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Cover: Opera Gala – Famous arias featuring · Karita Mattila · Elina Garanca · Soile Isokoski · Juha Uusitalo · Tommi Hakala · Jorma Hynninen

Opera Gala

Famous arias featuring

Karita Mattila · Elina Garanca · Soile Isokoski · Juha Uusitalo · Tommi Hakala · Jorma Hynninen

Soile Isokoski, soprano
Karita Mattila, soprano
Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Juha Uusitalo, bass-baritone
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Estonian Symphony Orchestra
Eri Klas, conductor
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Alexandrs Vilumanis, conductor

ODE 1139-2F · CD · October 2008

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Track listing

50 tracks · 278:20

CD 1 - Jorma Hynninen

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

  1. 1 Si può? Signore! Signori! (Tonio), from: I Pagliacci 5:15

Giuseppe Verdi

  1. 2 Di Provenza il mar (Germont), from: La Traviata 4:29
  2. 3 Il balen del suo sorriso (Luna), from: Il Trovatore 3:15
  3. 4 Alzati! Là tuo figlio (Renato), from: Un ballo in maschera 6:06
  4. 5 Urna fatale (Carlo), from: La forza del destino 3:01
  5. 6 Cortigiani, vil razza (Rigoletto), from: Rigoletto 4:28
  6. 7 Per me giunto (Rodrigo), from: Don Carlo 3:50
  7. 8 Io morrò (Rodrigo), from: Don Carlo 3:39

Peter Tchaikovsky

  1. 9 Vi mnye pisali (Onegin), from: Eugene Onegin 4:44

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. 10 Hai già vinta la causa! (Almaviva), from: Le nozze di Figaro 4:58
  2. 11 Deh per questo istante, from: La Clemenza di Tito 2:10
  3. 12 Fin ch'han dal vino (Don Giovanni), from: Don Giovanni 1:27

CD 2 - Soile Isokoski

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. 1 Temerari... Come scoglio (Fiordiligi), from: Così fan tutte 5:48
  2. 2 Ei parte... Per pietà, ben mio (Fiordiligi), from: Così fan tutte 8:54
  3. 3 Bella mia fiamma, Concert aria K.528 9:34
  4. 4 Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide), from: Zaide 6:39
  5. 5 Ah, lo previdi, Concert aria K.272 12:57
  6. 6 E Susanna non vien!... Dove sono (Contessa), from: Le nozze di Figaro 6:35
  7. 7 Ch'io mi scordi di te?, Concert aria K.505 10:30

CD 3 - Tommi Hakala

Giuseppe Verdi

  1. 1 É sogno, o realta?, from: Falstaff 4:36
  2. 2 Son io, mio Carlo... Io morro, from: Don Carlo 8:42
  3. 3 Di Provenza il mar (Germont), from: La Traviata 4:41

Richard Wagner

  1. 4 Blick ich umher, from: Tannhäuser 5:04
  2. 5 Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande - O Du, mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram), from: Tannhäuser 4:53

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

  1. 6 E fra quest'ansie... E allor perchè, from: I Pagliacci 4:10

Giacomo Puccini

  1. 7 Questo amor, from: Edgar 3:07

Umberto Giordano

  1. 8 Nemico della patria, from: Andrea Chénier 4:47

Charles Gounod

  1. 9 O sainte médaille... Avant de quitter, from: Faust 4:06

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. 10 Hai già vinta la causa! (Almaviva), from: Le nozze di Figaro 4:36
  2. 11 Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, from: Così fan tutte 5:09

CD 4 - Elina Garanca

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. 1 Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio, from: Le Nozze di Figaro 2:46
  2. 2 Voi che sapete, from: Le Nozze di Figaro 2:49
  3. 3 Deh per questo istante, from: La Clemenza di Tito 6:17
  4. 4 Parto, parto, from: La Clemenza di Tito 6:16

Gioachino Rossini

  1. 5 Una voce poco fa, from: Il barbiere di Siviglia 6:13
  2. 6 Nacqui all'affanno, from: La Cenerentola 6:42

Vincenzo Bellini

  1. 7 Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio., from: I Capuleti e i Montecchi 6:56

Gaetano Donizetti

  1. 8 Per questa fiamma indomita., from: Anna Bolena 4:56

Jules Massenet

  1. 9 Werther, Werther, from: Werther 7:24

CD 5 - Juha Uusitalo - Karita Mattila

Richard Wagner

  1. 1 Overture, from: Der fliegende Holländer 11:40
  2. 2 Die Frist ist um (Holländer), from: Der fliegende Holländer 12:51
  3. 3 Ja, Wehe! Wehe! Weh' über mich! (Amfortas), from: Parsifal 8:03
  4. 4 Dich teure Halle, from: Tannhäuser 3:16

Antonín Dvorák

  1. 5 Měsíčku na nebi hlobokém, from: Rusalka 5:26

Giuseppe Verdi

  1. 6 Ritorna vincitor, from: Aida 6:29
  2. 7 Pace, pace mio Dio, from: La forza del destino 5:18

Giacomo Puccini

  1. 8 Vissi d'arte, from: Tosca 2:56

Johann Strauss II

  1. 9 Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein, from Die Fledermaus 2:45
  2. 10 Mein Herr Marquis, from: Die Fledermaus 3:15
  3. 11 Klänge der Heimat, from: Die Fledermaus 3:52

About this recording

Ideal as a gift: packaged in an elegant box, these 5 CDs feature six opera stars with nearly thirty famous arias:

  • Baritone Jorma Hynninen with recordings from the late 1980s, after he conquered the world's foremost opera houses and concert stages (ODE 731-2);
  • Lyric soprano Soile Isokoski with her famous 2004 recording of Mozart arias, which led The Daily Telegraph to wonder, "Is there a finer Mozart singer today than Soile Isokoski?" (ODE 1043-2);
  • Acclaimed young baritone Tommi Hakala with his 2003 début recording, which he recorded shortly after winning the BBC 'Singer of the World' contest (ODE 1048-2);
  • Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca with her 2001 début recording, which Ondine released in order to launch the career of this international superstar of today (ODE 969-2);
  • Bass-baritone newcomer Juha Uusitalo, who joined Ondine's roster in 2008, with three extracts from his acclaimed Wagner album (ODE 1121-2);
  • Soprano Karita Mattila with a live captured recording from 2000, performing among other arias, 'Vissi d'arte' from Tosca in front of an excited audience of 11,000 people in Helsinki (complete album ODE 968-2).

Features

Boxed set of 5 CDs; booklet in English

The artists

Soile Isokoski

Soile Isokoski is recognized as one of the world's finest lyric sopranos. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she gave her début recital in Helsinki in 1986 and subsequently won a number of important international singing competitions. She made her début at the Finnish National Opera as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and has since delighted audiences and critics alike at opera houses in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Milan and Paris, at The Metropolitan Opera and at music festivals in Salzburg, Savonlinna, Edinburgh and Orange.

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Karita Mattila

Winner of the first 'Singer of the World' competition in Cardiff, Karita Mattila is recognised as much for the beauty and versatility of her lyric voice as for her extraordinary stage ability. Under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Sir Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen, she has sang in all the major opera houses and festivals of the world performing repertoire which encompasses Mozart, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Janácek. Her affinity with the dramatic side of opera has produced marvellous results when working with fine stage directors such as Luc Bondy who helped her to achieve a remarkable performance in his highly acclaimed Don Carlos, seen in Paris, London and at the Edinburgh Festival. Likewise, Lev Dodin in his productions of Elektra for the Salzburg Easter Festival and Pique Dame and Salome at the Opera Bastille, Peter Stein for his production of Simon Boccanegra in Salzburg, Robert Carsen in his production of Lohengrin at the Bastille and Jürgen Flimm for his Fidelio in New York.

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Elina Garanca

Elīna Garanča was born into a musical family in Riga, Latvia. In 1996 she entered the Latvian Academy of Music, and since 1998 she has studied with Irina Gavrilovici in Vienna and Virginia Zeani in the United States. She won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in 1999 and was a finalist in the 2001 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, after which Ondine released her début solo recording 'Arie Favorite'.

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