Women in Music... GALINA GORCHAKOVA, soprano ProfileDiscography Italian Opera Arias (a 2003 CD Giveaway)	---FANFAIRE Guide to Original Content--- ------------------------------- *WEBSITES* Hildegard BEHRENS Vivica GENAUX ARIA Foundation ------------------------------- *ARTISTS' ROSTER* -Performing Artists- Fabio ARMILIATO Renate BEHLE Hildegard BEHRENS Leonard BERNSTEIN Richard BERNSTEIN Stephanie BLYTHE Richard BONYNGE Kenneth COX Michelle DE YOUNG Joyce DiDONATO John DUYKERS Adria FIRESTONE Nicolle FOLAND Jorge GARZA Vivica GENAUX Evelyn GLENNIE Christine GOERKE Matthias GOERNE Susan GRAHAM Nathan GUNN Jerry HADLEY Nicole HEASTON Ben HEPPNER Frank HERNANDEZ Marilyn HORNE Dmitri HVOROSTOVSKY Elizabeth HYNES Karen KELTNER Mario LANZA Richard LEECH Susanne MENTZER James MORRIS Anne-Sophie MUTTER Ken NODA Burham Ocal Maureen O'FLYNN Louis OTEY Eric OWENS Seiji OZAWA Hermann PREY Emily PULLEY Quartetto GELATO Juliana RAMBALDI Jean-Pierre RAMPAL John RELYEA Regina RESNIK Sviatoslav RICHTER M. ROSTROPOVICH ROSSETTI QUARTET Leonie RYSANEK Ravi SHANKAR Jonathan SHEFFER Janos STARKER Joan SUTHERLAND Jean-Yves THIBAUDET Gregory TURAY Mel ULRICH Jon VILLARS Deborah VOIGT David WALKER -Composers/Librettists- L.v.BEETHOVEN Alban BERG Luciano BERIO Leonard BERNSTEIN Aaron COPLAND Myron FINK George GERSHWIN Donald MORELAND W.A. MOZART Astor PIAZZOLLA Richard STRAUSS Giuseppe VERDI Richard WAGNER ------------------------------ *WORKS* Alahor in Granata The Conquistador Cronaca del luogo Das Lied von der Erde Dead Man Walking Elektra Fidelio Flying Dutchman I Capuleti Little Women Magic Flute Merry Widow Ring Cycle Philosopher's Stone Samson et Dalila Salome Tristan und Isolde Therese Raquin War & Peace Wozzeck ---------------------------------- *ORGANIZATIONS* ARIA Foundation M. Horne Foundation L.Sonning Foundation ---------------------------------- *SECTIONS* Artists' Calendars AudioFiles Discographies Food & Music Giveaways Interviews MP3 Station MusicPlanner New Releases NewsBytes Press Room Store Viewers'Bylines ---------------------------------- *MISCELLANEOUS* Downloading Dock" Audience Etiquette -------------------------------------- HOME SITE MAP about FANFAIRE KUDOS ---------------------------------- GALINA GORCHAKOVA in FanFaire ITALIAN OPERA ARIAS - a 2002 FanFaire/Delos CD Giveaway ARTIST PROFILE DISCOGRAPHY Click below to hear clips from: (REAL PLAYER required) "Vissi d'arte" (Puccini's Tosca) "Un bel di" (Puccini's Madama Butterfly) "Ebben, be andro lontana" (Catalani's La Wally) "Ritorna Vincitor" (Verdi's Aida) Buy the CD ARCHIVE OF FANFAIRE GIVEAWAYS CD: Dead Man Walking Hildegard Behrens/Karl Bohm's FIDELIO Anoushka Shankar: Live at Carnegie Hall Nacar: Astor Piazzolla Bride of the Wind: Alma Mahler Quarteto Gelato's " Neapolitan Cafe" Bernstein Live! CD Sampler Rossetti Quartet Evelyn Glennie's "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun" Book: Boston Symphony Orchestra's "Cooking with Music" Ticket: San Francisco Opera's "Dead Man Walking" SITEMAP Sign up: EMAIL UPDATE CD GIVEAWAY Buy the CD
The Rough Guide says: Galina Gorchakova "has one of the most beautiful voices of her generation." And The London Sunday Times adds: She has "one of the most important dramatic soprano voices in the postwar era." Of her Verdi, The Guardian writes: "You have to go back 20 or 30 years, to Leontyne Price and Renata Tebaldi, to hear anything comparable." And the Russian soprano's latest solo CD, her debut recording on the Delos International label (DE 3286), supports these superlative declarations. It is a choice collection of arias from the operas that make up the Italian half of her repertoire, which she built up as she was conquering hearts and minds with her stellar Russian roles. Italian opera has been a staple of Ms. Gorchakova's repertoire since the beginning of her extraordinary career. The preponderance of arias from the operas of Puccini on this CD underscores the much-acclaimed Russian soprano's special affinity for the heroines of Puccini - women who tend "to take their fate in their own hands." Thus it is not surprising that Madama Butterfly (the vehicle for both her US debut in 1994 and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995) and Tosca (which she first sang at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden some 10 years ago and most recently at the San Diego Opera) have become her signature roles in the Italian repertoire. Her chosen Verdi heroines are likewise strong-willed women: Aida, Leonora (La Forza del destino) - both of which are represented on this CD - and Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlo). In 2003, she expands her Italian repertoire into bel canto when she sings Bellini's Norma at the San Diego Opera for the first time ever. The CD reveals a distinctive lirico spinto* soprano - rich, voluptuous and powerful. On record as she does on stage, Galina Gorchakova sings - from the depths of her Russian soul with spontaneity, great musicality and expressivity, infusing the characters of her Italian heroines with genuine pathos. But let the music speak for itself.... Listen to clips from from some of the arias, and let the celebrated Russian soprano tug at your heartstrings. Click below (or top right panel) on any aria title (REAL PLAYER required): "Vissi d'arte" (Puccini's Tosca) "Un bel di" (Puccini's Madama Butterfly) "Ebben, be andro lontana" (Catalani's La Wally) "Ritorna Vincitor" (Verdi's Aida) Orchestral accompaniment is by the Philharmonia of Russia, under the baton of its founding director, the Russian-American conductor Constantine Orbelian. Also on the CD are: Mascagni: Voi lo sapete, o mamma (Santuzza) from Cavalleria Rusticana Leoncavallo: Ballatella: Stridono lassù (Nedda) from I Pagliacci Puccini: Tu, tu, tu piccolo iddio (Cio-Cio San) from Madama Butterfly Puccini: In quelle trine morbide; Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Manon) from Manon Lescaut Puccini: Quando men co (Musetta); Si, Mi chiamano Mimì (Mimì) from La Bohème Puccini: Non la sospirit (Tosca) from Tosca Cilea: Io son l'umile ancella (Adriana) from Adriana Lecouvreur Puccini: Tu, che di gel sei cinta (Liù) from Turandot Puccini: O mio babbino caro (Lauretta) from Gianni Schicchi Verdi: Pace, pace, mio Dio! (Leonora) from La forza del destino *lirico spinto - a lyrical voice that can handle heroic or dramatic music; spinto literally means "pushed" ProfileDiscography Italian Opera Arias (a 2003 CD Giveaway)
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