Opera 2012

Adès: The Tempest: Overture Bellini: Ascolta! Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio...La tremenda ultrice spada (from I Capuleti) Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Britten: Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray (from Billy Budd) Nathan Gunn (baritone) Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Rolando Villazon (tenor) Pour ce contrat fatal...Salut à la France (from La fille du régiment) Natalie Dessay (soprano) Gounod: Il était un roi de Thule (from Faust) Inva Mula (soprano) Handel: Ariodante : Overture Alan Curtis Scherza, infida (from Ariodante) Joyce diDonato (mezzo) Venti turbini (Rinaldo) David Daniels (countertenor) Massenet: Suis-je gentille ainsi? ... Je marche sur tous les chemins ... Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (from Manon) Natalie Dessay (soprano) Mozart: Fin ch'han dal vino (from Don Giovanni) Peter Mattei (baritone) Mi tradì quell'alma ingrate (from Don Giovanni) Veronique Gens (soprano) Soave sia il vento (from Così fan tutte) Thomas Allen (baritone) Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (from La Clemenza di Tito) Elina Garanca (mezzo) Offenbach: Les oiseaux dans la charmille (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Natalie Dessay (soprano) Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor) Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) Liping Zhang (soprano) Rossini: Guillaume Tell Overture Antonio Pappano Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Diana Damrau (soprano) Nacqui all'affanno, al pianto...Non più mesta (from La Cenerentola) Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Verdi: È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Natalie Dessay (soprano) Ella mi fu rapita! (from Rigoletto) Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) Vivaldi: Recordati che sei (from Farnace) Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) Wagner: Ewig war ich (from Siegfried) Deborah Voigt (soprano)

Following the enormous success of the album OPERA 2011, Virgin Classics releases OPERA 2012. With 40 tracks, and over 2 hours of operatic arias and duets, this double album features the best and most popular names in opera from the catalogs of both Virgin Classics and EMI Classics. This is a can't-miss collection of the best in opera that will have a wide appeal. This set features present day superstars like Natalie Dessay and Angela Gheorghiu as well as rising new artists such as Joyce DiDonato and Vittorio Grigolo. The set also contains tracks by some of the world's greatest conductors such as Antonio Pappano and Sir Roger Norrington.

Price: $17.98