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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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Jules Massenet, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - PAUL MILLIET, Librettist - HENRI GREMONT, Librettist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Ferdinando Fontana, Librettist - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Charles Gounod, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Emile Augier, Librettist - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Jules Massenet, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Louis Gallet, Librettist - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Edouard Blau, Librettist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - D'Ennery, Lyricist - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Jacques Offenbach, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Jules Barbier, Librettist - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Lyricist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Lyricist - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Jules Massenet, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Louis Gallet, Librettist - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Etienne Dupuis, Baritone - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Celso Albelo, Tenor - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - ANDRE MESSAGER, Composer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Georges Hartmann, Librettist - André Alexandre, Librettist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Nicolas Bartholomée, Recording Engineer - Frederic Chaslin, Conductor - Charles lecocq, Composer - Christopher Alder, Producer - Sonya Yoncheva, Soprano, MainArtist - Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra - Henri Chivot, Lyricist - Louis Clairville, Lyricist - Henri-Alfred Duru, Lyricist - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
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
- Main artists: Sonya Yoncheva
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
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