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Can-Can and Dances from the Opera [1] Offenbach's light-hearted re-interpretation of the Orpheus legend caused some scandal at the first performance...

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Can-Can and Dances from the Opera

[1] Offenbach's light-hearted re-interpretation of the Orpheus legend caused some scandal at the first performance of his Orphee aux Enfers at the Bouffe-Parisiens in 1858, when it seemed that he might be mocking the opera of Gluck on the same subject, The work was mounted with decor by Gustave Dore and expanded in 1874 with additional ballets, In Offenbach's version of the myth, with a libretto by Hector Cremieux and Jacques Francois Halevy, Orpheus is only too glad to be rid of his nagging Eurydice, who goes off with Pluto, god of the Underworld, The intervention of Jupiter allows that master of disguise to descend to the Underworld in the guise of a fly to seek out Eurydice, The famous can-can, the answer to Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits, is performed by the infernal corps de ballet after Jupiter has turned Eurydice into a Bacchante, a metamorphosis that leaves her happily parted from her.

Orpheus.

[2] - [5] The most famous of all operatic versions of Goethe'sFaustis the opera by Charles Gounod, first staged at the Paris Theatre-Lyrique in 1859, The plot centres on the love of Faust and Marguerite (Gretchen) and the dances from the opera, a necessary contemporary element of French opera, include, in addition to the kermesse of the second act, the well known fifth act Walpurgisnacht on the Brocken in the Hartz Mountains, where the dances include Les nubiennes, Cleopatra et la coupe d'or, Les troyennes and Danse de Phrynee, part of a revision of 1869 for the Grand Opera.

[6] - [7] Smetana was a leading figure in the creation of Czech opera and his best known work in this form must be The Bartered Bride (Prodanci Nevesta), first staged at the Prague National Theatre in 1866, The bride of the title,

Marenka, is to marry the son of Tobias Micha, apparently the simpleton Vasek, but eventually is able to marry the man she loves, Micha's long lost son Jenik,

The Polka ends the first act, while the Furiant

is heard at the inn scene of the second.

[8] Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, first performed in 1881, the year after the composer's death, at the Paris Opera-Comique, is based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, including the famous Coppelia tale of love for a puppet. The third act is set in Venice, where the love of Nicklausse and the courtesan

Giulietta is celebrated in a Barcarole, the gondolier's song.

[9] As versatile as he was prolific, Camille Saint-Saens scored the most lasting operatic success with his biblical Samson et Dalila, a work that had its first performance in.1877 at the Hoftheater in Weimar. The climax of tile opera is the Bacchanale of the third act, where the Philistines feast and rejoice, mocking the blinded hero, who is about to bring the house down.

[10] Dance has an important and necessary part to play in Russian opera.

Mussorgsky's Sorochintsy Fair, based on Gogol and left unfinished at his death in 1881, included the famous Gopak, intended for the end of the first act, but transferred by Tcherepnin in his completed version of the third, where the heroine Parassia recovers her spirits, as she thinks of her lover Gritzko.

[11] The Dance of the Hours has enjoyed an independent orchestral existence, separated from its dramatic context in Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda. The ballet, in four parts, Dawn, Day, Evening and Night, is given for the entertainment of the guests of Alvise Badoero, head of the state inquisition, and precedes the dramatic arrest of La Cieca (The Blind Woman), mother of La Gioconda.

[12] - [13] Tchaikovsky based his opera Eugene Onegin

on the work of Pushkin.

It deals with the love of Tatiana and Onegin, with dance at its very heart. In the second act there is a dance at Madame Larina's and it is during the Waltz that Onegin antagonizes Lensky, whom he later kills in a duel, the cause of his own exile. Years later there is a grand ball at the aristocratic residence of Prince Gremin, epitomized in the Polonaise and it is here that Onegin meets Tatiana again, now the wife of Prince Gremin, and parts from her for ever.

[14] Mussorgsky's opera Khovantshchina has a libretto by Stasov, mentor of the five nationalist composers under the influence of Balakirev. The opera deals with the clash between the reformist supporters of Peter the Great and the traditionalists, the Streltsy musketeers and Old Believers, with Prince Khovansky. The Dance of Persian Slaves

entertains the Prince in the fourth act.

[15] There is a very different kind of nationalism in Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve. The story of the opera is one of love and betrayal, as the faithless

Paco deserts his gypsy mistress Salud.

[16] Borodin, like Mussorgsky, died before he had time to complete his principal opera, Prince Igor. There is a strong element of exoticism, particularly in the famous Polovtsian Dances with which Khan Khonchak entertains his prisoners Prince Igor and the latter's son Vladimir.

Disc 1

Orphee aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld)

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Performed by: National Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice American Promenade Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Composed by: Jacques Offenbach
Conducted by: Peter Falk Alfred Walter Charles Gerhardt Martin Sieghart Johannes Wildner Lowell Graham Erich Kunzel

Can-Can (Peter's Friends) - 5:25

Faust

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Performed by: Victor Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra Munich Radio Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Georg Szell Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Danish Radio Sinfonietta Quebec Symphony Orchestra Eugene Goossens Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Emil Tabakov Lawrence Tibbett Enrico Caruso Alfred Newman Charles-Francois Gounod Henri Busser
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Julius Rudel Eri Klas Gilles Bellemare Felix Prohaska Walter B. Rogers Simon Streatfeild Selmar Meyrowitz Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Thomas Beecham Helmut Froschauer Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Eugune Kohn Michail Angelov
Manon Feubel, soprano
Andreas Post, tenor
Wilfrid Pelletier, narrator
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Dorothy Kirsten, soprano
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Georges Nore, tenor
Roger Rico, baritone
Roger Bourdin, baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Leonard Warren, baritone
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Richard Crooks, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Samuel Ramey, bass
Landon Ronald, piano
Richard Bonelli, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Michael Cozette, baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Helen Jepson, soprano
George Szell,
Brett Polegato, baritone
Thelma Votipka, mezzo-soprano
Franz Hawlata, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Earl Covert, vocals
Zaruhi Elmassion, vocals
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Tatjana Dravenau, piano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Anne Bollinger, soprano
Cesare Siepi, bass
Frank Guarrera, baritone
Lawrence Davidson, baritone
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Garden Farara, soprano
Gabrielle Gilibert, mezzo-soprano
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: November 1947 - June 1948

Prodana nevesta (The Bartered Bride)

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Performed by: Prague National Opera Company Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Charles Mackerras Otakar Ostrcil Geoffrey Simon Barry Wordsworth Ivan Anguelov
Robin Leggate, tenor
Peter Rose, bass
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Ada Nordenova, soprano
Vladimir Toms, baritone
Emil Pollert, baritone
Jaroslav Gleich, tenor
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Yvette Bonner, soprano
Geoffrey Moses, bass
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, vocals
Louis Hill, vocals
Ravi Shar, vocals
Susan Gritton, soprano
Neal Davies, baritone
Jan Konstantin, baritone
Marie Pixova, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano

Polka - 4:53
Furiant - 2:19

Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

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Performed by: Munich Radio Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Quebec Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra Cologne West German Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Lawrence Tibbett Jacques Offenbach
Conducted by: Julius Rudel Yan Pascal Tortelier Franz Schonbaumsfeld Rosario Bourdon Mario Bernardi Simon Streatfeild Keith Clark Ondrej Lenard Pinchas Steinberg Charles Rosekrans Andre Cluytens Maurice Abravanel
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Joseph Schwarz, tenor
Rene Maison, tenor
Vina Bovy, soprano
Angelo Bada, tenor
Francis Lapitino, harp
Samuel Ramey, bass
Fanely Revoil, mezzo-soprano
Renee Doria, soprano
Raoul Jobin, tenor
Elizabeth Steiner, mezzo-soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Indra Thomas, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Elisabeth Werres, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Marion Talley, soprano
Allan Monk, baritone

Barcarole from Tales of Hoffmann - 3:24

Samson et Dalila, Op. 47

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Performed by: Paris National Opera Orchestra Victor Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Russia Philharmonia Oslo Radio Orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Camille Saint-Saens
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Louis Fourestier Stephen Gunzenhauser Constantine Orbelian David Parry Oyvind Berg
Louise Homer, contralto
Helene Bouvier, mezzo-soprano
Jose Luccioni, tenor
Marian Anderson, contralto
Bruce Ford, tenor
Paul Cabanel, baritone
Henri Medus, bass
Charles Cambon, bass
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Eva Gustavson, contralto
Recording date: 7 December 1916

Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah - 8:05

Sorochinskaya yarmarka (Sorochintsi Fair)

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Performed by: Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Conducted by: Theodore Kuchar Edward Serov Kenneth Jean
Vladimir Grishko, tenor

Gopak from Fair at Sorochintsy - 1:49

La Gioconda

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Performed by: Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin London Philharmonic Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Amilcare Ponchielli
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Pietro Cimini Lorenzo Molajoli Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Percy Pitt Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Ivan Anguelov
John McCormack, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, soprano
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano
Camilla Rota, mezzo-soprano
Fedora Barbieri, mezzo-soprano
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Thomas Harper, tenor
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Dusolina Giannini, soprano
Elvira Casazza, mezzo-soprano
Dario Zani, baritone
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Salvatore Cottone, piano
Maria Callas, soprano
Maria Amandini, contralto
Gianni Poggi, tenor
Paolo Silveri, baritone
Giulio Neri, bass
Armando Benzi, tenor
Piero Poldi, bass
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Rosa Ponselle, soprano
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
Recording date: September 1931

Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda - 7:54

Eugene Onegin, Op. 24

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Performed by: Polish National Opera Orchestra Ukraine State Radio Symphony Orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Orchestra Estonian State Symphony Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow Chamber Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Sofia Symphony Orchestra Tolima Conservatory Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conducted by: Jacek Kaspszyk Eri Klas Alexander Orlov Mario Bernardi Frieder Weissmann Michael Halasz Vladimir Sirenko Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Alexander Vedernikov Constantine Orbelian Mikko Franck Michail Angelov Luis Salbide
Andrei Baturkin, baritone
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano
Randall Jakobsh, bass
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Vladimir Grishko, tenor
Elena Kruglikova, soprano
Ivan Kozlovsky, tenor
Panteleimon Nortsov, baritone
Maxim Mikhailov, bass
Elizaveta Antonova, alto
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Daniil Shtoda,
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Elena Tsvetkova, mezzo-soprano
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Andrey Dunaev, tenor
Austin Miskell, tenor
Joanne Kolomyjec, soprano
Annamaria Popescu, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 13 June 1932

Polonaise - 4:22
Waltz - 6:25

Khovanshchina

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Performed by: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Sofia National Opera Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Kirov Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Conducted by: Theodore Kuchar Boris Khaikin Jose Serebrier Andrew Davis Kenneth Jean Alexander Vedernikov Constantine Orbelian Atanas Margaritov
Mikhail Gubsky, tenor
Boris Freidkov, bass
Ivan Nechayev, tenor
Vladimir Ulyanov, tenor
Ivan Shaskov, baritone
Yakov Mishenko, tenor
Lavrenty Yaroshenko, bass
Vasily Tikhi, tenor
Ivan Yashugin, bass
Sofya Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
Nina Serval, soprano
Valentina Volokitina, soprano
Pavel Andreyev, bass-baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Nicola Ghiuselev, bass
Vladimir Matorin,
Elena Manistina,
Vladimir Atlantov, bass
Marina Domashenko, mezzo-soprano
Dimitar Petkov, bass
Todor Kostov, tenor
Alexandrina Milcheva, mezzo-soprano
Maria Dimchevska, soprano
Najejda Dobrianova, soprano
Ljubomir Bodourov, tenor
Dimiter Dimitrov, bass
Stoyan Popov, baritone
Verter Vrachovsky, tenor
Milen Paounov, tenor
Stefan Elenkov, bass
Nedelcho Pavlov, bass
Mark Reizen, bass
Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano
Vladimir Krasov, baritone

Dance of the Persian Slaves from Khovanshchina - 6:17

La vida breve

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Performed by: Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Asturias Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Manuel De Falla
Conducted by: Eduardo Mata Jacques Lacombe Kenneth Jean Maximiano Valdes
Manon Feubel, soprano
Martha Senn, mezzo-soprano
William Alvarado, baritone
Cecilia Angell, mezzo-soprano
Claudio Muskus, baritone
Elizabeth Almenar, soprano
Elvira Torres, vocals
Maria Eglee Perez, vocals
Lisbeth Rojas, vocals
Carlos Silva, vocals
Carlos Enrique Iglesias, vocals
Jorge Luis Negrete Martinez, guitar
Hector Talavera Medina, guitar
Fernando de la Mora, tenor
Ana Maria Sanchez, soprano
Vincente Ombuena Valls, tenor
Alicia Nafe, mezzo-soprano
Alfonso Echeverria, bass
Enrique Baquerizo, tenor
Maria Jose Suarez, soprano
Manuel Cid, tenor
Pedro Sanz, tenor

Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve - 7:16

Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor)

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Performed by: Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra Ukraine State Radio Symphony Orchestra Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia London Philharmonic Orchestra Nils Grevillius Orchestra RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Russia Philharmonia
Composed by: Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen
Conducted by: Theodore Kuchar Gustave Cloez Rosario Bourdon Frieder Weissmann Bruno Reibold Nils Grevillius Mykola Hobdych Vladimir Sirenko Geoffrey Simon Adrian Leaper Alexander Melik-Pashayev Lothar Zagrosek Alexander Vedernikov Constantine Orbelian Walter Weller David Parry
Valery Gilmanov, bass
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Vladimir Grishko, tenor
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Yuri Nechaev,
Daniil Shtoda,
Boris Christoff, bass
Ewa Podles, contralto
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Evgeniya Smolenskaya, soprano
Sergey Lemeshev, tenor
Alexander Pirogov, bass
Mark Reizen, bass
Veronica Borisenko, mezzo-soprano
Alexey Serov, tenor
Ivan Skobtsov, tenor
Feodor Godovkin, tenor
Elena Korneueva, mezzo-soprano
Nina Koshetz, soprano
Nadezhda Obukhova, mezzo-soprano
Charles Friant, tenor
George Baklanoff, baritone
Andrey Ivanov, baritone
Antonina Ivanova, soprano
John Tomlinson, bass
Angelina Shvachka, mezzo-soprano
Dmytro Popov, tenor
Mykola Koval, baritone
Taras Shtonda, bass-baritone

Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor - 11:09

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