Renée Fleming Sings Verismo

This is a preview of Renée Fleming's next all verismo album that's due in the next few weeks. The album features arias from operas by Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Riccardo Zandonai, Francesco Cilèa and Umberto Giordano.

Here is a list of the arias featured in this video:

1. Suor Angelica: Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto by Giacomo Puccini

2. Iris: Un dì era piccina by Pietro Mascagni

3. La Rondine: Ore dolci e divine by Giacomo Puccini

4. Lodoletta: Ah, il suo nome by Pietro Mascagni

5. La Wally: Ne mai dunque avro pace by Alfredo Catalani

6. La Bohème: Si, mi chiamano Mimì by Giacomo Puccini

7. La Bohème: Musetta svaria sulla bocca viva by Ruggero Leoncavallo

8. La Bohème: Mimì Pinson la biondietta by Ruggero Leoncavallo

9. La Bohème: Addio...Donde lieta usci by Giacomo Puccini

10. Zazà: Angioletto, il tuo nome? by Ruggero Leoncavallo

11. Manon Lescaut: Sola, perduta, abbandonata! by Giacomo Puccini

12. Conchita: Ier della Fabbrica by Riccardo Zandonai

13. Gloria: O mia cuna fiorita by Francesco Cilèa

14. Fedora: Tutto tramonta, tutto gilegua by Umberto Giordano

15. Turandot: Tu, che di gel sei cinta by Giacomo Puccini

16. Siberia: No! se un pensier torture...Nel suo amor by Umberto Giordano

17. La Rondine: Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso by Giacomo Puccini

Conducted by Marco Armiliato

Category:

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• Renée Fleming
• verismo
• opera
• music
• Puccini
• Mascagni
• Leoncavallo
• Giordano
• Cilèa
• Zandonai
• Marco
• Armiliato
• Decca

[gbc1627]

To all of you who lead such empty lives that you have nothing better to do than write all these inanities; ignorants with a desperate need to broadcast your emotions, your opinions devoid of learning and intellect---GET A LIFE.

[KnoedlerNummerEins]

Love this album, thanks for putting up the excerpts.

[kitchavez]

What a magnificent voice!

[SieglindeMoos]

yes! She sings Iris. I will have to get this one :)

[LordMgls]

Congratulations - very well done.

[alanivox]

All of the negative comments about Renee's voice, it's size (medium to small) are absolutely ridiculous! You guys are like bitter critics that sit around waiting for singers to crack on one note. If you really want to understand what an amazing artist that Renee is, I suggest you read THE INNER VOICE by Renee. Then you will understand what it takes to become a great Opera singer. She has had an amazing career and truly cares about her fans!

[domi2020]

Fleming has a beautiful lyric soprano voice and should suit most ofPuccini's heroines but alas something is a miss. Here renditions are too Germanic sounds and her Italian is not idiomatic. I hope she doesn't scoop as she tended to in the past. She did a horrid Vissi Darte (scooping all over the place and taken extremely slow.

[kessukesekene]

No, because she has said that Butterfly is too heavy for her voice. I think that she is a smart singer and knows how to keep her beautiful voice!

[kgarmaker123]

I like her, but in verismo? She does not have the size of voice , or the color to sing roles of this nature, .. it is one thing to record them, lets see her sing Chenier, on stage and get over that orchestra and tenor(yelliing ) along side of her.. She is not a dramatic voice.. she is a lyric, and her size is medium, to small, not large.

[Homoclassicus]

Fleming's timbre and style are perfectly suited to German and Slavic repertoire, especially Strauss, in which she rivalizes - and a few times even beats - the great Schwarzkopf, Della Casa and Lehmann. However, she's proved she's not a singer, she's an ARTIST. She can sing everything - if she adapts well to the style (which sometimes doesn't occur), the result is always well thought and beautiful. This Verismo album is a real artwork, and she surprised me with perfect Verismo style.