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VERDI: Traviata (La) (Sung in English) [Opera] (Mackerras)

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Label: Chandos

Series: Opera in English

Genre: Opera

Period: Romantic

Catalogue No: CHAN3023-24

Barcode: 095115302323

Release Date: 06/1999

VERDI: Traviata (La) (Sung in English) [Opera] (Mackerras)

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Disc 1

Verdi, Giuseppe
Piave, Francesco Maria - Lyricist

La traviata (Sung in English)

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Pogson, Geoffrey (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
Byles, Edward (tenor)
Kitchiner, John (baritone)
Jones, Della (mezzo-soprano)
Dowling, Dennis (baritone)
Earle, Roderick (bass)
Gibbs, John (baritone)

1

Prelude

04:03

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

2

Act I: What a time to arrive at a party! (Violetta, Flora, Marquis, Gaston, Alfredo, Baron, Chorus)

04:53

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Pogson, Geoffrey (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Jones, Della (mezzo-soprano)
Gibbs, John (baritone)
Dowling, Dennis (baritone)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

3

Act I: Be happy, be happy and raise your glass with me (Alfredo, Violetta, Chorus)

03:02

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

4

Act I: What's that? (Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus)

02:18

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)

5

Act I: I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)

03:10

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

6

Act I: Ha, ha! What are you doing? (Gaston, Violetta, Alfredo)

01:19

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Pogson, Geoffrey (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

7

Act I: We present ourselves before you (Chorus)

01:43

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)

8

Act I: I wonder! I wonder! (Violetta)

01:05

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

9

Act I: Is he the one I dream about? (Violetta)

02:48

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

10

Act I: It can't be! It can't be! (Violetta)

00:57

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

11

Act I: Give me freedom to be happy (Violeta, Alfredo)

03:30

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

12

Act II Scene 1: I'm never happy if she is not beside me (Alfredo)

01:53

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

13

Act II Scene 1: My life was too impetuous (Alfredo)

02:02

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

14

Act II Scene 1: Annina, where have you been? (Alfredo, Annina)

00:45

Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

15

Act II Scene 1: I hate myself! I'm so ashamed! (Alfredo)

01:38

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

16

Act II Scene 1: Alfredo? He has just set out for Paris (Violetta, Annina, Joseph, Germont)

03:46

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Byles, Edward (tenor)

17

Act II Scene 1: I have a daughter sent from Heav'n (Germont, Violetta)

01:42

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

18

Act II Scene 1: Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont)

02:15

Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

19

Act II Scene 1: A day will come when making love … (Germont, Violetta)

02:52

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

20

Act II Scene 1: Ah! Comfort your daughter so pure and lovely (Violetta, Germont)

04:23

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)

21

Act II Scene 1: Then command me! (Violetta, Germont)

01:20

Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

22

Act II Scene 1: I'll die! But you must promise me … (Violetta, Germont)

03:43

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

23

Act II Scene 1: God give me strength to bear it! (Violetta, Annina)

01:46

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

24

Act II Scene 1: What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

02:17

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

25

Act II Scene 1: Ah, she is mine forever (Alfredo, Joseph, A Passer-by, Germont)

02:18

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
Kitchiner, John (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Byles, Edward (tenor)

26

Act II Scene 1: In Provence, your native land (Germont)

04:03

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

27

Act II Scene 1: Won't you answer your father, Alfredo? (Germont, Alfredo)

00:47

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

28

Act II Scene 1: No, no, I cannot preach at you (Germont, Alfredo)

01:54

Brecknock, John (tenor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

Disc 2

1

Act II Scene 2: The surprise is a band of dancing gipsies (Flora, Marquis, Doctor, Chorus)

01:04

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Jones, Della (mezzo-soprano)
Dowling, Dennis (baritone)
Earle, Roderick (bass)

2

Act II Scene 2: We're gipsy fortune tellers (Gipsies, Flora, Marquis, Chorus)

02:51

Jones, Della (mezzo-soprano)
Dowling, Dennis (baritone)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

3

Act II Scene 2: We are heroes, in Spain they adore us (Gaston, Matadors, Chorus)

02:40

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Pogson, Geoffrey (tenor)

4

Act II Scene 2: Alfredo! You! (Alfredo, Flora, Violetta, Baron, Gaston, Servant, Chorus)

04:08

Brecknock, John (tenor)
Jones, Della (mezzo-soprano)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbs, John (baritone)
Pogson, Geoffrey (tenor)

5

Act II Scene 2: I have asked him here to meet me (Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus)

02:29

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

6

Act II Scene 2: All that she had she spent on me (Alfredo, Chorus)

01:31

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

7

Act II Scene 2: Disgraceful conduct! How I despise you! (Germont, Alfredo, Baron, Chorus)

01:49

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Gibbs, John (baritone)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

8

Act II Scene 2: Alfredo, Alfredo, you hate and scorn me (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont, Baron, Chorus)

04:10

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Gibbs, John (baritone)

9

Prelude

03:41

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

10

Act III: Annina? Did you call me? (Violetta, Annina, Doctor)

05:04

Earle, Roderick (bass)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

11

Act III: You have kept your promise … (Violetta)

01:50

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

12

Act III: Forever I must leave thee … (Violetta)

02:53

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

13

Act III: Hail to the carnival's four-footed master! (Chorus of Revellers)

00:51

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

14

Act III: Dear Madam — (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

01:45

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)

15

Act III: Come, bid farewell to Paris forever (Alfredo, Violetta)

04:12

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

16

Act III: Ah, no more, Alfredo, let's go to church now (Violetta, Alfredo)

01:21

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

17

Act III: But if my loved one cannot revive me (Violetta, Alfredo)

02:18

Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)

18

Act III: Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

01:38

Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

19

Act III: Listen! I have a picture here (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont)

00:51

Brecknock, John (tenor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)

20

Act III: I see a pure and lovely girl (Violetta, Germont, Doctor, Annina, Alfredo)

03:06

Earle, Roderick (bass)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Squires, Shelagh (mezzo-soprano)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)

Total Playing Time: 01:58:24