Roger Waters - ?a Ira
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Artist: Roger WatersEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Gathering Storm
- Overture
- A Garden In Vienna 1765
- 'Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine...'
- Kings, Sticks And Birds
- 'Honest Bird, Simple Bird...'
- 'I Want To Be King...'
- 'Let Us Break All The Shields...'
- The Grievences Of People
- France In Disarray
- 'To Laugh Is To Know How To Live...'
- 'Slavers, Landlords, Bigots At Your Door...'
- The Fall Of The Bastille
- 'To Freeze In The Dead Of Night...'
- 'So To The Streets In The Pouring Rain...'
- Dances And Marches
- 'Now Hear Ye!...'
- 'Flushed With Wine...'
- The Letter
- 'My Dear Cousin Bourbon Of Spain...'
- 'The Ship Of State Is All At Sea...'
- Silver, Sugar And Indigo
- 'To The Windward Isles...'
- The Papal Edict
- 'In Paris There's A Rumble Under The Ground...'
- The Fugitive King
- 'But The Marquis Of Boulli Has A Trump Card Up His Sleeve...'
- 'To Take Your Hat off...'
- 'The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade...'
- The Commune De Paris
- 'Vive La Commune De Paris...'
- 'The National Assembly Is Confused...'
- The Execution Of Louis Capet
- 'Adieu Louis For You It's Over...'
- Marie Antoinette - The Last Night On Earth
- 'Adieu My Good And Tender Sister...'
- Liberty
- 'And In The Bushes Where They Survive...'
Free Music Notes for ?a Ira
Free Music Review: Worth the investment
Hit: 5 Stars
A must for any Roger Waters fan. There is also a very good DVD inside that shows the making of the opera. Roger Waters as you have never seen him before.
?a Ira Poster
Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to see that he's written what he calls as an opera. But don't be fooled: Waters's work has little to do with contemporary operas by the likes of John Adams or John Corigliano--even if the latter's 1991 The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, just as Waters's ?a Ira takes place during the French queen's last years, as the French Revolution unfurls. Based on a clunky libretto by Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, the show could have been a successful musical theater-?opera hybrid in the vein of Sweeney Todd but it falls closer to Andrew Lloyd Webber's historical pageants, without their recognizable melodies. Thankfully the cast holds the material aloft, especially Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (no stranger to the world of musical theater, as shown on albums such as his tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Chinese soprano Ying Huang. Note that this version comes as a double SACD set that includes a making-of DVD and a 60-page booklet. --Elisabeth VincentelliMore Stage Shows from Rock Artists
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Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to see that he's written what he calls as an opera. But don't be fooled: Waters's work has little to do with contemporary operas by the likes of John Adams or John Corigliano--even if the latter's 1991 The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, just as Waters's ?a Ira takes place during the French queen's last years, as the French Revolution unfurls. Based on a clunky libretto by Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, the show could have been a successful musical theater-?opera hybrid in the vein of Sweeney Todd but it falls closer to Andrew Lloyd Webber's historical pageants, without their recognizable melodies. Thankfully the cast holds the material aloft, especially Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (no stranger to the world of musical theater, as shown on albums such as his tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Chinese soprano Ying Huang. Note that this version comes as a double SACD set that includes a making-of DVD and a 60-page booklet. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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