Insieme - Opera Duets
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / AMILCARE PONCHIELLI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Insieme - Opera Duets
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Ludovic Tezier (baritone) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, with Kristine Opolais
[ Sony / CD/Book ]
Release Date: Friday 7 October 2022
On stage they're usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: "Insieme", meaning "together" in Italian, to be released on Sony Classical. Accompanied by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, they present duets they've sung together on stage, plus works specially chosen for the album.
"Their voices fit like a glove here in the Don Carlos duet...Like Milnes and Domingo, they're quite close in timbre, so the bond of friendship seems especially strong. With one of the world's greatest Verdians, Antonio Pappano, pacing the music with his unerring sense of drama, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia coat these Verdi duets in luxury wrapping." (Gramophone)
"Whether as sworn foes in La Forza del Destino, devoted friends in Don Carlos or puppet and master in Otello, Kaufmann and Tézier give performances of total conviction and passion with Pappano and the Santa Cecilia orchestra empathetic enablers. Each duet evokes past productions or whets the appetite for future ones." Sunday Times
Tracks:
Puccini: In un Coupe?...O Mimi, tu piu non torni (from La Bohème)
Ponchielli: Enzo Grimaldo, Principe di Santafior! (from La Gioconda)
Verdi: Quel est ton nom? (from Les vêpres siciliennes)
Verdi: Sogno, o son desto? (from I Vespri Siciliani)
Verdi: Le voila! C'est l'infant! (from Don Carlos)
Verdi: Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino)
Verdi: Ne gustare m'e dato un'ora (from La forza del destino)
Verdi: Invano Alvaro ... Le minaccie, I fieri accenti (from La forza del destino)
Verdi: Era la notte (from Otello)
