From well-loved arias to personal discoveries, this recording journeys through over a century of opera, with transcriptions for cello and orchestra stretching from Mozart to Puccini and including Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Offenbach. The curtain goes up on some of Ophélie Gaillard's favorite pieces, which explore human passions through the voice of the cello, that most human of instruments.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1. Don Giovanni · Deh, vieni alla finestra with Julien Martineau, mandolin
2. Die Zauberflöte · Ach, ich fühl’s
3. Don Giovanni · Dalla sua pace
4. Vicenzo Bellini Capuleti e i Montecchi · Oh quante volte
5. GIOACHINO ROSSINI Fantasy on William Tell
6. GIACOMO DONIZETTI L’elisir d’amore · Una furtiva lagrima
GIUSEPPE VERDI
7. Rigoletto · Un di, se ben rammentomi (Quartet)
8. Un ballo in maschera · Morrò, ma prima in grazia
9. Don Carlo · Ella giammai m’amò with Nahuel Di Pierro, bass
GIACOMO PUCCINI
10. Tosca · E lucevan le stelle
11. Madama Butterfly · Un bel di vedremo
12. PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin · Kuda, kuda vï udalilis
13. RICHARD WAGNER Tannhäuser · O! du mein holder Abendstern
JACQUES OFFENBACH
14. Les Contes d’Hoffmann · Scintille, diamant
15. Les Contes d’Hoffmann · Fantasy on the Barcarolle
16. La Périchole · Air de la Griserie
17. PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades · Polina’s romance