Track Listing

1. Rom�o et Juliette. Je Veux Vivre
2. Rigoletto. Gualtier Malde...Caro nome
3. Ariadne auf Naxos, Zerbinetta. Gro�m�chtige Prinzessin...
4. Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Una Voce Poco fa
5. The Rakes Progress. Silently night...I go to him
6. Gianni Schicchi; O mio Babbino Caro
7. Un Ballo in Maschera. Volta la terrea
8. Un Ballo in Maschera. Saper Vorreste
9. Linda di Chamounix. O luce di quest amina
10. Hamlet. A vos jeux, mes amis...
11. Candide. Glitter and be Gay

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6656 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

CD Description
After two Virgin Classics recitals of 18th-century repertoire, this new collection from German soprano Diana Damrau moves forward to the 19th and 20th centuries, with repertoire ranging from Nicolai and Rossini to Stravinsky and Bernstein, from comedy to tragedy and covering four languages: German, Italian, French and English.

Customer Reviews

Gravely disappointing and even embarassing
Having seen Diana Damrau on a number of occasions, and having bought some of her other discs, I was interested in her new Coloraturas - this rather banal collection of great arias - I was particularly interested in her "interpretation" of Zerbinetta and Linda. While Virgin Classics has some wonderful signers - Joyce di Donato, Philippe Jaroussky, just to name two and produces good texts and booklets, I fear for the future of their producers for this CD is really one of the worst I have ever purchased. Damrau had a very bad series of days when recording this - she is off pitch and repeatedly breathless, and takes shameful and vulgar liberties with tempi. Diction is pretty dreadful and squalking high notes are juxtaposed with awful chest noises and sloppy coloratura. If anybody wants a great coluratura album, I would without doubt suggest instead Luba Organosova's Naxos disk which is cheaper, and much more exciting - and Damrau is much better represented in her other efforts. Such a shame that a good singer was probably constricted to record this dreadful album and that Wilhelm Meister (Producer) did not shelf this entirely.

Versatile....and excellent!
When you look at the tracklist you might feel a little bit confused as there are arias from many different composers in many different languages (Frenach, German, Italian, English), so where's the point, what's the central theme of this recording (especially as not all the arias are coloratura arias)?
But when you listen to the brilliantly sung arias it feels homogenenous and highly enjoyable. It just fits. Especially Damrau's interpretation of Verdi, Gounod and (most of all) Bernstein are simply great. Expectations for the aria from Bernstein's Candide were really high after she performed it more than 3 years ago at Munich's Olympic stadium on the concert before the football world cup started - and she matches her performance on this record. Would love to see her performing it on stage.
I can just recommend buying this cd.