Mario Lanza: Opera Arias and Duets

Mario Lanza: Opera Arias and Duets
Compilation album by Mario Lanza
Released	2001
Genre	Opera
Label	RCA Victor

Mario Lanza: Opera Arias and Duets is a compact disc released October 8, 2001 of songs that were re-mastered in 1999.(ASIN B00000JMH3). At the time of its release was the only all-operatic Mario Lanza CD collection that RCA has issued. It includes several previously unreleased versions of a number of operatic arias associated with Lanza, together with the duet "Dio ti giocondi" from Otello with soprano Licia Albanese, the Improvviso ("Un di all'azzurro spazio") from Andrea Chénier, and "M'appari" from Martha. The CD also includes four recordings from The Mario Lanza Radio Show. Writing in Records and Recordings in October 1967, the critic Delcie C. Howard described Lanza's recording of the Improvviso featured here as "a well-nigh model account of this impassioned outpouring."^[1]

Track list

Mario Lanza: Opera Arias and Duets^[2]

1. "Celeste Aida" (from The Mario Lanza Radio Show, 1952)
2. "Amor ti vieta" (from The Mario Lanza Radio Show, 1952)
3. Un di, all'azzurro spazio"
4. "O soave fanciulla" (Duet with Jean Fenn)
5. "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"
6. "O paradiso, sarti de l'onde"
7. "Un tal gioco, creditemi"
8. "Stolta paura l'amour" (Duet with Elaine Malbin)
9. "La donna é mobile"
10. "Vesti la giubba" (from The Mario Lanza Radio Show)
11. "M'appari, tutt'amor"
12. "Nessun dorma"
13. "Testa adorata"
14. "Come un bel di di Maggio"
15. "Lamento di Federico" (from The Mario Lanza Radio Show)
16. Dio ti giocondi" (Duet with Licia Albanese)

The classical songs and arias on the radio show broadcasts were usually conducted by Constantine Callinicos.^[3] The other arias were of Constantine Callinicos conducting the Naples Allesandro Scarlotti Orchestra.

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