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Joan Sutherland, ‘La Stupenda’, is sublime in some of her best-loved arias – ‘Les oiseaux dans la charmille’ from The Tales of Hoffmann, Verdi’s ‘Addio del passato’, Cilea’s ‘Io son l’umile ancella’ and Handel’s ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ – including many of the jewels of the bel canto repertoire that was her speciality. Luciano Pavarotti performs some of the great tenor arias, including ‘Vesti la giubba’ from Pagliacci, ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and ‘Recondita armonia’ from Tosca. Marilyn Horne shines in spectacular, passionate arias by Handel, Rossini and Meyerbeer, as well as the lush beauty of ‘Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix’ from Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila.
And Sutherland comes together with Pavarotti and Horne for duet performances shaped and perfected by their many years appearing alongside each other on stage and recordings: ‘Brindisi’ and ‘Parigi, o cara’ from La Traviata, ‘Prendi: l’anel ti dono’ from Bellini’s La Sonnambula, ‘Sulla tomba che rinserra’ from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, the Flower Duet (‘Sous le dôme épais’) from Lakmé and the Barcarolle (‘Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour’) from The Tales of Hoffmann.
This double DVD and double CD restores to the catalogue two landmark events, and performances never to be forgotten.
TRACKLISTING
DISC 1: Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti
1. BELLINI Sinfonia
from I Capuleti e i Montecchi *
2. VERDI Brindisi from La traviata (Duet)
3. PUCCINI Recondita armonia from Tosca (Pavarotti)
4. VERDI Addio, del passato
from La traviata (Sutherland)
5. VERDI La mia letiziainfondere
from I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Pavarotti)
6. BELLINI Qui la voce sua soave
from I Puritani (Sutherland)
7. BELLINI Prendi: l’anel ti dono
from La sonnambula (Duet)
8. CILEA Io son l’umile ancella
from Adriana Lecouvreur (Sutherland)
9. MASSENET Pourquoi me réveiller
from Werther (Pavarotti)
10. MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs
(Ladislav Jásek violin)*
11. THOMAS A vos jeux, mes amis...Pâle
et blonde from Hamlet (Sutherland)
12. LEONCAVALLO Vesti la giubba
from Pagliacci (Pavarotti)
13. DONIZETTI Sulla tomba che rinserra
from Lucia di Lammermoor (Duet)
14. DONIZETTI Una furtiva lagrima
from L’elisir d’amore (Pavarotti)
15. RICCI Io non sono più l’Annetta
from Crispino e la comare (Sutherland)
16. VERDI Parigi, o cara from La traviata (Duet)
DISC 2: Joan Sutherland & Marilyn Horne
1. HANDEL Overture from Radamisto *
2. HANDEL Iris, hence away from Semele (Horne)
3. HANDEL Tornami a vagheggiar
from Alcina (Sutherland)
4. ROSSINI Mura felici ove il mio ben s’aggira from La donna del lago (Horne)
5. ROSSINI Vorrei spiegarvi
from La cambiale di matrimonio (Sutherland)
6. ROSSINI Serbami ognor si fido
from Semiramide (Duet)
7. DELIBES Sous le dôme épais from Lakmé (Duet)
8. HÉROLD Overture from Zampa *
9. OFFENBACH Les oiseaux dans la charmillefrom The Tales of Hoffmann (Sutherland)
10. SAINT-SAËNS Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix from Samson et Dalila(Horne)
11. AUBER Non temete, milord
from Fra Diavolo (Sutherland)
12. MEYERBEER Non, non, non, vous n’avez jamais, je gage from Les Huguenots(Horne)
13. DONIZETTI Overture from Don Pasquale *
14. BELLINI Mira, o Norma from Norma (Duet)
15. BENEDICTThe Gypsy and the Bird (Sutherland) *
16. FOSTERBeautiful Dreamer (Horne) *
17. OFFENBACH Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Barcarolle) from The Tales of Hoffmann (Duet)
Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra
Richard Bonynge conductor
* DVD only