Album
Gabriela Beňačková
Arias - Janáček, Dvořák, Smetana, Verdi, Puccini
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Catalogue Number: SU 3853-2
Published: 4th July 2005
Genre: Opera
Format: 1 CD
- Soprano Gabriela Beňačková is the most famous performer of Janáček's Jenufa and Káťa Kabanová in recent decades.
- Audiences in the greatest international opera houses from Japan to the USA have thrilled to her performances in these two roles.
- In the course of her successful singing career, her colourful lyric soprano has brought a wide range of opera characters to life.
- This selection of arias from the Czech and international repertoire demonstrates the breadth of her repertoire as well as her effortless control and convincing performance.
- This selection also features a rare performance by Beňačková in the only dramatic soprano
- Audiences in the greatest international opera houses from Japan to the USA have thrilled to her performances in these two roles.
- In the course of her successful singing career, her colourful lyric soprano has brought a wide range of opera characters to life.
- This selection of arias from the Czech and international repertoire demonstrates the breadth of her repertoire as well as her effortless control and convincing performance.
- This selection also features a rare performance by Beňačková in the only dramatic soprano
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza del destino. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 1. | Act 4 "Pace, pace, mio Dio" | 06:10 | |
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Giuseppe Verdi
Othello. The Opera in 4 Acts
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| 2. | Piangea cantando /4 Act/ (Piangea cantando) | 13:32 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
Tosca. Opera in 3 Acts
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| 3. | Act 2 "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" | 03:27 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
Madame Butterfly. Opera in 4 Acts
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| 4. | Act 2 "Tu? tu? Piccolo Iddio! Amore mio" | 04:14 | |
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Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut. Opera
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| 5. | Act 2 "L'ho abbandonato" | 02:55 | |
| 6. | Act 4 "Sola, perduta, abbandonata" - monologue | 05:12 | |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pique Dame (Queen of Spades), Op. 68
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| 7. | Už polnoč blizitsja (Už polnoč blizitsja) | 06:14 | |
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Bedřich Smetana
Libuše. Festival Opera in 3 Acts
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| 8. | Act 3 - Libuše's prophecy (with Six Pictures from Bohemia's History): O Gods almighty | 05:18 | |
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Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride. Opera in Three Acts
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| 9. | Act 3, Scene 6 "Oh, what a grief!" | 04:52 | |
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Antonín Dvořák
Rusalka. Opera in 3 Acts, Op. 114
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| 10. | Act 1 "O, moon high up in the deep, deep sky" | 05:12 | |
| 11. | Act 3 "Insensible water power" | 07:32 | |
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Leoš Janáček
Káťa Kabanova. Opera in 3 Acts
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| 12. | Act 3 - But death doesn' t come | 03:14 | |
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Leoš Janáček
Jenufa. Opera in 3 Acts
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| 13. | Act 2: Greetings to Thee, Queen | 02:35 | |
| 14. | Act 3, Scene 12: They've all left...Lewave as well! | 03:37 | |