Mozart: Opera Arias - Various Artists
Product Details:
| Title: | Opera Arias |
| Composer: | Mozart |
| Artist: | Various Artists |
| Label: | EMI Classics |
| Catalogue No: | 5096802 |
| Format: | CD |
| Price: | $19.99 |
Product Description:
The late soprano Lucia Popp was a real treasure in earthen vessel... she matured over the years from a coloratura to a lyrico-spinto, on several occasions singing different roles from those she had done earlier in the same operas. She NEVER failed to bring joy.
Lucia was born to sing Mozart, and the great composer might well have written with her in mind. This release from at least two LPs is 77'24" of pure perfection. I'll only mention two examples...three cuts from "The Marriage of Figaro" show her in three different rolls, all done with beauty and style. The closing "Exsultate, jubilate" is as close as we're likely to get to Heaven's music this side of eternity.
Lucia was a pure delight, stolen from us by a brain tumor. She never failed to give us her all... grab this, and meet a truly great singer.
Tracklisting:
1. Il rè pastore, opera, K. 208: Act 2. L'amerò, sarò costante
2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Act 2. Voi, che sapete che cosa è amor
3. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Act 4. Giunse alfin il memento - Deh, vieni, non tardar
4. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Act 2. Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro, al mio duolo
5. Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384: Act 2. Welche Kummer herrscht in meiner Seele
6. Idomeneo, rè di Creta, opera, K. 366: Act 3. Solitudini amiche - Zeffiretti lusinghieri
7. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 2. In quali eccessi - Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata
8. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 2. Crudele? - Non mi dir, bell'idol mio
9. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act 1. Come scoglio immoto resta
10. Vesperae solennes de confessore for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 339: Laudate Dominum
11. Vesperae de Dominica, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 321: Laudate Dominum
12. Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano & orchestra, K. 165 (K. 158a): Exsultate, jubilate
13. Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano & orchestra, K. 165 (K. 158a): Fulget amica dies
14. Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano & orchestra, K. 165 (K. 158a): Tu virginum corona
15. Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano & orchestra, K. 165 (K. 158a): Alleluia
Re-order code: CD138703