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Rolando Villazón
Cielo e Mar
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. "Cielo e mar!" (La Gioconda: Enzo)
2. "La dolcissima effigie" (Adriana Lecouvreur: Maurizio)
3. "La Dea di tutti i cor! Bella adorata incognita" (Il Giuramento)
4. "Dai campi, dai prati" (Mefistofele: Faust)
5. "Il conosco il giardino" (Maristella: Giovanni)
6. "Intenditi con Dio!" (Fosca: Paolo)
7. "O inferno! Sento avvampar nell'anima" (Simon Boccanegra: Gabriele)
8. "Veleno è l'aura ch'io respiro!" (Poliuto: Poliuto)
9. "Compita è omai Fu celeste" (Il Giuramento)
10. L'anima ho stanca (Adriana Lecouvreur: Maurizio)
11. "Il padre! Tenda natal" (Il Figliuol prodigo: Azaele)
12. "Giunto sul passo estremo" (Mefistofele: Faust)
13. "Oh! fede negar potessi Quando le sere, al placido" (Luisa Miller: Rodolfo)
14. "L'ara, o l'avello apprestami" (Luisa Miller: Rodolfo / Walter / coro)

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CD Details

All Artists: Rolando Villazón
Title: Cielo e Mar
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: DG
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 4/22/2008
Album Type: Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Special Edition
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028947775935

Synopsis

Product Description

Cielo e mar is available in a standard jewel version and also in this limited edition deluxe package, which features a hard cover booklet with 68 pages including the original recording (1 CD). It also includes a four-language booklet (English, French, German, Spanish) and five language libretti (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish), additional photo and text material, and a short synopsis for each aria track by track. Exuberant and charismatic, Rolando Villazón is the tenor of today. Here he releases his first solo album on Deutsche Grammophon. The soaring title track from Ponchielli s La Gioconda inspired Villazón to become a singer. Here it is the starting point for an intriguing album which moves far beyond the usual greatest tenor hits . Less familiar masterpieces by Boito, Cilea and Verdi feature alongside little-known Donizetti arias and rarities by Gomes, Mercadante and Pietri. The album is Villazón s personal homage to his illustrious predecessors in the lyric-dramatic repertoire great tenors such as Bergonzi, Caruso and Domingo. Cielo e mar offers something special for connoisseurs of opera, Villazón s many fans and mainstream listeners who will be gripped by the beauty of both his voice and the music.

CD Reviews

Cielo e mar

Adrienne Gorman | Ft Lauderdale, FL | 05/02/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Listeners who like to sing along will have to learn some new material because, as he did in his French album, Rolando Villazon has included some noteworthy arias from seldom heard operas. The Maristella and Fosca selections are particularly beautiful. However, I advise against singing along because one can then appreciate this magnificent voice and expressive phrasing."