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Sacred Arias (Italian: Arie Sacre), is the sixth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.. Released in 1999, the album, featuring music composed in traditional Christian styles, is not only Bocelli's most commercially successful classical album to date with over 5 million copies sold, [1] but also the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history.
The 1989 song "A Love So Beautiful", co-written by Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, borrows the aria's melody. [ 14 ] In what the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences called "the greatest last-second substitution act in Grammy history", Aretha Franklin sang a "soul-infused" version of the aria in place of Luciano Pavarotti when throat ...
The title of the songs is "The Ballad of Mauthausen" and contained four arias: [4] "Άσμα ασμάτων [Asma Asmaton]" (Song of Songs) with verses inspired to a degree by erotic lyrics from the biblical Song of Songs, [4] and includes the lyrics Τι ωραία που είναι η αγάπη μου [Ti oraia pou einai i agapi mou] (How ...
Ella giammai m' amò! No, quel cor chiuso è a me, amor per me non ha! Io la rivedo ancor contemplar triste in volto il mio crin bianco il dì che qui di Francia venne.
The journalist Bruce Scott considers that "Dove sono" is one of the best known and most loved arias in the operatic repertoire. [4] Beyond performances of the opera, it is frequently performed in recitals [ 3 ] and featured in anthologies of vocal music for lyric soprano, often with the preceding recitative.
Written in B minor, it is one of the most famous opera arias.The vocal range extends from F ♯ 3 to A 4.The aria is considered part of the spinto tenor repertoire. [1]The aria is introduced by a somber clarinet solo.
During the early recording era, soprano Agnes Kimball achieved popularity in the United States with her English language recording of the aria under the title "Some day he'll come" which was released by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1910. [5] [6] Deanna Durbin performed the English translation of the aria in the 1939 musical film First ...
Originally composed to be sung by a soprano castrato (and typically sung in modern performances of Serse by a countertenor, contralto or a mezzo-soprano; sometimes even by a tenor or high baritone an octave below), [1] it has been arranged for other voice types and instruments, including solo organ, solo piano, violin or cello and piano, and string ensembles, often under the title "Largo from ...