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Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has taken a classic path to the brink of stardom: she made a series of last-minute substitute appearances, at New York's Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere, and ended up stealing the show. She apparently got the attention of Sony Classical, for which this is her first recording. Yoncheva hasn't specialized in French opera thus far, but this is both a good choice for her singing voice, which has an agility that may have come from her Baroque opera training under conductor William Christie, and in terms of doing something unexpected: with a few exceptions these aren't operatic hits. Instead there are French Grand Opera selections, including those by lesser-known figures such as Charles Lecocq and André Messager, along with a few Italian arias from operas set in Paris (except for the one from Puccini's almost-unperformed Le villi, these are the hits from La Traviata and La bohème). Yoncheva has to have both power over long stretches and a certain dose of frail sentiment in the big French pieces, and she succeeds admirably. Another unexpectedly emerging star here is the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana under Frédéric Chaslin. A fine pick for anyone hoping to identify the next generation of opera stars, a striking number of whom seem likely to emerge from Eastern Europe.
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Hérodiade (Jules Massenet)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Jules Massenet, Composer - Paul Milliet, Librettist - Henri Grémont, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Le Villi (Giacomo Puccini)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Ferdinando Fontana (after Alphonse Karr), Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Sapho (Charles Gounod)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Charles Gounod, Composer - Emile Augier, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Le Cid (Jules Massenet)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Jules Massenet, Composer - Adolphe d'Ennery, Librettist - Edouard Blau, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Jacques Offenbach, Composer - Jules Barbier, Librettist - Michel Carré, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, Librettists
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Thaïs (Jules Massenet)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Etienne Dupuis, Baritone - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Jules Massenet, Composer - Louis Gallet, Librettist -
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Celso Albelo, Tenor - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Guiseppe Verdi, Composer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist -
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Madame Chrysanthème (André Messager)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - André Messager, Composer - Georges Hartmann, Librettist - André Alexandre, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Les Cent Vierges (Charles Lecocq)
Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana - Frédéric Chaslin, Conductor - Charles Lecocq, Composer - Clairville, Librettist - Henry-Charles Chivot, Librettist - Alfred Duru, Librettist
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Albumbeschreibung
Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has taken a classic path to the brink of stardom: she made a series of last-minute substitute appearances, at New York's Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere, and ended up stealing the show. She apparently got the attention of Sony Classical, for which this is her first recording. Yoncheva hasn't specialized in French opera thus far, but this is both a good choice for her singing voice, which has an agility that may have come from her Baroque opera training under conductor William Christie, and in terms of doing something unexpected: with a few exceptions these aren't operatic hits. Instead there are French Grand Opera selections, including those by lesser-known figures such as Charles Lecocq and André Messager, along with a few Italian arias from operas set in Paris (except for the one from Puccini's almost-unperformed Le villi, these are the hits from La Traviata and La bohème). Yoncheva has to have both power over long stretches and a certain dose of frail sentiment in the big French pieces, and she succeeds admirably. Another unexpectedly emerging star here is the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana under Frédéric Chaslin. A fine pick for anyone hoping to identify the next generation of opera stars, a striking number of whom seem likely to emerge from Eastern Europe.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:30
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Sonya Yoncheva
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Klassiek Opera Operafragmenten
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
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