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The Great American Voices audio CD provides an introduction to opera and musical theater, and will be distributed to audiences at Great American Voices performances and related educational outreach activities. Narrated by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, the CD features educational commentary interspersed with excerpts from some of the masterpieces of opera and Broadway. |
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Great American Voices Tracks
WELCOME
1. Dana Gioia, Chairman
National Endowment for the Arts
"Prelude" Carmen (Bizet)
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Rahbari, conductor
TYPES OF OPERATIC VOICE
2. "Habanera" Carmen (Bizet)
Graciela Alperyn, mezzo-soprano
3. "Largo al factotum" Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Roberto Servile, baritone
4. "Nessun dorma" Turandot (Puccini)
Lando Bartolini, tenor
5. "Vesti la giubba" Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Enrico Caruso, tenor
6. "O mio babbino caro" Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Tatiana Lisnic, soprano
7. "Dôme épais, le jasmine" Lakmé (Delibes)
Adriana Kohutkova, soprano
Denisa Slepkovska, mezzo-soprano
CHORUS IN OPERA
8. "Anvil Chorus" Il trovatore (Verdi)
Budapest Festival Chorus
CREATING IDENTITIES
9. "La donna è mobile" Rigoletto (Verdi)
Yordy Ramiro, tenor
10."Quando m'en vo' soletta" La bohème (Puccini)
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
A SINGER'S INSIDE VIEW
11."Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse!" Samson et Dalila
(Saint-Saëns) - Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
12. Interview with Denyce Graves
ORCHESTRA IN OPERA
13."Intermezzo" Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Rahbari, conductor
OPERA AND BROADWAY
14."Summertime" Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
Leontyne Price, soprano
15."Some Enchanted Evening" South Pacific
(Rodgers and Hammerstein), Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
16."Somewhere" West Side Story (Bernstein)
Michelle Prentice, soprano
Credits
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal
agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506 |
