Booming Bass and Baritone - Best Loved Opera Arias

Booming Bass and Baritone - Best Loved Opera Arias

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For anyone new to opera, the first question is often: where to start? The 'Best Loved' series offers an easy answer to that question with a perfect introduction to the wonderful, varied world of operatic music. Highlighting some of the best-loved arias ever written, the series provides a convenient introduction to opera's extensive variety of sounds and styles. Opera can be defined as drama told through music and, at the height of it's popularity, conventions arose in which certain voice types came to share features of the characters they represented. This series presents the main vocal categories (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass) by dividing them across four albums. The 'Best Loved' Arias series aims to demonstrate why opera as an art form remains as relevant and entertaining today as it was at it's inception 400 years ago.



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  • Catalog Number: 8578191


  • UPC: 747313819171


  • Label: Naxos


  • Composer: Arrigo Boito, Charles-François Gounod, George Frideric Handel, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Conductor: Alexander Rahbari, Antonino Fogliani, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Gerard Schwarz, Jaap van Zweden, Julius Rudel, Lodovico Zocche, Michael Halász, Pinchas Steinberg, Renato Palumbo, Ville Matvejeff, Will Humburg


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Chamber Choir, Bratislava CSR Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian Festival Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, Orchestra Giovanile della Via Emilia, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi Brunensis, Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra


  • Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams, Carlo Colombara, Eduard Tumagian, Erich Knodt, Ivan Urbas, Jan Opalach, Kurt Rydl, Lado Ataneli, Lorenzo Regazzo, Matthias Goerne, Michele Pertusi, Renato Girolami, Samuel Ramey, Silvano Carroli, Soon-Won Kang