La favorite, opera: L'ai-je bien entendu?... Ô mon Fernand!
Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
The Maid of Orléans (Jeanne d'Arc), opera: Da, cas nastal!... Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye
Sapho, opera, CG 1: Où suis-je?... Ô ma lyre immortelle
Faust, opera, CG 4: Faites-lui mes aveux
Giulietta e Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), opera: Oh, vista è dessa!... Ah! se tu dormi svegliati!
La Damnation de Faust, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra ("légende dramatique"), H. 111 (Op. 24): D'amour l'ardente flamme
Le Roi d'Ys, opera in 3 acts: De tous côtés j'aperçois dans la plaine... Lorsque je t'ai vu soudain
La reine de Saba, opera, CG 7: Me voilà seule, enfin!... Plus grand, dans son obscurité
Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca has a voice that's miraculously creamy yet smoky. The voice, by itself, can stand the comparison in this collection of mostly French Romantic arias. These are for the most part lesser-known numbers, and Garanca makes them her own musically; she picks pieces that optimize her range, with its impressive power in the top mezzo registers. In the pieces where it's sheer consistency and long-lasting energy that's called for, most of all the stops-out finale "Me voilà seule, enfin," from Gounod ...
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Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca has a voice that's miraculously creamy yet smoky. The voice, by itself, can stand the comparison in this collection of mostly French Romantic arias. These are for the most part lesser-known numbers, and Garanca makes them her own musically; she picks pieces that optimize her range, with its impressive power in the top mezzo registers. In the pieces where it's sheer consistency and long-lasting energy that's called for, most of all the stops-out finale "Me voilà seule, enfin," from Gounod's La Reine de Saba (a rare work outside of France), Garanca is impressive indeed. At times in the more emotionally subtle pieces, such as "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix," from Saint-Saëns Samson et Delila, she lacks the emotional involvement in the music that would keep her voice from seeming to be slightly too much of a good thing. Nor are she and the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna well served by Deutsche Grammophon's engineers, who provide a colorless, washed-out sound....
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