Michael Spyres: A Fool for Love (Tenor Arias) | Delos DE3414

Michael Spyres: A Fool for Love (Tenor Arias)

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Label: Delos

Cat No: DE3414

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 31st October 2011

Contents

Works

Bizet, Georges

Les Pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
» A cette voix quel trouble... Je crois entendre encore

Cilea, Francesco

L'Arlesiana
» E la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico'

Donizetti, Gaetano

L'elisir d'amore
» Una furtiva lagrima
La Fille du regiment
» Ah, mes amis
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali

Lehar, Franz

Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles)
» Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You are my heart's delight) (Act 2)

Massenet, Jules

Werther
» Pourquoi me reveiller

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527
» Il mio tesoro

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme
» Che gelida manina (Your tiny hand is frozen) (Act 1)

Rossini, Gioachino

Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
» Cessa di piu resistere

Strauss, Richard

Der Rosenkavalier, op.59
» Di rigori armato il seno

Stravinsky, Igor

The Rake's Progress
» Here I stand... Since it is not by merit

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Eugene Onegin, op.24
» Kuda, kuda 'Lensky's Aria'

Verdi, Giuseppe

Rigoletto
» La donna e mobile (Act 3)

Artists

Michael Spyres (tenor)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

Works

Bizet, Georges

Les Pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
» A cette voix quel trouble... Je crois entendre encore

Cilea, Francesco

L'Arlesiana
» E la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico'

Donizetti, Gaetano

L'elisir d'amore
» Una furtiva lagrima
La Fille du regiment
» Ah, mes amis
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali

Lehar, Franz

Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles)
» Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You are my heart's delight) (Act 2)

Massenet, Jules

Werther
» Pourquoi me reveiller

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527
» Il mio tesoro

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme
» Che gelida manina (Your tiny hand is frozen) (Act 1)

Rossini, Gioachino

Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
» Cessa di piu resistere

Strauss, Richard

Der Rosenkavalier, op.59
» Di rigori armato il seno

Stravinsky, Igor

The Rake's Progress
» Here I stand... Since it is not by merit

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Eugene Onegin, op.24
» Kuda, kuda 'Lensky's Aria'

Verdi, Giuseppe

Rigoletto
» La donna e mobile (Act 3)

Artists

Michael Spyres (tenor)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Constantine Orbelian

About

You may well be hard-pressed to name a classic opera that lacks a love-story – or a tenor as the main romantic hero. Accordingly, emerging American tenor Michael Spyres has come up with a fresh and fascinating pretext for 'A Fool for Love': his new collection of tenor arias on Delos.

Michael has carefully selected thirteen mostly well-known arias by composers ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky, encompassing a staggering array of love-related circumstances and emotions. He then sequenced them so as to tell the love-story of a single romantic protagonist. The album’s booklet contains a two-act "plot synopsis", in which each segment of our hero’s story is indexed to the corresponding aria.

As Michael puts it in his booklet introduction, “What I seek to present to you in this album is a fanciful musical story of a typical war-torn couple, and their struggle to cope with the raptures and ravages of this intangible enigma called love.

Michael, a Missouri native, completed his studies at the Vienna Conservatory, and is already well-known to European audiences for his critically-acclaimed work in recital, oratorio and opera. He has appeared at such distinguished houses as Milan’s La Scala and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and worked with conductors like Ricardo Muti and John Eliot Gardner.

Blessed with a supremely versatile instrument, Michael has successfully performed the music of composers from Bach to Wagner, encompassing music of many periods and styles: Baroque, Classical, Bel Canto and Verismo. He has recorded Rossini’s La Gazzetta, Otello and Le Siège de Corinthe for Naxos.

Lehar's "Dein ist mein ganzes herz" is sung as an encore.

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