NADINE SIERRA – Made for Opera [CD]

Decca (UMO) / Classics / Deutsche Grammophon

£12.56

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 4860942
Barcode: 00028948609420
Release Date: 04 Mar 2022
Genre: Classical

Nadine Sierra’s latest solo album, Made for Opera, explores the psychodrama of three of the most tragic operatic heroines: Verdi’s Violetta, Donizetti’s Lucia and Gounod’s Juliette. Sierra’s childhood intuition – that she was born to sing opera – has proved correct in every way and is reflected in the title of her second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon. The dramatic presence, searing passion and technical brilliance for which the American lyric soprano regularly scores rave reviews are captured in Made for Opera, which trains the spotlight on three of the most demanding roles in the repertoire – Verdi’s Violetta, Donizetti’s Lucia and Gounod’s Juliette. Recorded with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and Capella Cracoviensis under Riccardo Frizza, the album not only reflects Nadine Sierra’s command of bel canto technique and rich range of vocal colours, but also documents her insights into the psychology of the ill-starred heroines of La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor and Roméo et Juliette.

TRACKLIST:
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
La traviata
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave
ACT I: SCENA ED ARIA (Violetta, Alfredo)
1. È strano! È strano!
2. Ah, fors’è lui
3. Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo!
4. Sempre libera *

ACT III: SCENA ED ARIA (Violetta)
5. Teneste la promessa
6. Addio, del passato bei sogni ridenti

GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848)
Lucia di Lammermoor
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
ACT I, NO. 3: SCENA E CAVATINA (Lucia, Alisa)
7. Introduzione
8. Ancor non giunse!
9. Regnava nel silenzio
10. Quando, rapito in estasi

ACT III, NO. 14: SCENA ED ARIA (Lucia, coro)
11. O giusto cielo! … Il dolce suono
12. Ohimè! Sorge il tremendo fantasma
13. Ardon gli incensi
14. Spargi d’amaro pianto

CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893)
Roméo et Juliette CG 9
Libretto: Jules Barbier & Michel Carré
ACT I, NO. 3: ARIETTE (Juliette)
15. Ah ! Je veux vivre *

ACT IV, NO. 17: SCÈNE ET AIR (Juliette)
16. Dieu ! quel frisson court dans mes veines ?
17. Amour, ranime mon courage