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Puccini love duets galore! That’s what the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and the tenor Roberto Alagna offer up here. Both are regulars on the world's greatest stages and their voices seem to have been tailor-made for this repertoire. The heroines - Mimì, Minnie, Tosca, Giorgetta, Butterfly and Manon - represent the absolute woman with a femininity that fascinates the composer, attracting him, inspiring him and making him fall in love. The male characters are undoubtedly a reflection of his own personality. Rodolfo, Mario and Calaf too, who is so besotted with Turandot that he risks his life for her: man, lover, seducer, villain, deceiver, poet, artist, knight or traitor... No doubt Roberto Alagna sees himself in these characters as well. Their traits are similar from one opera to the next, but Puccini knew how to make each vocal idiom wonderfully unique. © SM/Qobuz
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Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
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La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - Marco Praga, Librettist - Domenico Oliva, Librettist - Giulio Ricordi, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Il Tabarro (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Giuseppe Adami, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - Marco Praga, Librettist - Domenico Oliva, Librettist - Giulio Ricordi, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Giuseppe Adami, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
La Fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Guelfo Civinini, Librettist - Carlo Zangarini, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Il Tabarro (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Giuseppe Adami, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Giuseppe Adami, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
Roberto Alagna, Tenor - Aleksandra Kurzak, Soprano - Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia - Riccardo Frizza, Conductor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - (Nicolas Bartholomée, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer)
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Puccini love duets galore! That’s what the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and the tenor Roberto Alagna offer up here. Both are regulars on the world's greatest stages and their voices seem to have been tailor-made for this repertoire. The heroines - Mimì, Minnie, Tosca, Giorgetta, Butterfly and Manon - represent the absolute woman with a femininity that fascinates the composer, attracting him, inspiring him and making him fall in love. The male characters are undoubtedly a reflection of his own personality. Rodolfo, Mario and Calaf too, who is so besotted with Turandot that he risks his life for her: man, lover, seducer, villain, deceiver, poet, artist, knight or traitor... No doubt Roberto Alagna sees himself in these characters as well. Their traits are similar from one opera to the next, but Puccini knew how to make each vocal idiom wonderfully unique. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:48
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Roberto Alagna Aleksandra Kurzak
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical Opera Opera Extracts
(P) 2018 Sony Music Entertainment
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