Duets & Arias [Audio CD] Alagna, Roberto; Gheorghiu and Armstrong

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Amazon.caSince winning the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition, then in 1990 making his debut in La Traviata at the Monte Carlo Opera, Roberto Alagna has been acclaimed as the most outstanding tenor of his generation. Soprano Angela Gheorghiu was discovered the same year at the Bucharest Music Academy, and her recording of La Traviata won the 1996 Classic CD of the Year award. That same year the couple married and made their first album together, this collection of 14 duets and arias. There are ten duets, which each star having two solo arias. The music is mostly from the great romantic operas of the nineteenth century, the exception being the duet "Tonight" from Leonard Bernstein's marvellous Broadway musical West Side Story. Gheorghiu is heard solo performing "Depuis le jour", an elegy to remembered love from Charpentier's Louise, and Donizetti's "Al dolce guidami" from Anna Bolena, before uniting with Alagna for the same composer's "Tornami a dir" from Don Pasquale. Alagna is found solo in Massenet and Offenbach, while together the singers voices entwine to magical effect in duets by Mascagni, Berlioz, Puccini and others. With performances as enchanting as one could possibly wish for, this luxurious and immaculately produced anthology of passionately romantic music is delightful addition to any music collection. --Gary S. Dalkin

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