Opera
Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of former guests discussing their love of opera, including Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Miller, Anthony Minghella and Stephen Fry.
Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of former Private Passions guests talking about a particular opera they love. Artist Quentin Blake chose a duet between hero and villain from Act II of Verdi's 'Otello'; Joanna Lumley talks about the great quartet from Beethoven's 'Fidelio'; Scottish writer Janice Galloway says how she finds great satisfaction in seeing the rake Don Giovanni dispatched to Hell at the end of Mozart's opera; Jonathan Miller remembers the alarm he felt as a young and inexperienced opera director faced with putting singing animals on the stage in Janacek's 'The Cunning Little Vixen'; director Anthony Minghella chooses Cavaradossi's pre-execution aria 'E lucevan le stelle' from Puccini's 'Tosca'; children's writer David Almond loves the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridice as imagined by Monteverdi; actress Maureen Lipman has a particular affection for the voice of Maria Callas in a brilliant coloratura aria from Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville', and Stephen Fry waxes lyrical over the tumultuous ending of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Era la notte鈥i, pel ciel (from Otello, Act II)
Performers: Placido Domingo (Otello), Sherrill Milnes (Iago), National PO/James Levine
- VERDI Otello.
- RCA 74321 39501 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Mir ist so wunderbar (Quartet from Act 1, scene 4 of Fidelio)
Performers: Gwyneth Jones (Leonore), Edith Mathis (Marzelline), Peter Schreier (Jacquino), Franz Crass (Rocco) Dresden Staatskapelle/Karl B枚hm
- BEETHOVEN Fidelio.
- LP: DG 2720-009.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco (from Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene V, Finale)
Performers: Gottlob Frick (Commendatore), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Eberhard W盲chter (Don Giovanni), Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
- MOZART Don Giovanni.
- EMI 556232-2.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Introduction to The Cunning Little Vixen
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Mackerras
- JANACEK The Cunning Little Vixen.
- Decca 417130-2.
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Giacomo Puccini
E lucevan le stelle (Tosca, Act II)
Performers: Placido Domingo (Cavaradossi), Philharmonia/James Levine
- PUCCINI Tosca.
- EMI CDZ 762 520 22.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Possente Spirto (L'Orfeo Act III)
Performers: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Orfeo), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
- MONTEVERDI L鈥橭rfeo.
- ARCHIV 419 250-2.
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Gioachino Rossini
Una voce poco fa (from The Barber of Seville)
Performers: Maria Callas (Rosina), Philharmonia Orchestra/Tullio Serafin
- Diva.
- EMI CDEMTVD113.
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Richard Wagner - Isoldes Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde, Act III, Scene 3)
Performers: Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde), Philharmonia Orchestra/Wilhelm Furtw盲ngler
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