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Gods, Kings & Demons (Opera Arias)
Rene Pape
Gods, Kings & Demons (Opera Arias)
Genre: Classical
 
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The eagerly awaited DG debut solo disc from René Pape has arrived! The reigning operatic bass of today, Pape has created an international fan base with his moving performances on every major operatic stage. Pape has a...  more »

     
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All Artists: Rene Pape
Title: Gods, Kings & Demons (Opera Arias)
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 11/11/2008
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028947764083

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The eagerly awaited DG debut solo disc from René Pape has arrived! The reigning operatic bass of today, Pape has created an international fan base with his moving performances on every major operatic stage. Pape has appeared almost every season with the Metropolitan Opera since his 1995 house debut and continues to receive stellar reviews for every performance. This recital brings together the roles that have made his career as well as a few rarities. Highlights are his moving monologue from Verdi's Don Carlo and King Marke's monologue from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Pape is joined by conductor Sebastian Weigle who leads the Staatskapelle Dresden.
 

CD Reviews

At last...a whole album of Rene Pape
Annilow | Clay Co, FL | 11/16/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Rene Pape is gorgeous to look at and to listen to. I've crossed the ocean twice to hear him sing. After years of buying collections and operas so that I could hear one measly aria from him, it's a great treat to have a whole CD of Rene. Many of his iconic arias, like Ella Giamai M'amo from Don Carlo and the great King Marke monologue from Tristan and Isolde are here. But the one I listen to over and over is Act II, Romance: "Na vozdusnom okeane" RUBENSTEIN: Demon. The music is as melodic as Schubert, and the singer as lyrical as the finest tenor. Great emotion pours out through his disciplined voice. If there are any sins in this CD they are ones of omission -- for example, there is no In diesen heil'gen Hallen or O Isis und Osiris, from Magic Flute -- I guess Sarastro isn't a God, King, or Demon. You must own at least one copy of this CD."
At long last.
Andrew M. Calandriello | 11/19/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"At long last a CD of one of the great voices of our time. I was so thrilled to learn he was finally coming out with this CD and I have been listening to it over and over again since receiving it. I hope he records a Flying Dutchman and Guernamanz in Parsifal. Of course we all eagerly await his Wotan. Thank you Rene for giving us this wonderful recording. We want more."
Ok, but studied and careful
Voice professional | 02/16/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)

"I wish I could be as impressed as the others who have reviewed this album, but as a fellow bass, I am very critical and this album is fine, but workmanlike and just OK.

The Berlioz doesn't work at all, the Hoffman aria sounds pinched on the final F#, the Don Carlo has great color and suffering only in the soft recit parts, and there is a legato, but no word painting or coloring.I want to be "blown away" and I wasn't .Sorry.And he sounds like a bass-baritone to me as his top blossoms and the bottom is thinner and is not as rich as a true bass should be. Where are the great "true" basses?"