Reader's Digest - Sass Sylvia - Az Operadiva - 4 CD Box Set

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Product Details:

• Product Type: 4-CD Box Set
• Label: Reader's Digest
• Artist: Sass Sylvia
• Genre: Classical / Opera
• Language: Hungarian / International
• Catalog Number: RM-CD09091-1-4
• Release Year: 2009
• Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed

Product Features

• Format: 4 x CD, Compact Disc Digital Audio
• Number of Discs: 4
• Packaging: Multi-disc jewel case box set
• Booklet: Included (detailed Hungarian language liner notes)
• Label: Reader's Digest
• Region: Not applicable (CD audio)

Overview

Sylvia Sass was one of the most compelling dramatic sopranos of the late twentieth century - a voice that earned standing ovations at the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. This four-disc Reader's Digest box set, released in 2009, draws together the full arc of her recorded career: operatic masterworks, nineteenth-century bel canto, Verdi heroines, and Hungarian folk songs and operetta favorites.

The first disc opens with opera and concert arias performed at the highest level - Stradella, Mozart, Wagner, Respighi, and Richard Strauss. The second shifts to the golden age of opera, with excerpts from Donizetti, Erkel, Gounod, Mascagni, and Cilea. Disc three is pure Verdi - I Lombardi, Ernani, Attila, Macbeth, Otello - with Sass inhabiting each of those difficult heroines with authority. The fourth disc opens the door to a warmer, more personal world: Hungarian folk songs, operetta, and popular classics by Kálmán, Lehár, and Millöcker.

Forty-nine tracks across four CDs. This is not a greatest-hits compilation assembled around a single era. It is a portrait.

Interesting Facts

• Sylvia Sass made her international debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1976 and quickly established herself as one of the leading Verdi and Puccini sopranos of her generation.
• She was personally selected by Georg Solti to record Tosca for Decca in 1977 - a recording that brought her global attention overnight.
• Her interpretations of Verdi's dramatic heroines, particularly Lady Macbeth and Abigaille in Nabucco, were praised by critics for their psychological depth as much as their vocal power.
• Sass was born in Győr, Hungary in 1951 and trained at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest - the same institution that shaped Bartók, Kodály, and Solti.
• The recordings on this set were originally made for Hungaroton Records, the Hungarian state label, and were licensed to Reader's Digest for this 2009 compilation release.
• Despite an international career spanning major houses on three continents, Sass maintained a deep connection to Hungarian repertoire - operetta, folk songs, and the works of Erkel remain central to her legacy in Hungary.

Track Listing

CD 1 - Opera- és koncertáriák mesterfokon (Opera and Concert Arias at the Highest Level)

1. Pietà, Signore (Stradella)
2. Koncertária (Mozart)
3. Recitativo és Elektra áriája (Mozart: Idomeneo)
4. Jelenet és Koncertária (Mozart)
5. Médea áriája (Cherubini: Médea)
6. Csarnok-ária (Wagner: Tannhäuser)
7. Senta balladája (Wagner: A Bolygó Hollandi)
8. Az angyal (Wagner)
9. Fájdalmak (Wagner)
10. Candida monológja (Respighi: Belfagor)
11. Szeptember (R. Strauss)
12. Lefekvskor (R. Strauss)
13. Köszönet (R. Strauss)

CD 2 - Az opera aranykora - Részletek 19. századi dalművekből (The Golden Age of Opera - Excerpts from 19th-Century Operas)

1. Őrülési jelenet (Donizetti: Lammermoori Lucia)
2. Szilágyi Erzsébet áriája (Erkel: Hunyadi László)
3. La Grange-ária (Erkel: Hunyadi László)
4. Margit balladája és ék-szérária (Erkel: Hunyadi László)
5. Kettős és jelenet (Gounod: Faust)
6. Ave Maria (Gounod)
7. Margit áriája (Boito: Mefisztofelesz)
8. Santuzza romanca (Mascagni: Parasztbecsület)
9. Adriana áriája (Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur)
10. Wally áriája (Catalani: La Wally)

CD 3 - Verdi-hősnők szerepében (In the Roles of Verdi's Heroines)

1. Jelenet, ária és rondó-finálé (A Lombardok)
2. Jelenet és kettős (A Lombardok)
3. Jelenet és Elvira cavatinája (Ernani)
4. Kettős (Attila)
5. Jelenet és Lady Macbeth cavatinája (Macbeth)
6. Jelenet és kettős (Macbeth)
7. Amélia áriája (Az álarcosbál)
8. Leonóra áriája (A végzet hatalma)
9. Füzfa-dal (Otello)

CD 4 - Népdalok - Operett - Slágerek (Folk Songs - Operetta - Hits)

1. Szivárvány havasan (Népdal)
2. Szomorú fűzfák (Népdal)
3. Bevezetés és Marica belépője (Kálmán)
4. Pompadour belépője (Fall)
5. Giuditta dala (Lehár Ferenc)
6. Jeanne dala (Millöcker)
7. Heléna romanca (Offenbach)
8. Szilvia belépője (Kálmán Imre)
9. "Szabadság, szerelem"
10. Ez az a mámor
11. Hogy ember légy
12. Hová tűnt az álom?
13. Szólj, hogyha elvesznék az éjben
14. Mire való?
15. Nincs tovább a régi út
16. Oh, hol jársz?
17. Sarà, quel che sarà

Publishers

Recordings originally produced by Hungaroton Records Hanglemezkiadó Kft., Budapest. Licensed to Reader's Digest Kiadó Kft., Budapest, 2009. Cover design by Farkas Csilla. Photography: MTI. Print production: AMICUS Stúdió.

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