Janis Kelly, Kathryn Guthrie, Antonio Figueroa – Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna (2015) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Janis Kelly, Kathryn Guthrie, Antonio Figueroa – Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:33 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

‘Prima Donna is an opera composed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright to a French language libretto which he co-authored with Bernadette Colomine. It is about ‘a day in the life of an aging opera singer,’ anxiously preparing for her comeback in 1970s Paris, who falls in love with a journalist. It premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester on July 10, 2009 during the Manchester International Festival. The U.S. premiere was presented by New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 19, 2012. In March 2014, Wainwright began raising funds via PledgeMusic to record a two-disc album recording of the opera.’….’It is vitally important to me that Prima Donna be properly recorded and released so that I can tour a concert version of it in the coming year, and I have decided to do this with the help of both PledgeMusic and the incredible BBC Symphony Orchestra which in turn requires your generous support. Quality studio opera recordings are extremely expensive and too time consuming to pull off these days, and it seems that a once vibrant recording industry is no longer what it was and new methods are needed to get the music out. Though sad, the upside is that everyone in the field agrees that this is a great time to bring the audience into the wonders of the creative process and the myriad of stages the recording of an opera requires. Exciting rehearsals, deep conversations, strange and colorful characters, not to mention many a silly moment, all of this I’m truly excited to experience with you until that glorious moment when the conductor, myself the composer, the orchestra, the singers and the recording crew turn on the red light and put down for posterity my first magnum opus, Prima Donna.’

Tracklist:
Rufus Wainwright (b.1973)
01. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Overture
02. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 1: “Oh, Madame Saint Laurent!”
03. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 2: Aria “J’ai rêvé toute la nuit”
04. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 3: “Merci. Asseyez-vous”
05. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 4: “Ah! Les soucis!”
06. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 5: “Aliénor, quelle femme merveilleuse”
07. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 6: “Mais non, Madame”
08. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 7: “Mais que se passe-t-il donc”
09. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 8: “À l’époque, François”
10. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 9: “Cet appartement”
11. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 10: “Mon Dieu qu’il est laid!”
12. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 11: “À ton âge, François”
13. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 12: “Voici le journaliste!”
14. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 13: “Bonjour, Madame Saint Laurent”
15. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 14: “Quand j’étais jeune étudiant”
16. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 15: “Madame Saint Laurent”
17. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 16: “La première…”
18. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 17: “Régine, quelle majesté”
19. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 18: Aria “Abandonne, pose ta couronne”
20. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 19: “Charmant, tout à fait”
21. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 20: “Oh, ma voix!”
22. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 21: “Oh, ma douleur!”
23. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-“Revenez donc ce soir”-Scene 22: Interlude
24. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 1-Scene 23: The Kiss
25. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Overture
26. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 1: Song “Dans mon pays de Picardie”
27. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 2: “Excusez-moi, Monsieur Philippe”
28. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 3: Vocalises
29. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 4: “Et maintenant, Aliénor, à nous deux”
30. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Aria “Quand j’étais jeune étudiante”
31. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 5: Duet “Dans ce jardin”
32. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 6: Meditation
33. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 7: “C’est impossible!”
34. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 8: “Maintenant, il est temps”
35. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 9: “Je suis heureuse”
36. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 10: Aria “Prenez-le donc”
37. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 11: Final Interlude
38. Wainwright: Prima Donna / Act 2-Scene 12: Brief Fireworks Music (Percussion)-Aria “Les feux d’artifice”

Personnel:
Janis Kelly, soprano (Régine St Laurent)
Kathryn Guthrie, soprano (Marie)
Antonio Figueroa, tenor (Philippe)
Richard Morrison, baritone (André Le Tourner)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jayce Ogren, conductor

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