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2) Carmen
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Perhaps the world's best tenor, Andrea Bocelli brings a touch of sincerity and an arresting sound to Georges Bizet's most popular and stylistically revolutionary opera. After its initial performance run in Paris in 1875, Carmen launched a global shift towards realism, later referred to worldwide as verismo. It is also the fourth most performed opera in North America according to Opera America. Carmen plus Bocelli can only equal greatness.
6) Verdi
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Anna Netrebko marks ten years as a solo performer with an all Verdi program that pays homage to the master of Italian grand opera. Each work featured here is full of emotion, power, and extraordinary drama.
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This opera "takes its narrative form from the second half of Homer's Odyssey, presenting Ulysses as a flawed hero; a lone wanderer who has to overcome cruel tests, terrible hardships, treachery and deception before he can be reunited with his faithful queen Penelop and recover his kingdom. Recorded in Venice's historical Teatro La Fenice, this semi-staged production is part of John Eliot Gardiner's acclaimed celebration of Monteverdi's 450th anniversary."--Container....
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Revered for its legendary score by George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, Porgy and Bess has been reimagined and reinvigorated for the modern stage by a team that includes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, musical adapter Diedre L. Murray and director Diane Paulus. It's the New Broadway Cast Recording of one of the most beloved works of the American musical theatre.
16) Dreams
20) Wozzeck
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Based on real events and playwright Georg Büchner's starkly vehement text, Alban Berg's tragic opera is an epoch-making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim 'now that's what I call an opera!'
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