MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Roberto Alagna - The Christmas Album
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Roberto Alagna - The Christmas Album
Roberto Alagna (tenor) / The London Symphony, Robin Smith
[ EMI Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 June 2000
Christmas music from the great tenor, Roberto Alagna
Roberto Alagna was born in France of Sicilian parents. Following musical studies in Paris he won first prize in the 1988 Luciano Pavarotti International Competition in Philadelphia, USA, and made his stage debut as Alfredo in La Traviata with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, in the same year. As a result, he was immediately engaged for that role by several major opera houses, and it was in a new production of La Traviata that he made an outstanding debut at La Scala in April 1990.
Rodolfo from La Bohème has also been a major role for Alagna which he has played for The Monte Carlo Opera, La Scala and the Liceo in Barcelona, and he made his debut as Rodolfo at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in April 1992 and at the Metropolitan Opera House. Since then, Alagna has gone on to appear in the most prestigious international opera houses in Verdi's Rigoletto, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor and Roberto Devereux, Gounod's Faust and Roméo et Juliette, Bizet's Carmen and Puccini's La Rondine.
The remarkable critical acclaim received by Roberto Alagna following his performances as Roméo at Covent Garden in November 1994 (in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette) confirmed his status as the finest lyric tenor of his generation.
NOTE: Booklet has some small pen markings
Tracks:
[1] Gentil Père Noël [02:32]
John Francis Wade / Reading / Oakley / Roberto Alagna / Robin Smith
[2] Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) [02:25]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[3] Christmas Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas / We Three Kings / I Saw Three Ships / In ducli jubilo [03:40]
Henri Martinet / Raymond Vincy
[4] Petit Papa Noël [04:23]
Joseph Mohr / Franz Gruber / Robin Smith
[5] Douce Nuit (Silent Night / Stille Nacht) [04:32]
Kiriac / Roberto Alagna
[6] O! Ce veste minunata! [02:54]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[7] Il est né le divin enfant [02:56]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[8] Away in a Manger [02:39]
Franz Schubert / Robin Smith / Jeff Jarratt
[9] Ave Maria [04:54]
James Pierpont / Robin Smith / Traditional / Mitchell Parish
[10] Sleigh Ride Medley: Jingle Bells / Deck the Hall / Sleigh Ride [02:54]
Adolphe Adam / Robin Smith
[11] Minuit, chrétiens! ( Cantique de Noël ) ( O Holy Night ) [04:29]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[12] O Christmas Tree / O Tannenbaum [02:44]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[13] The First Nowell [03:27]
Russ Ballard / Chris Winter / Robin Smith / Chris Winter
[14] The Love of a Child [04:08]
Gerd Beilenson / Harpo Marx
[15] Guardian Angels [00:44]
Franz Schubert / Alois Melichar / Edoardo Senatra / Robin Smith
[16] Mille Cherubini in Coro [03:09]
Traditional / Robin Smith
[17] God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen [02:46]
Irving Berlin
[18] White Christmas [02:46]
Philip Dukes viola*
