Sonya Yoncheva, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana – Paris, mon amour (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:37 minutes | 887 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is a rising star in the opera world. First prize-winner at Placido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2010, she made her Met Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, garnering praise from The New York Times: “She brought lovely stage presence and a sumptuous, penetrating voice to her performance. Ms. Yoncheva has such vocal glamour.”
Her debut album, Paris, mon amour, focuses on music of 19th-century Paris as an homage to the Belle Époque era, with arias from of the most beautiful operas set in Paris or by French composers.
Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Vincerò! (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:54 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: Classical
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Global star tenor Piotr Beczala presents Vincerò!, the first fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE. Vincerò! is a collection of heart-wrenching opera arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea. For Beczala, this recording documents his vocal transition from the lyrical tenor repertoire to the more dramatic roles of Verismo, and thus simultaneously marks a significant new chapter in his stage career. Beczala is accompanied by the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, led by maestro Marco Boemi; an extraordinary singers conductor who has worked with the greatest vocalists of our age. Piotr Beczala has the kind of voice you want to hang medals on. Its luminosity makes many of his fellow lyric tenors, past and present, sound by comparison like flickering candlewicks. Beczalas clarity and cleanliness of tone are the essence of his appeal. (Opera News Awards, 2015)
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Ana María Martínez, Andrea Bocelli, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana, Plácido Domingo – Puccini: Manon Lescaut – Dramma lirico in quattro atti (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:26 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Ana María Martínez, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana and conductor Plácido Domingo is the dark story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death. Manon calls for dramatic, forceful performances and gets the full treatment here in this new studio recording.
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.
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