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Manon Lescaut / Giacomo Puccini.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, composer, composer.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 49 min., 11 sec.))
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1949]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- Puccini's early opera captures all the youthful ardor of the scandalous story of Manon Lescaut. A gripping Dorothy Kirsten plays the desirable young girl being shipped off to a convent, who falls in love with Des Grieux (the sensational Jussi Björling) and leads him to ruin. When the story was first published in the 18th century it was meant as a warning to young people. But Puccini's sweeping melodies and lush harmonies are as enticing as the unforgettable performances by Kirsten and Björling. Young, heedless romance at its best.
- Contents:
- Ave, sera gentile
- Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde
- Ma bravo! Ma bravo!
- Cortese damigella il priego mio accettate
- Donna non vidi mai
- La tua ventura ci rassicura
- Un asso
- Un fante
- Un tre!
- La tua Proserpina
- Vedete? Io son fedele
- Di sedur la sorellina è il momento
- Cavalli pronti avete?
- Dispettosetto questo riccio!
- In quelle trine morbide
- Poichè tu vuoi saper
- Che ceffi son costor? ; Sulla vette tu del monte
- Paga costor!
- Minuetto
- Vi prego, signorina
- L'ora, o Tirsi, è vaga e bella
- Oh, sarò la più bella ; Tu, tu amore? Tu!
- Oh tentatrice!
- Ah!
- Affè, madamigella
- Senti, di qui partiamo
- Ah, Manon, mi tradisce
- Lescaut?! Tu qui?!
- Intermezzo: The imprisonment ; The journey to l'Havre
- Ansia eterna, crudel
- e Kate rispose al Re
- All'armi! All'armi!
- Il passo m'aprite
- Rosetta! ; Eh, che aria!
- Presto! In fila! Marciate! ; No! Pazzo son!
- Tutta su me ti posa
- Manon, senti, amor mio
- Vedi, vedi, son io che piango
- Sola perduta, abbandonata
- Fra le tue braccia, amore.
- Participant:
- Dorothy Kirsten ; Jussi Björling ; Giuseppe Valdengo ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Giuseppe Antonicelli, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1949 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 1 hr., 49 min., 11 sec.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396556
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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