Renee Fleming - Verismo
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Artist: Renee FlemingComposer: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Composer: Alfredo Catalani
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer: Riccardo Zandonai
Composer: Umberto Giordano
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Performer: Jonas Kaufmann
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-15
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Puccini - Senza Mamma
- Mascagni - Un di ero piccina
- Puccini - Ore dolci e divine
- Mascagni - Ah, il suo nome... Flammen perdonami
- Catalani - Ne mai dunque avro pace...Ohime!
- Puccini - Si mi chiamo Mimi
- Leoncavallo - Musette svaria sulla vocca viva
- Leoncavallo - Mimi Pinson la biondinetta
- Puccini - Addio... Donde lieta"
- Leoncavallo - Angioletto, il tuo nome?
- Puccini - Sola perduta, abandonata
- Zandonai - Ier della Fabbrica
- Cilea - O mia cun fiorita from Gloria
- Giordano - Tutto tramonta
- Puccini - Tu che di gel cinta
- Giordano - Nel so amore from Siberia
- Puccini - Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso
Free Music Notes for Verismo
Free Music Review: Another impressive recital album
Hit: 5 Stars
You will already know if you like Renée Fleming's voice and are a fan. If so, there are no real surprises here: she is singing repertoire ideally suited to her gifts - a little jazzy sliding and smoky shading does no harm at all in verismo - and all her vocal virtues are very much in evidence. The voice is still in its prime, and if the top notes are not exactly easy they are still very much there. The famous sumptuous tone gratefully plumps out these dramatic arias but Fleming also enlivens them by her concern to colour phrases and inject emotion rather than just make a beautiful noise. If, on the other hand, you are not a fan, please leave alone those of us who are and allow us to enjoy this disc; don't snap at out heels with bitchy comments and spiteful little no-votes, but return instead to those singers you like. This is an artist who has brought pleasure to millions over the last twenty years; lyric sopranos with her fullness and depth of tone are rare. She has been very careful how she has eased into a somewhat heavier Fach; I do not envisage her going much further along this route and expect that she will stop with certain of the middlingly heavy Puccini rôles, perhaps Elisabetta in "Don Carlo" and maybe even the "lightest" Wagner rôles such as Elsa in "Lohengrin".
This recital is a judicious mix of a few favorites and mostly slightly more recherché verismo arias and ensemble excerpts. I for one could have done without yet another artist giving us her version of "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì" but it's central to the repertoire, I suppose. Otherwise, it's good to hear comparative rarities such as the arias from the lesser-known operas of Giordano, Cilea, Mascagni and Zandonai and perhaps Fleming's advocacy will help boost the chances of the odd revival which such music merits. The accompaniment provided by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano directed by Marco Armiliato is rather anodyne and over-respectful of the great soprano; "unobtrusive" is perhaps the better word. I like the increasing tendency of late in recital discs to provied supporting singers such that excerpts from complete operas are not clumsily doctored, kippered or re-arranged; the ensemble pieces from "La Rondine" and Leoncavallo's "La Bohème" provide particular pleasure. Some might find the scene from the latter's "Zazà" a little saccharine, but a certain sentimentality is inherent in this genre; if you don't enjoy the pathos of Suor Angelica's lament over her lost baby boy and the plight of suffering ladies in general, you probably cannot stomach verismo opera in any case.
A guest appearance from Jonas Kaufmann in the last ensemble from "La Rondine" is a bonus. There is much great singing here; Fleming's fans need not hesitate.
Verismo Poster
Renée Fleming sings opera arias by Puccini and his contemporaries. Celebrating the composers of the Verismo style. Favorite Puccini arias from La Bohème, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, Il Trittico etc.Rarely heard arias by other Verismo composers. World Premiere recording of the original manuscript version of the aria from Puccini s Manon Lescaut. Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann joins Renée Fleming for an irresistible melody from Act II of Puccini s La Rondine.
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