysterious, harrowing and uplifting, intimate and over-the-top.

Pentatone Music: PTC 5186 538 (PTC 5186 589 (CD 1), PTC 5186 590 (CD 2)).

A grand opera buffa in two acts.

Sung in English.

Title from disc label.

Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), sopranos ; Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Victoria Livengood (Woman with hat), mezzo-sopranos ; Joshua Guerrera (Count Almaviva), Brenton Ryan (Léon), Scott Scully (Marquis), tenors ; Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), baritones ; Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass (Louis XVI) ; with various other performers ; LA Opera ; James Conlon, conductor.

Recorded live, February and March 2015, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center, Calif.

Super audio compact discs.

This SA-CD can also be played on a regular CD player though only in stereo.

Program notes and libretto (131 pages) in container.

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