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Verdi - È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata)
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Natalie Dessay - Italian Opera Arias (Standard Version)
Natalie Dessay (Soprano), Sascha Reckert (glass harmonica), Karine Deshayes (Anna), Franck Ferrari (Enrico), Matthew Rose (Raimondo) & Wolfgang Klose (Normanno), Franck Ferrari (Riccardo) & Matthew Rose (Giorgio)
Concerto Köln & Europäischer Kammerchor, Evelino Pidò
Violetta's aria at the end of Act I of La traviata demands the impossible. A lyric voice for 'Ah forse è lui' and then weight and depth and cascading coloratura in 'Sempre libera'. Natalie... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, Opera Choice
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Hers is a full, fleshy soprano with a tone one might suggest has a slightly Nordic quality (her name implies a Scandinavian background). She possesses a good vocal range – less so, perhaps,... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal & Young Talent
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Special offer. I Vespri Verdiani
Olga Mykytenko (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
Here the size of voice is on the small side for some of the bigger roles: Amelia in Ballo and Leonora in Trovatore among them…There are decent accounts of tricky arias…but equally there are... —
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Joan Sutherland “La Stupenda”
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Nello Santi
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Inva Mula - Il Bel Sogno (Opera Arias)
Inva Mula (soprano)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivo Lipanovic
…is in the arias by Gounod that Mula really comes into her own. In the big scene from Mireille, in which the heroine is walking across the Crau desert, she impresses with her dramatic declamation... —
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Special offer. Virginia Zeani - Operatic Recital
Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 50
Virginia Zeani (soprano)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Franco Patané
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Nino Machaidze: Arias & Scenes
Nino Machaidze (soprano), with Les Paysans
Orchestre national de France, Daniele Gatti
Machaidze is already an exciting if slightly shrill young coloratura —
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Teresa Stich-Randall
Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien, Schönherr, Heiller, Richter
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Great Soprano Arias
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Laurence Dale (tenor), Renata Scotto (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Pritchard, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
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