Puccini ≡ Passion

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Release Date: 16th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: MR301110
Label: Melba Recordings
Length: 63 minutes

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Puccini: Le villi, SC 60: "Se come voi piccina"

Work length4:29

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Puccini: Edgar, SC 62: "Addio mio dolce amor!"

Work length3:18

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Excerpt, Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Work length7:30

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

"In quelle trine morbide"

Track length2:28

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"Sola, perduta, abbandonata"

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Puccini: La bohème, SC 67

Work length10:13

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

"Mi chiamano Mimi"

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"Quando m'en vo"

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"Donde lieta"

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Puccini: Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Excerpt, Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Work length11:24

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

"Un bel di"

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"Che tua madre"

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"Con onor muore Tu?"

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Puccini: La rondine, SC 83

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

"Ch’il bel Sogno"

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"Ore dolci e divine"

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Puccini: Senza mamma, o bimbo (from Suor Angelica)

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Puccini: O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)

Work length2:14

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Puccini: Turandot, SC 91

Work length4:58

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

"Signore Ascolta"

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"Tu che di gel sei cinta"

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Puccini: E l'uccellino

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

Puccini: Sole e Amore

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Cheryl Barker
Orchestra Victoria
Richard Bonynge

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Cheryl Barker first broke the hearts of audiences worldwide as Mimì in Baz Luhrman’s imaginative production of La bohème. In Puccini ≡ Passion the radiant Australian soprano delivers beguiling performances in a panoply of Puccini’s heroines in favourite arias, accompanied by the State Orchestra of Victoria under the baton of Richard Bonynge.

Opera expert Rodney Milnes comments in the booklet: “Puccini famously liked to write about "little women", but he gave them "big" music, which is one thing that makes Cheryl Barker so ideal an interpreter of his soprano roles ... her lyric soprano, with an indefinably sweet vibrancy built in to the tone, adds immeasurably to her appeal. With that vibrancy comes a sense of vulnerability, which helps her bring the characters alive in both vocal and dramatic terms ... This most welcome disc allows her to present an overview of Puccini's women from the very beginning.”

Issued for the first time on SACD, this disc is for all lovers of Puccini, encompassing his most popular soprano arias from Manon Lescaut, Tosca, La bohème and Madama Butterfly, one of Barker’s favourite roles, as well as arias from Le Villi, Edgar, La rondine, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicci and Turandot. Barker ends with two little known treasures, the folksong-like ‘E l’uccellino’, and ‘Sole e amore’, an 1888 song whose melody Puccini later re-used in La bohème. And in a departure from his usual repertoire Richard Bonynge brings fresh imagination and sparkle to Puccini’s masterful orchestral palette.

Cheryl Barker’s most recent CD, also for Melba and released in 2011, was Pure Diva (MR301129), a very personal tribute to her teacher and fellow Australian soprano, the great Dame Joan Hammond.

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