Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della RAI & Riccardo Frizza Made For Opera (2 LP)

Lucia, Violetta, Juliette … the young American soprano takes on three of the most beautiful, challenging and dramatic roles in the 19th-century romantic repertoire. Nadine Sierra dedicates her album to the great women in opera and reflects the hardship, sacrifice, perseverance, patience and pure devotion that it takes to be ‘made for opera’. Praised for her vocal beauty, seamless technique, and abundant musicality, Nadine Sierra is being hailed as one of the most promising, young talents in opera today. Starring at the world’s most renowned opera houses she has achieved what many young sopranos dream of.
"Her voice, with its pure, incisive and delicate timbre, radiates tenderness while she floats her golden high notes to the limits of the audible." (Le Monde), "She sings with remarkable ease." (New York Classical Review) and "The shooting star of the opera world" (Concerti) are just a few of fantastic reviews Nadine Sierra has received so far. Celebrated for her vocal beauty and seamless technique, the American soprano is one of the most promising young operatic talents of our time. Her second solo album is called "Made for Opera" - made for opera, a title that reflects her self-image. Nadine takes on three of the most beautiful, demanding and dramatic roles of the 19th century romantic repertoire: Donizetti's Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Verdi's Violetta (La traviata) and Gounod's Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) are three opera heroines whose "true tragedy," as Nadine says, "is that they could not choose their own destiny. Verdi, Donizetti and Gounod have given us these wonderful women to admire, and they have captured their souls in music in a way that gives their voices new power and emphasis." Accompanied by Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Riccardo Frizza, Sierra brings her skills to bear in difficult roles in bravura bel canto, but also in moving drama.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Gatefold Cover
• Made in Germany

Musicians:

• Nadine Sierra, soprano
• Paolo Fanale, tenor
• Veta Pilipenko, mezzo-soprano
• Capella Cracoviensis
• Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della RAI
• Riccardo Frizza, conductor

Selections:

Side A
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La Traviata
Act I: Scena Ed Aria (Violetta, Alfredo)
1. È strano! È strano!
2. Ah, fors’è lui
3. Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo!
4. Sempre libera
Act III: Scena Ed Aria (Violetta)
5. Teneste la promessa
6. Addio, del passato
Side B
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
Lucia di Lammermoor
Act I, No.3: Scena E Cavatina (Lucia, Alisa)
1. Introduzione
2. Ancor non giunse!
3. Regnava nel silenzio
4. Quando, rapito in estasi
Side C
Act III, No.14: Scena Ed Aria (Lucia, coro)
1. Oh, giusto cielo! … Il dolce suono
2. Ohimè! Sorge il tremendo fantasma
3. Ardon gli incensi
4. Spargi d’amaro pianto
Side D
Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
Roméo et Juliette, CG 9
Act I, No.3: Ariette (Juliette)
1. Ah! Je veux vivre
Act IV, No.17: Scene Et Air (Juliette)
2. Dieu! quel frisson court dans mes veines?
3. Amour, ranime mon courage