Star Crossed Lovers: Placido Domingo & Renee Fleming

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Amazon.com Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers; Shakespeare coined the phrase in his tragedy about their young love and tragic death. But the expression can be applied to doomed couples of all kinds: Faust and Marguerite, Othello and Desdemona, and of course Tony and Maria in West Side Story, which updates Romeo and Juliet to modern New York. This recording, taped at a gala concert in Chicago in 1998 and videotaped for a telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, presents music about doomed love composed by Leonard Bernstein, Charles Gounod, Franz Lehar, Duke Ellington, and others, including several Spanish songs that show Plácido Domingo in top form. After all the tragedy, there is a duet that signals one happy ending: the Merry Widow waltz. Domingo and Renée Fleming are two of today's greatest singers, and they live up to their reputations. The voices are too operatic for West Side Story, but Bernstein would have disagreed. For his definitive recording of the show, he chose similar voices: José Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. --Joe McLellan Product description Prelude To A Kiss - Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Daniel Barenboim, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Decca Audio CD 1999 / 460 793-2 UPC 028946079324 // Label: Decca – 460 793-2 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1999 Genre: Classical Style: Opera /// Tracklist: West Side Story Composed By – Leonard Bernstein 1 Prologue 4:30 2 Tonight 4:54 3 Rumble 0:56 4 Somewhere 3:14 5 ll se fait tard ... O nuit d' amour (Faust) Composed By – Charles Gounod 9:13 6 El día que me quieras Composed By – Carlos Gardel 4:19 7 ! Quisiera verte y no verte! Composed By – Federico Moreno Torroba 2:21 8 Jota Castellana Composed By – Federico Moreno Torroba 3:06 9 Già Nella Notte Densa (Otello) Composed By – Giuseppe Verdi 9:56 10 In A Sentimental Mood Composed By – Duke Ellington 3:30 11 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me Composed By – Duke Ellington 2:51 12 Prelude To A Kiss Composed By – Duke Ellington 4:13 13 Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz (Das Land Des Lächelns) Composed By – Franz Lehár 3:28 14 Lippen Schweigen (Die Lustige Witwe) Composed By – Franz Lehár 3:03 // Art Direction – Conor Brady (2) Conductor, Piano – Daniel Barenboim Orchestra – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Producer – David Frost (3), James Mancini Soprano Vocals – Renée Fleming Tenor Vocals – Placido Domingo
ASIN: B00000I088
VSKU: COV.B00000I088.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Placido Domingo|Renée Fleming
Binding: Audio CD