French Arias

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His relatively light, clear tenor voice with a hint of bravura suits the livelier pieces well. In Donizetti’s Ah! Mes amis!’ for example, both he and the orchestra easily negotiate the mercurial... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Jan 2020
Catalogue No: SU42602
Label: Supraphon

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Massenet: O Nature, pleine de grace (from Werther)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Offenbach: Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Gounod: L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Gounod: De grâce demeurez… Ange adorable (Roméo et Juliette)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Donizetti: Pour me rapprocher de Marie (from La Fille du régiment)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Donizetti: Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête! (from La Fille du Régiment)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Bizet: Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Berlioz: O blonde Cérès (from Les Troyens)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Delibes: Prendre le dessin d'un bijou…Fantaisie, ô divin mensonge (from Lakmé)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Gounod: Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Massenet: Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

Lalo: Puisqu'on ne peut flêchir (from Le roi d’Ys)

Petr Nekoranec (tenor)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Franklin

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His star has to date blazed the brightest in January 2017, when, at the age of 25, Petr Nekoranec won the prestigious Concurso Francesco Virias at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where he also received the coveted Placido Domingo Prize. Two years of studies in New York within the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program expanded his experience from the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, preparing him for conquering the world of grand opera. The present Nekoranec album, featuring French arias, and made with the Czech Philharmonic and the seasoned conductor Christopher Franklin, serves as yet more proof that he is a singer of extraordinary talent. Owing to his light, highly flexible tenor, Petr safely masters even the most challenging virtuoso coloraturas of the Italian repertoire, while his infallible musical intuition has naturally led him to French opera, harbouring a plethora of profound and delicate emotions (Nadira's aria 'Je crois entendre encore' from Bizet's 'Les pecheurs de perles'), amorous feelings, as well as wild merriment. Petr Nekoranec has succeeded in conveying all the nuances with a remarkable airiness, simplicity and plausibility. As if there were nothing as easy as singing...'Ah! Mes amis, quel jour de fête!'

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April 2020

His relatively light, clear tenor voice with a hint of bravura suits the livelier pieces well. In Donizetti’s Ah! Mes amis!’ for example, both he and the orchestra easily negotiate the mercurial changes of phrasing and he makes short shrift of the nine top Cs. The more languorous pieces fare slightly less well…that said, he produces something magical in Bizet’s ‘Je crois entendre encore’ where he performs with remarkable tenderness and subtle phrasing.

August 2020

This Supraphon recital CD proves a most gratifying surprise. It’s intended as the wider-world introduction to the Czech tenor Petr Nekoranec; what it adds up to is a genuinely rewarding artistic achievement on many linked fronts...one warms not just to the sound of the voice, almost entirely unforced in its charm, gentle grace and evenness of texture but to the combination of artistic responsiveness and technical security.

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