Roberto Alagna 60

Roberto Alagna 60

AP351 (Aparté, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (20 September 2024)

Playing time: 85'
Tracks: 20
Booklet pages: 39
℗ 2024 Aparté
© 2024 Aparté
Main country of recording: Austria
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Roberto Alagna 60 published on 2 September 2024

Roberto Alagna, tenor
Morphing Chamber Orchestra
Giorgio Croci, conductor

Giuseppe Verdi:

1 O inferno! ... Sento avvampar (Simon Boccanegra)

Charles Gounod:

2 Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Faust)

Adolphe Adam:

3 Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (Le postillon de Lonjumeau)

Friedrich von Flotow:

4 Ach, so fromm (Martha)

Richard Wagner:

5 In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten (Lohengrin)

6 Mein lieber Schwann (Lohengrin)

Stanisław Moniuszko:

7 Szumią jodły na gór szczycie (Halka)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

8 Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis (Eugene Onegin)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:

9 Les diamants chez nous sont innombrables (Sadko)

Charles Gounod:

10 Nymphes attentives (Polyeucte)

Ambroise Thomas:

11 Adieu, Mignon! (Mignon)

Giacomo Meyerbeer:

12 Plus blanche la blanche hermine (Les Huguenots)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi:

13 Ogni pena cchiù spietata (Lo frate'nnamorato)

Riccardo Drigo:

14 Sérénade (Les millions d'Arlequin)

Ruggero Leoncavallo:

15 Au clair de la lune (Sérénade française)

Vincenzo Di Chiara:

16 La Spagnola

Osmán Pérez Freire:

17 Ay, Ay, Ay

David and Federico Alagna:

18 L'Andalouse

Nicholas Brodszky:

19 Be My Love

Roberto Alagna:

20 Sognare

France's most famous tenor celebrates not only his sixtieth birthday, but also forty years of an exceptionally rich and varied career. For a man who started out singing in Parisian cabarets, went on to perform on the world's greatest stages, and already has an impressive number of recordings to his name, what could be more natural than to mark the occasion with a new recording, reflecting the richness and diversity that have shaped his unique career? A career spent off the beaten track, constantly regenerated, and showing an insatiable curiosity, a temperament, and an extraordinary vocal timbre. Opera, new works, rediscoveries, religious music, sacred songs, operetta, variety, musicals, traditional Sicilian and international songs ... exploring every genre, Roberto Alagna captivates audiences everywhere. Here, accompanied by the Morphing Chamber Orchestra under Giorgio Croci, he presents a programme that is very much in his own image: showing a contagious passion, an insatiable appetite for the exploration of different repertoires and styles, ranging from opera - French (Gounod, Massenet, Thomas, Adam), Italian and Neapolitan (Verdi, Leoncavallo, Pergolesi), German (Wagner, Flotow), Polish (Moniuszko) and Russian (Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov) - to Italian and French songs, English and South American crossover music.

Recorded in February 2024 at Casino Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria.