Genre: French Opera

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Giacomo Aragall – Faites lui mes aveux (Gounod)


Master Artist: Giacomo Aragall

Biography

Master Artist Voice: Tenor

Venue: Accademia Belcanto, Graz, Austria

Date: 2014

Language of Instruction: Italian

 

Performer Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano

Title: Faites lui mes aveux

Composer: Charles Gounod

From: Faust

Genre: French Opera

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Je marche…Obéissons (Massenet) – 2/4

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​Master Artist: ​​Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Biography

Master Artist Voice:  Counter-Tenor

Venue: N/A

Date:​ N/A

Language of Instruction: ​Russian

 

Selected Video - Scene 2 of 4

​Performer Voice Type: Soprano

Title: Je marche…Obéissons

Composer: Jules Massenet

From: Manon

Genre: French Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Baritone

Title: Prologo ("Si, puo")

Composer: Ruggiero Leoncavallo

From: I Pagliacci

Genre: Italian Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Bass-Baritone

Title: You Wrote to Me - If I Wished to Limit My Life (Onegin's act one aria)

Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

From: Eugene Onegin

Genre: Russian Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Baritone

Title: Ah! per sempre

Composer: Vincenzo Bellini

From: I Puritani

Genre: Italian Bel Canto Opera

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Grace Bumbry – Vision fugitive (Massenet) – 8/8

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​Master Artist: Grace Bumbry

Biography

Master Artist Voice:​ Mezzo-Soprano

Venue:​ Boston University

Date:​ 2010

Language of Instruction: ​English

 

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​Performer Voice Type: Baritone

Title: Vision fugitive

Composer: Jules Massenet

From: Hèrodiade

Genre: French Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Tenor

Title: Un aura amorosa

Composer: W. A. Mozart

From: Cosi fan tutte

Genre: Italian Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Bass-Baritone

Title: Ah per sempre

Composer: Vincenzo Bellini

From: I Puritani

Genre: Italian Bel Canto Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Baritone

Title: Auf dem Kirchhofe

Composer: Johannes Brahms

From: N/A

Genre: German Lieder

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​Performer Voice Type: Soprano

Title: Donde lieta usci

Composer: Giacomo Puccini

From: La Bohème

Genre: Italian Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Tenor

Title: De’ miei bollenti spiriti

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

From: La Traviata

Genre: Italian Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Tenor

Title: Ach so fromm

Composer: Friedrich von Flotow

From: Martha

Genre: German Opera

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​Performer Voice Type: Bass

Title: Ella giammai m’amo

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

From: Don Carlo

Genre: Italian Opera

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Teresa Berganza – La fleur que tu m`avais jetee (Bizet) – 2/2

Master Artist: Teresa Berganza

Biography (English)
Biography (Spanish)

Master Artist Voice: Mezzo-Soprano

Venue: N/A

Date: N/A

Language of Instruction: Spanish

 

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  La fleur que tu m`avais jetee

Composer:  Georges Bizet

From:  Carmen

Genre:  French Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Mezzo-Soprano

Title:  L’amour est un oiseau rebelle

Composer:  Georges Bizet

From:  Carmen

Genre:  French Opera

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Teresa Berganza – L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Bizet) – 1/2

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​Master Artist: ​​​Teresa Berganza

Biography (English)
Biography (Spanish)

Master Artist Voice:​ ​​Mezzo-Soprano

Venue: ​​​N/A

Date:​ N/A

Language of Instruction: ​Spanish

 

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Performer Voice Type:  Mezzo-Soprano

Title:  L’amour est un oiseau rebelle

Composer:  Georges Bizet

From:  Carmen

Genre:  French Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  La fleur que tu m`avais jetee

Composer:  Georges Bizet

From:  Carmen

Genre:  French Opera

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Kiri te Kanawa – Ah! lève-toi, soleil! (Gounod) – 7/8

Master Artist: Kiri te Kanawa

Biography

Master Artist Voice: Soprano

Venue: Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute

Date: N/A

Language of Instruction: English

 

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  Ah! lève-toi, soleil!

Composer:  Charles Gounod

From:  Roméo et Juliette

Genre:  French Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Baritone

Title:  Hai già vinta la causa

Composer:  W. A. Mozart

From:  Le Nozze di Figaro

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Baritone

Title:  The Last Rose of Summer

Composer:  Benjamin Britten

From:  Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4

Genre:  British Art Song

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Performer Voice Type:  Bass-Baritone

Title:  Chanson triste

Composer:  Henri Duparc

From:  N/A

Genre:  French Mélodie

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Performer Voice Type:  Bass-Baritone

Title:  La vie antérieure

Composer:  Henri Duparc

From:  N/A

Genre:  French Mélodie

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Performer Voice Type:  Soprano

Title:  Ave Maria

Composer:  Giuseppe Verdi

From:  Otello

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Soprano

Title:  Morgen

Composer:  Richard Strauss

From:  Opus 27, No. 4

Genre:  German Lieder

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  Pace non trovo

Composer:  Franz Liszt

From:  Tre sonetti di Petrarci

Genre:  Italian Art Song

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Renée Fleming – Ah, je ris de me voir si belle (Gounod) – 2/4


Master Artist: Renée Fleming

Biography

Master Artist Voice: Soprano

Venue: University of Oxford

Date: 2013

Language of Instruction: English

 

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Performer Voice Type:  Soprano

Title:  Ah, je ris de me voir si belle

Composer:  Charles Gounod

From:  Faust

Genre:  French Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Mezzo-Soprano

Title:  Where Shall I Fly/See! See, they come!

Composer:  George F. Handel

From:  Hercules

Genre:  English Baroque Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Baritone

Title:  Come paride vezzoso

Composer:  Gaetano Donizetti

From:  L’élisir d’amore

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Bass-Baritone

Title:  Non piu andrai

Composer:  W. A. Mozart

From:  Le Nozze di Figaro

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Renée Fleming – Oh, qu’est-ce que c’est (Debussy)

Master Artist: Renée Fleming

Biography

Master Artist Voice: Soprano

Venue: Shepherd School of Music

Date: 2013

Language of Instruction: English

 

Performer Voice Type:  Baritone

Title:  Oh, qu’est-ce que c’est

Composer:  Claude Debussy

From:  Pelleas et Melisandre

Genre:  French Opera

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Renée Fleming – Adieu Mignon (Thomas) – 2/4


Master Artist: Renée Fleming

Biography

Master Artist Voice: Soprano

Venue: University of Oxford

Date: 2013

Language of Instruction: English

 

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  Adieu Mignon

Composer:  Ambriose Thomas

From:  Mignon

Genre:  French Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Soprano

Title:  Quando m’en vo

Composer:  Giacomo Puccini

From:  La Bohème

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Performer Voice Type:  Soprano

Title:  Ach, ich fühls

Composer:  W. A. Mozart

From:  Die Zauberflöte

Genre:  German Singspiel

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Performer Voice Type:  Tenor

Title:  Che gelida manina

Composer:  Giacomo Puccini

From:  La Bohème

Genre:  Italian Opera

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Thomas Hampson – Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Saint-Saëns)

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​Master Artist: ​​Thomas Hampson

Biography

Master Artist Voice:​​ Baritone

Venue: ​Julliard

Date:​ 2015

Language of Instruction: English​

 

Performer Voice Type:  Mezzo-Soprano

Title:  Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix

Composer:  Camille Saint-Saëns

From: Samson et Dalila

Genre: French Opera

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