Renée Fleming : greatest moments at the Met.
Material type: MusicPublisher number: 485 3569 | DeccaSpoken language: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Czech Publisher: Hilversum, Netherlands : Decca, [2022]Copyright date: ℗2022Description: 2 audio discs (143 min., 48 sec.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- performed music
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- Greatest moments at the Met
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Dr. James Carlson Library | CD | OPERA Fleming, Renée | Available | 33111009989613 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
There are various Renée Fleming collections on the market, but there is a lot to be said for this collection of numbers she sang at New York's Metropolitan Opera, a house with which she is profoundly identified. The selections were made by Fleming herself, and they are hard to quarrel with. This voice of a thousand shades is displayed in all its variety right off, with startling shifts from Mozart to Verdi to Strauss to Britten. As things proceed, one can't help but be amazed by Fleming's linguistic facility, with pieces in Italian, German, English, French, Russian, and Czech all inhabited fully. The two varieties of English, and the two entirely different dramatic atmospheres, in Britten's Peter Grimes and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, are flawlessly mastered. The recordings mostly date from between 1994 and 2008, the golden age of Fleming's voice, but there is a Merry Widow from 2015 that shows her in fine form. Her pathbreaking appearance in Handel's Rodelinda is included; it is easy to forget that top-rank sopranos didn't often appear in Baroque opera until Fleming came along. The Met is not a comfortable house for live-recording engineers, but the material is well-mastered and comes off as a sonic whole. Beyond Fleming fans, who will love this, this is a fine collection for anyone wanting to appreciate what Renée Fleming is all about. ~ James Manheim
Opera selections.
Sung in English, French, German, Italian, Czech and Russian.
Title from disc label.
Compact discs.
Renée Fleming, soprano ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; with various musicians.
Recorded live 1994-2015 the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.
CD 1 (66:06). Le nozze di Figaro. E susanna non vien... (1:57) ; ...Dove sono i bei momenti (5:17) ; Cosa mi narri! (0:40) ; Sull'aria...Che soave zeffiretto (3:17) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Otello. Era più calmo? (4:27) ; Piangea cantando (7:01) ; Ave Maria, piena di grazia (5:47) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Arabella. Das war sehr gut, Mandryka / Richard Strauss (4:53) -- Peter Grimes. Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness / Benjamin Britten (5:17) -- Louise. Depuis le jour / Gustave Charpentier (5:59) -- Faust. Alerte! Alerte! ou vous êtes perdus! / Charles Gounod (3:10) -- Rusalka. Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém / Antonín Dvořák (7:07) -- Manon. Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (3:32) ; Toi! Vous! (3:50) ; N'est-ce plus ma main que cette main presse (3:52) / Jules Massenet.
CD 2 (77:42). Susannah. Ain't it a pretty night! (5:41) ; That's mighty pretty singin', Susannah (4:28) / Carlisle Floyd -- Der Rosenkavalier. Marie Theres'! / Richard Strauss (5:33) -- Don Giovanni. Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!... (1:59) ; ...Non mi dit, bell'idol mio (5:55) / Mozart -- Il pirata. Col sorriso d'innocenza / Vincenzo Bellini (4:22) -- La traviata. Ah! Dite alla giovine (4:53) ; Imponete-Non amarlo ditegli (4:50) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Rodelinda. Mio caro bene / George Frideric Handel (4:02) -- Eugene Onegin. O! Kak mnye tyazhelo! (2:06) ; Onegin! Ya togda molozhe (10:01) / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Thaïs. Ah je suis seule... (2:30) ; ...Dis-moi que je suis belle (4:15) / Jules Massenet -- Armida. Dove son io?...Fuggi! (5:06) ; È ver...gode quest'anima (2:18) / Gioachino Rossini -- The merry widow (Die lustige Witwe). Hello, here's a soldier bold / Franz Lehár (3:12) -- Die tote Stadt. Glück, das mir verblieb / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (6:32).