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GREAT ARIAS – AMOURS DIVINS !
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ambroise Thomas and Jacques Offenbach
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Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ambroise Thomas and Jacques Offenbach
GREAT ARIAS – AMOURS DIVINS !

Soloists: 
José van Dam, Natalie Dessay,Thomas Hampson, Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yann Beuron, Paul Groves, Juliette Galstian, Rodney Gilfry, Deon van der Walt and Magdalena Kožená
Conductor: 
Marc Minkowski, Michel Plasson, Sir John Elliot Gardiner and William Christie

This collection of Famous Arias and Scenes, opera’s finest, most exciting moments, will dazzle opera lovers and newcomers alike. The Arias and Scenes are each presented and performed by the most renowned and acclaimed artists of the opera stage, such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, Eva Marton, Marilyn Horne, Angela Gheorghiu, Anna Netrebko, Christine Schäfer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Natalie Dessay, Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel, René Kollo, Philip Langridge, Yuri Marusin, Thomas Hampson and José Van Dam. Their performances are selected from live recordings of acclaimed productions of key works in the operatic repertoire, and each sequence is preceded by a short contextual introduction by the featured singer. Famous Arias and Scenes is both a visually exciting introduction for new viewers to opera and a unique opportunity to see great singers talking to camera and then performing roles for which they are famous. Collected here are Famous French Arias and Scenes. They feature works by Gluck, Offenbach and Thomas and singers like Jose van Dam, Nathalie Dessay, Thomas Hampson, Magdalena Kozena, Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter and others. Felicity Lott « Amours divins! » and « L’invocation à Venus » from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène. Felicity Lott and Yann Beuron « C’est la ciel qui m’envoi ce beau rêve amoureux » from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène. Anne Sofie von Otter « Divinités du Styx ! » / « Ah divinité implacable » from Gluck’s Alceste Paul Groves « Oh moment délicieux ! » and « Bannis la crainte et les alarmes » / « Vivre sans toi” and aria « Alceste au nom de dieux » from Gluck’s Alceste. Magdalena Kožená « Objet de mon amour » and « J’ai perdu mon Eurydice » from Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Thomas Hampson « Vains regrets ! / « J’ai pu frappe le miserable » / « Être ou ne pas être » from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. Natalie Dessay « Sa main depuis hier” and « Les Serments ont des ailes » / The Mad Scene from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. José van Dam « C’est en vain que j’ai cru me soustraire aux remords. » from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. Juliette Galstian « O toi qui prolonges mes jours » and « Je cède a vos désirs » / « O malheureuse Iphigénie » and « Je t’implore » from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Rodney Gilfry « Dieux! Qui me poursuives » and « Dieux ! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages ... » from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Deon van der Walt « Quel language accablant pour un ami » and « Divinité des grands âmes » from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride.
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