Artist.......: Roberto Alagna
Album........: Roberto Alagna chante Luis Mariano
Label........: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Genre........: Chanson
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: CDDA
Rip.date.....: Jul-31-2006
Str.date.....: May-09-2006
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. andalousie (bonus) 02:44
02. maman la plus belle du monde (bonus) 03:26
03. acapulco (bonus) 03:31
Runtime 09:41 min
Size 14,3 MB
Release Notes:
Digipack contains these 3 bonus tracks.
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Born in France of Sicilian parents, Roberto Alagna studied
music in Paris. He gained notoriety by winning first prize
in the 1988 Luciano Pavarotti Competition and soon made
his stage debut as Alfredo in La Traviata with the
Glyndebourne Touring Opera Company, soon to be followed by
debuts in Montpellier, Monte Carlo, and the Teatro alla
Scala in Milan (also in La Traviata). His Teatro alla
Scala debut came at the invitation of Riccardo Muti in a
fabled production with Tiziana Fabbricini which was
telecast. In 1990 he sang Rodolfo in Puccini's La BohΦme
-- a role that has become one of his most popular; it was
also the role of his Covent Garden Opera debut in 1992 and
his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1996. Another role which
was very important during the early part of his career was
the title role in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, which he has
sung with great success in Paris, London, and New York.
This role proved to be even more important for his
personal life, as he met his second wife, Angela
Gheorghiu, while they were performing this opera together.
His first wife had died after a lengthy illness, and this
new romance brought a renewed warmth and passion to his
performances. Their performances of L'elisir d'amore, La
BohΦme, and Werther are greatly admired, and together the
two have become one of opera's few genuine double
attractions. Alagna is known to introduce acrobatic tricks
into productions of L'Elisir d'amore which few other
tenors would attempt. His appearances in 1996 at the
Theatre-Chatelet Paris and Covent Garden Opera, London, as
Don Carlo in the original French version of Verdi's opera
has helped bring the French edition back to the fore.
Other operas which have proved successful for Alagna are
Rigoletto, Macbeth, Lucia di Lammermoor, Roberto Devereux,
L'amico Fritz, Carmen, and La Rondine.
Alagna is a self-taught tenor who learned his craft by
listening to recordings to pick up ideas and find those
that work for him. He usually mentions two of his
predecessors when asked whose recordings were most
influential; these are Beniamino Gigli and Nicolai Gedda.
He feels his voice is like Gedda's in its brightness and
timber. His recordings of La BohΦme on Decca and Romeo et
Juliette on EMI display some attempts at the vocal
refinements which characterized Gedda's singing. Alagna's
willingness to step beyond the standard score is displayed
in the use of an alternative version of "Una furtiva
lßgrima" in his London recording of L'Elisir d'amore,
using the new critical edition of La BohΦme in the Decca
recording with Chailly, as well as singing the original
French version of Don Carlo. His voice is a very fine
lyric tenor with a bright and ringing upper register, but
when it is put under pressure it tends to turn harsh. With
the assumption on stage and on recording of Verdi's Don
Carlo and both Werther and Manon of Massenet, Alagna moved
into more dramatic roles, and in his recordings of the
early 2000s he moved easily around the heart of the
operatic repertory.
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