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The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever! | 
 enlarge | Creators: Ernest Blanc, Robert Massard, Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, Walter Berry, Jose Van Dam, Georges Bizet, Alfredo Catalani, Francesco Cilea, Leo Delibes, Antonin Dvorak, Friedrich Von Flotow, Umberto Giordano, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini
Label: Angel Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy Used: $3.47
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 16529
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.5 x 0.5
MPN: 42203
UPC: 724384220327
EAN: 0724384220327
ASIN: B0000084JD
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 2 cds and case. no artwork, ex library. CDs has some scratches.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Liviamo ne'lieti calici | | • | Largo al factotum | | • | Che gelida manina | | • | Mi chiamano Mimi | | • | Suzel, bon di | | • | Va, pensiero | | • | La donna e mobile | | • | Viens, Mallika | | • | O mio bambino caro | | • | Recondita armonia | | • | Vissi d'arte | | • | E lucevan le stelle | | • | lo son l'umile ancella | | • | Au fond du temple saint | | • | Non piu andrai | | • | Voi, che satete | | • | Dove sono | | • | M'appari | | • | Mild und leise |
Disc 2
| • | Se quel guerrier io fossi!... | | • | Vedi! le fosche notturne | | • | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | | • | L'amour est un oiseau rebelle | | • | Votre toast | | • | La fleur que tu m'avais jetee | | • | Barcarolle | | • | A mamma morta | | • | Vesti la giubba | | • | Un bel di vedremo | | • | Soave sia il vento | | • | Chi il bel sogno di Doretta | | • | Der Vogelfaenger bin ich ja | | • | Der Hoelle Rache | | • | Song to the Moon | | • | Ebben? Ne andro lontana | | • | Pourquoi me reveiller? | | • | Signore, ascolta! | | • | Nessun dorma |
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| Customer Reviews:
Best Opera.... September 24, 2008
madavenna (Virginia, USA)
I'm not opera literate, so I was looking for some kind of introduction that had some familiar arias and that would connect me to others that I had not heard. I liked that the notes with the cd indicated where a new listener may have heard some of the music (in a commercial, during an important scene in a movie, etc). This was the source of a lot of 'Ah ha!' moments. It even inspired me to rent a dvd of a live version of Turandot and to put others on my Netflix queue. I owe my newly aroused curiosity about opera, believe it or not, to Il Divo. I had to know what these guys sing when they're not reinterpreting pop songs. I'm glad I started this journey and this cd was a good start.
Great product January 27, 2008
Patrick Threatt
This is a great product if the individual enjoys and appreciates classical music and especially the opera.
 Great for the amateur Opera listener August 25, 2007
Madame Butterfly (Seattle, WA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a long time armchair Opera listener I'm shocked that I hadn't come across this album until recently. I'm not really an Opera connoisseur so my review is based on just the fact that I love Opera, but mostly by listening to arias or occasionally going to the Opera.
This CD is quite comprehensive and offers a broad spectrum of aria's and some chorus's from several composers as well as the more famous of singers. In 2 CD's, 19 tracts each, many of the most famous arias are represented. If you are a Wagner fan you might be disappointed, however, Puccini, Mozart, Bizet, and Verdi are well represented. If you want a taste of Opera without sitting down and listening to a full Opera, this is perfect. My only complaint is that there is not enough Jose Carreras!
 Latter-day also-rans May 27, 2007
Erwin K. Krause (TX USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
There will always be arguments for this or that singer, but this title is absurd. I didn't see a single Jussi Bjoerling, George London, Leonard Warren, or Zinka Milanov, and only one mention of Del Monaco. These were singers. Bjoerling and London were in a class by themselves. I saw all of these folks live on stage. London and Del Monaco had stage presence you don't get now. Di Stefano, Kirsten, de los Angeles should be on any best list. Play any tenor aria by any tenor; then play Bjoerling's. Play any bass/baritone aria by any singer; then play London's. Jussi and George will knock your socks off. They sang everything in every language. Tebaldi and Pavarotti sang only Italian, much easier.
A well-sung compilation September 15, 2003
Jose Antonio Ponce Mendez (New York, NY USA)
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Compilations usually receive negative feedback from experienced opera listeners. However, this compilation by no means should be only welcomed by opera listeners, it should be welcomed by all music listeners. This CD is a great one to own for a first time opera listener. Also, for the person who wants to listen to opera once in a while and who does not want to buy a myriad of CD's in order to have the same amount of arias as this CD has. Eighty-percent of the singers are high-quality singers in this CD and the orchestras along with their respective conductors, do justice to the songs. All of the arias in this CD are what we in the field call, standard repertoire, and therefore are a good source for a beginning musician to help him or her listen to phrasing, colour, dynamics, language etc. I certainly recommend it, without a doubt.
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