ROBERTO ALAGNA LIVE IN PARIS

 

Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux/ Anton Guadagno

 

Live recording at Paris, Salle Gaveau, Paris, January 8 & 11 2001

 

Georges Bizet

Carmen: Overture

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don Giovanni: "Deh vieni alla finestra" (Don Giovanni)

 

Gioacchino Rossini

La Danza

 

Jules Massenet

Le Cid: "Ô Souverain, ô Juge, ô Père" (Rodrigue)

 

Giacomo Puccini

Turandot: "Non piangere, Liu" (Calaf)

 

Georges Bizet

Carmen: "La fleur que tu m’avais jetée" (Don José)

 

Gaetano Donizetti

L’Elisir d’Amore: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)

 

Jules Massenet

Thaïs: Méditation

 

Gaetano Donizetti

Lucia di Lamermoor: "Tombe degli avi mei" (Edgardo)

 

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

La Bohème: "Testa adorata" (Marcello)

 

Jacques Halévy

La Juive: "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" (Eleazar)

 

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

I Pagliacci. "Vesti la giubba" (Canio)

 

Traditional

"Fenesta che lucive", Arrangements: David and Frédérico Alagna

 

Buzzi-Peccia

"Lolita", Arrangements: David and Frédérico Alagna

 

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

I Pagliacci: "O Colombina" (Canio)

 

De Curtis

"Senza nisciuno", Arrangements: David and Frédérico Alagna

 

De Curtis

"Tu ca nun chiagne", Arrangements: David and Frédérico Alagna

 

Traditional

"Carretierre", Arrangements: David and Frédérico Alagna

 

Live in Paris was recorded in 2001 during the celebrations for the reopening of the prestigious Salle Gaveau in Paris. The programme: 18 of the greatest tenor arias

 

The French singer Roberto Alagna is one of the finest lyrical tenors of his generation. He regularly appears at the great opera houses worldwide, portraying the heroes of Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, Massenet and Bizet, among others. He has received remarkable critical acclaim throughout his whole career.

 

In 1994 Roberto Alagna was voted Musical Personality of the year by the French press. In 1997, at the time of his first performances in Werther; he won an award in the category Lyric Artist of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique ceremony. He received the Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris in 2001 and became Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of his international career one year later. At the 2004 Victoires de la Musique awards, he again won the trophy for Lyric Artist of the Year along with Best Opera Recording of the Year.

 

He is out-and-out magnificent: warm and tender, ardent and elegiac, with beautiful high notes, impeccable phrasing and singing of a perfect intelligibility.”

Le Monde 

 

DG DVD NTSC 4767397