The Puccini Album
Great scenes from “Tosca” & “Manon Lescaut”

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Selection from “Tosca”
- “Recondita armonia” (Act 1 - Aria)
- “Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore” (Act 2 - Aria)
- “Mario! Mario! Mario!” (Act 1 from “Tosca”)
- “Non la sospiri la nostra casetta” (Act 1)
- “Qual occhio al mondo puo star” (Act 1)
- Andante sostenuto (Beginning of Act 3)
- “Io de’ sospiri” (Act 3)
- “Mario Cavaradossi?” - “A voi” (Act 3)
- “E lucevan le stelle” (Act 3)
- “O dolci mani” (Act 3)
- “Senti... l’ora e vicina” (Act 3)
- “Come e lunga l’attesta!” (Act 3)
- “Presto, su! Mario!” (Act 3)

Selections from “Manon Lescaut”
- Intermezzo (Act 3)
- “Tutta su me ti posa” (Act 4)
- “Vedi, vedi, son io che piango” (Act 4)
- “Sei tu che piangi?” (Act 4)
- “Sola perduta, abbandonata” (Act 4)
- “Fra le tue braccia, amore!” (Act 4)

Galina Gorchakova
Neil Shicoff
Lor is Bertolo
Alessandro Calamai
Vito Roberti
Pawel Janowski
Carlo Andrea Masciadri
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Seiji Ozawa

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“Galina Gorchakova’s Tosca at Covent Garden”
“Her soprano has a typically dark Russian soul, especially lower down, while the top is able to move into an altogether higher gear. Tosca’s testing two-octave drop from a top C in the third act let fly as confidently as one could hope to hear anywhere today...”
The Financial Times

On Galina Gorchakova’s debut in Madam Butterfly at the Met ..
“...as Butterfly’s tragic tale continued, the powerful, superbly controlled voice let loose throughout its range, and all the way up to the clarion, steely quality it attained at full volume. Gorchakova made an indelible impression...her portrayal served as reminder that Puccini wrote the part for a singer with lungs of steel, able to carry over a big orchestra..”
Opera Now

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