Composer(s): Verdi, Giuseppe
Conductor(s): Mackerras, Charles
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)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Verdi, Giuseppe
Piave, Francesco Maria - Lyricist
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)
1Prelude04:03
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
2Act 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)
3Act 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)
4Act 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)
5Act I: I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)03:10
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
6Act 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)
7Act I: We present ourselves before you (Chorus)01:43
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
8Act I: I wonder! I wonder! (Violetta)01:05
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
9Act I: Is he the one I dream about? (Violetta)02:48
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
10Act I: It can't be! It can't be! (Violetta)00:57
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
11Act 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)
12Act 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)
13Act II Scene 1: My life was too impetuous (Alfredo)02:02
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
14Act 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)
15Act II Scene 1: I hate myself! I'm so ashamed! (Alfredo)01:38
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Brecknock, John (tenor)
16Act 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)
17Act 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)
18Act 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)
19Act 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)
20Act 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)
21Act 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)
22Act 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)
23Act 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)
24Act 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)
25Act 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)
26Act II Scene 1: In Provence, your native land (Germont)04:03
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Du Plessis, Christian Johannes (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
27Act 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)
28Act 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
1Act 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)
2Act 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)
3Act 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)
4Act 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)
5Act 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)
6Act 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)
7Act 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)
8Act 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)
9Prelude03:41
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
10Act 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)
11Act III: You have kept your promise … (Violetta)01:50
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
12Act III: Forever I must leave thee … (Violetta)02:53
Masterson, Valerie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
13Act 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)
14Act 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)
15Act 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)
16Act 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)
17Act 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)
18Act 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)
19Act 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)
20Act 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