The #1 Opera Album | Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

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highly recommended

The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera Album. But that's no surprise, since Universal has some of the finest interpreters in its catalogue to draw from. This two-CD set (at the price of one), for example, brings together the likes of Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, and many more. Yet the other key to a successful compilation is canny anthologizing, and here again, you have a nice selection to give you a smattering of opera's heavyweights from the Italian, German, and French repertory (there's even a step outside the standard framework with an aria from Dvorák's lovely Rusalka). Ranging from 1959 to 1997, the choices from back catalogue will doubtless be the entry ticket for many into this grandest of the arts. --Sarah Chin

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The #1 Opera Album

21 Dec, 2007
The movements in this collection move Me as much as My very bowel. Hence, it might work for your too. Try it, you'll like it if you want to be moved to your very "soul".

Beautiful music...

I'm new to opera, but this CD has really beautiful music. I use it in my CD clock radio (Timex, that I purchased here also) to go to sleep to.

My favorite CD - really the best!

I heard this CD on a PBS pledge drive (it was a premium) and found myself loving every cut on it! I was in my car and just wanted to keep on driving and listening. This is by far my most-played CD - I've had to make it a weekend only listen to prevent getting burned out on it. HIGHLY recommend it. Even if you are unfamiliar with some of the pieces, you will quickly learn to love them. . . . I must end this review - I'm off to listen to the "flower duet" for the 100th time. . .

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Opera introduction for everyone

This ablum of the major arias from the leading composers of 18th and 19th century opera is a good introduction and review both for the beginner and frequent opera goer. The recording quality is excellent and includes the work of most major performers of the 20th century Only the arias from some of the Strauss operas are not represented in this album.

The best gift ever.

I purchased this CD as a birthday gift for my sister. Because I personally know nothing about opera, I didn't know how to buy a single opera for her, or even which one she would like if I did know how to get it. So I settled on this "sampler" style Cd, and she just loved it. This is the best of the best of all opera arias and performances. My sister plays it all the time, and I think it is actually one of her favorite CDs. If you have a friend or family member who loves opera but you don't know anything about it, I can't recommend this CD enough.

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Tracks
Carmen, opera: Prelude | La Traviata, opera: Brindisi | La bohème, opera: Che gelida manina | Lakmé, opera: Flower Duet | Fedora, opera: Amor ti vieta | Carmen, opera: Habanera | Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves | Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Dove sono | Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile | Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Bridal Chorus | Gianni Schicchi, opera: O mio babbino caro | Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Largo al factotum | La Wally, opera (dramma musicale) in 4 acts: Ebben?...Ne andro lontana | Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Humming Chorus | Carmen, opera: Flower Song | Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle | Tosca, opera: E lucevan le stelle | Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel di | Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: Au fond du temple saint | Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: The Ride Of The Valkyries | Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Voi che sapete | Pagliacci, opera: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba | La bohème, opera: O soave fanciulla | Il Trovatore, opera: Anvil Chorus | Manon Lescaut, opera: Donna non vidi mai | Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: La ci darem la mano | Mattinata ('L'aurora di bianco vestita'), song for voice & piano (or orchestra) | Faust, opera: Soldiers' Chorus | L'elisir d'amore, opera: Una furtiva lagrima | Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta! | Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Champagne Aria | Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Soave sia il vento | Il Trovatore, opera: Di quella pira | Tosca, opera: Vissi d'arte | Carmen, opera: Toreador song | Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Love Duet | Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Intermezzo | Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114): O silver moon | La bohème, opera: Si, mi chiamano Mimi | Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma

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