Ben Heppner - Great Tenor Arias
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Performer: Giacomo MeyerbeerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-08-15
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- La Boheme: Musetta! O gioia della mia dimora!....Testa adorata
- La forza del destino: Oh! fede negar potessi... Quando le sere al placido
- La forza del destino: La vita e inferno all'infelice... Oh, tu che in seno agl'angeli
- Aida: Se quel guerrier io fossi!... Celeste Aida
- Il Trovatore: Ah si, ben mio
- Il Trovatore: Di quella pira
- Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai simili a questa!
- Turandot: Nessun dorma
- La Fanciulla del West: Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano
- Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetee
- L'Africaine: Pays merveilleux... O Paradis
- Herodiade: Ne pouvant reprimer... Adieu donc, vains objets
- Le Cid: Ah! tout est bien fini... O souverain, o juge, o pere
- Andrea Chenier: Come un bel di di maggio
- Andrea Chenier: Colpito qui m'avete ov'io geloso... Un di all'azzurro spazio
Free Music Notes for Ben Heppner - Great Tenor Arias
Free Music Review: Bigger is better---not!
Hit: 4 Stars
True--Shades of Corelli and del Monaco. For some this is good, those who prefer their music loud, louder, and loudest. But, as Ira Gershwin said, "It Ain't Necessarily So." I prefer to hear more nuances in a singer's volume output.
That is why I was glad to get to "Donna non vidi mai," and hear Heppner sing softly. For this reason, I find "O Paradis" the best track on the disk.
Overall, this is a very good recording, but not as great as it could be.
Ben Heppner - Great Tenor Arias Poster
Not since the days of Lauritz Melchior have we had a true heldentenor, a singer who can take on the big Wagnerian parts and the other roles that require a voice of real weight and heft. The Canadian tenor Ben Heppner is the closest we come these days, but he is both less and more than that--less because he has so far not attempted the bigger Wagnerian roles, more because (unlike most such tenors, and as demonstrated on this disc) he has successfully mastered the idiom of French and Italian operas. He has a big voice, flexible and even, capable of a good legato line when needed (e.g., in nicely sung performances of "Ah si, ben mio" from Verdi's Il Trovatore and "O Paradis" from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine). But while his brilliant sound and dramatic intensity make him often thrilling to hear, there is also a sense of effort and a lack of charm in his singing that can put a listener off, and RCA has done him no favors with their rather distant miking. Still, he is an exciting singer, and this is a recommended disc. --Alex MorinClassical Music CDs
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