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Gods, Kings & Demons (Opera Arias) | 
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| Creators: Rene Pape, Hector Berlioz, Arrigo Boito, Antonin Dvorak, Charles Gounod, Modest Mussorgsky, Jacques Offenbach, Anton Rubinstein, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Sebastian Weigle, Dresden Staatskapelle, Carl-johann Winkler
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2941
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 289477640838
EAN: 0028947764083
ASIN: B0017SETTM
Release Date: November 11, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Faust/Act 2: Le veau d'or est toujours debout | | • | Faust/Act 4: Serenade: Vous qui faites l'endormie | | • | Mefistofele/Act 2: Ecco il mondo, vuoto e tondo | | • | La Damnation de Faust/Part 2: Voici des roses | | • | Don Carlo/Act 4: Ella giammai m'amo! - Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal | | • | The Tales of Hoffmann/Act 4: Scintille, diamant | | • | Das Rheingold: Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge | | • | Tristan und Isolde/Act 2: Tatest du's wirklich? Waehnst du das? | | • | Demon/Act 2: Na vozdusnom okeane | | • | Demon/Act 2: Ne plač', ditya | | • | Rusalka/Act 2: Běda! Běda! - Cely svět neda ti | | • | Boris Godunov/Act 4: Death of Boris |
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Album Description
The eagerly awaited DG debut solo disc from Rene Pape has arrived! The reigning operatic bass of today, Pape has created an international fan base with his moving performances on every major operatic stage. Pape has appeared almost every season with the Metropolitan Opera since his 1995 house debut and continues to receive stellar reviews for every performance. This recital brings together the roles that have made his career as well as a few rarities. Highlights are his moving monologue from Verdi's Don Carlo and King Marke's monologue from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Pape is joined by conductor Sebastian Weigle who leads the Staatskapelle Dresden.
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| Customer Reviews:
Reality Matches Hype For Once November 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This disc highlights the multiple virtues of an astonishingly good voice. Rene Pape sings effortlessly and with beautiful tone in all registers. He does not resort to yelling or vocal tricks to convey meaning or emotional intensity, nor does he need to. There is dramatic power in the nuance and subtlety of his interpretations. If the follow-up were a collaboration with Michel Plasson or James Levine, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
At long last. November 19, 2008
At long last a CD of one of the great voices of our time. I was so thrilled to learn he was finally coming out with this CD and I have been listening to it over and over again since receiving it. I hope he records a Flying Dutchman and Guernamanz in Parsifal. Of course we all eagerly await his Wotan. Thank you Rene for giving us this wonderful recording. We want more.
At last...a whole album of Rene Pape November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot tell a lie - I downloaded this album (I paid!) from the DG site as soon as it was available in Germany, so I've been listening for a month or two. However, my car player wouldn't play the 'homemade' CD so I purchased a store version from Amazon. Rene Pape is gorgeous to look at and to listen to. I've crossed the ocean twice to hear him sing. After years of buying collections and operas so that I could hear one measly aria from him, it's a great treat to have a whole CD of Rene. Many of his iconic arias, like Ella Giamai M'amo from Don Carlo and the great King Marke aria from Tristan and Isolde are here. But the one I listen to over and over is Act II, Romance: "Na vozdusnom okeane" RUBENSTEIN: Demon. The music is as melodic as Schubert, and the singer as lyrical as the finest tenor. Great emotion pours out through his disciplined voice. If there are any sins in this CD they are ones of omission -- for example, there is no In diesen heil'gen Hallen or O Isis und Osiris, from Magic Flute -- I guess Sarastro isn't a God, King, or Demon. If you like Rene Pape, you must own at least one copy of this CD.
Postscript (11/21/08)
Hearing the 'store' version on my Sony stereo, I have a new fave from the CD -- the death scene from Boris - of course it's sung perfectly, but the drama is so real I feel like I'm listening to the opera itself being enacted. Now I'm a little bit sorry I didn't go with my first impulse to fly over and hear Mr. Pape's Boris in Dresden in December.
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