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CHAN 3023
Multiple Set of 2 CDs
Verdi: La Traviata
Running Time: 118:24
Release Date: June 1999
Originally recorded in November 1980
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Solo soprano - Violetta Valéry
Valerie Masterson
Valerie Masterson
Solo tenor - Alfredo Germont
John Brecknock
John Brecknock
Solo baritone - Giorgio Germont
Christian du Plessis
Christian du Plessis
Mezzo Voice mezzo-soprano - Flora Bervoix
Della Jones
Della Jones
Solo baritone - Baron Douphol
John Gibbs
John Gibbs
Solo bass - Doctor Grenvil
Roderick Earle
Roderick Earle
Solo baritone - Marquis d'Obigny
Denis Dowling
Denis Dowling
Solo tenor - Viscount Gaston de Letorières
Geoffrey Pogson
Geoffrey Pogson
Solo mezzo-soprano - Annina
Shelagh Squires
Shelagh Squires
Solo tenor - Joseph
Edward Byles
Edward Byles
Solo baritone - A Passer-by
John Kitchiner
John Kitchiner
Orchestra
English National Opera Orchestra
English National Opera Orchestra
Conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir Charles Mackerras
Venue
Abbey Road Studio, London
Abbey Road Studio, London
Producer
John Fraser
John Fraser
Engineer
Stuart Eltham
Stuart Eltham
Genre:
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
Temporarily out of stock
Opera - La Traviata
GIUSEPPE VERDI
La traviata
118:32
The Fallen Woman
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Alexandre Dumas's La dame aux camélias
English translation by Edmund Tracey
COMPACT DISC ONE
1.
Prelude
4:03
Act I
2.
'What a time to arrive at a party!'
4:53
Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marquis, Gaston, Alfredo, Baron
3.
'Be happy, be happy and raise your glass with me'
3:02
Alfredo, Chorus, Violetta
4.
'What's that?'
2:18
5.
'I saw a vision ethereal'
3:10
Alfredo, Violetta
6.
'Ha, ha! What are you doing?'
1:19
Gaston, Violetta, Alfredo
7.
'We present ourselves before you'
1:43
Chorus
8.
'I wonder! I wonder!'
1:05
Violetta
9.
'Is he the one I dream about?'
2:48
10.
'It can't be! It can't be!'
0:57
11.
'Give me freedom to be happy'
3:30
Violeta, Alfredo
Act II
Scene 1
12.
'I'm never happy if she is not beside me'
1:53
Alfredo
13.
'My life was too impetuous'
2:02
14.
'Annina, where have you been?'
0:45
Alfredo, Annina
15.
'I hate myself! I'm so ashamed!'
1:38
Alfredo
16.
'Alfredo?' 'He has just set out for Paris'
3:46
Violetta, Annina, Joseph, Germont
17.
'I have a daughter sent from Heav'n'
1:42
Germont, Violetta
18.
'Do you realise I adore him'
2:15
19.
'A day will come when making love . . .'
2:52
20.
'Ah! Comfort your daughter so pure and lovely'
4:23
21.
'Then command me!'
1:20
22.
'I'll die! But you must promise me . . .'
3:43
23.
'God give me strength to bear it!'
1:46
Violetta, Annina
24.
'What's that?' 'Nothing'
2:17
Alfredo, Violetta
25.
'Ah, she is mine forever'
2:18
Alfredo, Joseph, A Passer-by, Germont
26.
'In Provence, your native land'
4:03
Germont
27.
'Won't you answer your father, Alfredo?'
0:47
Germont, Alfredo
28.
'No, no, I cannot preach at you'
1:54
68:15
COMPACT DISC TWO
Scene 2
1.
'The surprise is a band of dancing gipsies'
1:04
Flora, Marquis, Doctor, Chorus
2.
'We're gipsy fortune tellers'
2:51
Gipsies, Flora, Marquis, Chorus
3.
'We are heroes, in Spain they adore us'
2:40
Gaston, Matadors, Chorus
4.
'Alfredo! You!'
4:08
Chorus, Alfredo, Flora, Violetta, Baron, Gaston, Servant
5.
'I have asked him here to meet me'
2:29
Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus
6.
'All that she had she spent on me'
1:31
Alfredo, Chorus
7.
'Disgraceful conduct! How I despise you!'
1:49
Germont, Alfredo, Baron, Chorus
8.
'Alfredo, Alfredo, you hate and scorn me'
4:10
Violetta, Alfredo, Germont, Baron, Chorus
Act III
9.
Prelude
3:41
10.
'Annina?' 'Did you call me?'
5:04
Violetta, Annina, Doctor
11.
'You have kept your promise . . .'
1:50
Violetta
12.
'Forever I must leave thee . . .'
2:53
13.
'Hail to the carnival's four-footed master!'
0:51
Chorus of Revellers
14.
'Dear Madam -'
1:45
Annina, Violetta, Alfredo
15.
'Come, bid farewell to Paris forever'
4:12
Alfredo, Violetta
16.
'Ah, no more, Alfredo, let's go to church now'
1:21
17.
'But if my loved one cannot revive me'
2:18
18.
'Ah, Violetta!'
1:38
Germont, Violetta, Alfredo
19.
'Listen! I have a picture here'
0:51
20.
'I see a pure and lovely girl'
3:06
Violetta, Germont, Doctor, Annina, Alfredo
50:17
Solo: Valerie Masterson soprano - Violetta Valéry
Solo: John Brecknock tenor - Alfredo Germont
Solo: Christian du Plessis baritone - Giorgio Germont
Solo: John Gibbs baritone - Baron Douphol
Solo: Roderick Earle bass - Doctor Grenvil
Solo: Denis Dowling baritone - Marquis d'Obigny
Solo: Geoffrey Pogson tenor - Viscount Gaston de Letorières
Solo: Shelagh Squires mezzo-soprano - Annina
Solo: Edward Byles tenor - Joseph
Solo: John Kitchiner baritone - A Passer-by
Choral: English National Opera Chorus
Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
August, September and November 1980
