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Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Andrea Bocelli (Des Grieux), Ana María Martínez (Manon Lescaut), Matthew Pena (Edmondo), Javier Arrey (Lescaut)

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Plácido Domingo

Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Bocelli makes a lighter-than-usual, youthful-sounding Des Grieux. At his best he sings with broad phrasing and a natural Italianate colour and style...Martinez offers a class act as Manon, youthful,...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2015

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Andrea Bocelli (Des Grieux), Ana María Martínez (Manon Lescaut), Matthew Pena (Edmondo), Javier Arrey (Lescaut)

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Plácido Domingo

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Bocelli makes a lighter-than-usual, youthful-sounding Des Grieux. At his best he sings with broad phrasing and a natural Italianate colour and style...Martinez offers a class act as Manon, youthful,...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2015

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The story of the doomed heroine Manon Lescaut has inspired more than one composer, but is perhaps most passionately portrayed in Puccini’s opera, written just ten years after Massenet’s Manon.

A grim story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death, it calls for dramatic, forceful performance, and gets the full treatment here in this new studio recording starring Andrea Bocelli.

Now Bocelli brings the full weight of his emotionally charged personality to the tragic role of Puccini’s Des Grieux.

This album will be accompanied by a simultaneous release of Opera - The Ultimate Collection – a definitive collection of the best-loved arias from Andrea Bocelli.

  • Release date: 20th Oct 2014
  • Label: Decca
  • Catalogue number: 4787490
  • Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Work length1:58:10
  • Matthew Pena (tenor), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Javier Arrey (baritone), German Olvera (bass), Ana María Martínez (soprano), Maurizio Muraro (bass), David Astorga (tenor), Valentino Buzza (tenor), Francesco Salvadori (bass)
  • Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Coro de la Comunitat Valenciana
  • Plácido Domingo
  • Recorded: 2014-01-24
  • Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
"Ave, sera gentile"
Track length4:32
"L'amor?! L'amor?!"
Track length1:11
"Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde"
Track length1:10
"Ma bravo!"
Track length1:48
"Discendono, vediam!"
Track length2:10
"Cortese damigella"
Track length4:03
"Donna non vidi mai"
Track length2:21
"La tua ventura ci rassicura"
Track length6:32
"La tua Proserpina"
Track length2:09
"Vedete? Io son fedele"
Track length3:51
"Non c'è più vino?"
Track length3:06
"Cavalli pronti avete?"
Track length2:57
"Dispettosetto questo riccio!"
Track length5:22
"In quelle trine morbide"
Track length2:08
"Poiché tu vuoi saper?"
Track length2:55
"Che ceffi son costor?...Sulla vetta tu del monte"
Track length1:57
"Paga costor!"
Track length1:17
"Vi prego, signora (Minuetto) - L'ora, o Tirsi, è vaga e bella"
Track length8:15
"Oh, sarò la più bella!...Tu, tu, amore? Tu?"
Track length8:17
"Ah!...Affé, madamigella"
Track length1:44
"Ah! ah! Liberi!...Ah! Manon, mi tradisce"
Track length3:54
"Lescaut? Tu qui?"
Track length3:26
Intermezzo
Track length4:58
"Ansia eterna, crudel"
Track length4:43
"... e Kate ripose al Re"
Track length1:18
"Manon, disperato è il mio prego!"
Track length1:23
"All'armi! All'armi!"
Track length1:53
"Rosetta!...Eh! Che aria!"
Track length3:51
"Presto! In fila!"
Track length3:46
"Tutta su me ti posa"
Track length3:03
"Manon, senti amor mio...Vedi, son io che piango"
Track length2:10
"Sei tu che piangi?"
Track length4:12
"Sola perduta, abbandonata"
Track length4:57
"Fra le tue braccia, amore!"
Track length6:51

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March 2015

Bocelli makes a lighter-than-usual, youthful-sounding Des Grieux. At his best he sings with broad phrasing and a natural Italianate colour and style...Martinez offers a class act as Manon, youthful, spirited, with quickness of emotion alongside a hard-bitten streak.
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