This magnificent collection features the greatest stars of opera including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Fl rez, Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli and many more. A number of exciting new artists are showcased, including Elina Garanca, Joseph Calleja and Aleksandra Kurzak, giving a wider audience the opportunity to hear why they are destined to become the opera starts of the future. Also included are legendary performances from some of the greatest artists of all time, including Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Pl cido Domingo, Montserrat Caball and Carlo Bergonzi. With a carefully balanced selection of perennially popular arias and lesser-known, but especially rewarding discoveries, this charming collection creates the perfect gift for opera lovers all year round. In between the melting arias are a number of stirring choruses to set the most stubborn of pulses racing.
Voi che sapete / Mozart (Joyce DiDonato) (2:51) -- Di quella pira / Verdi (Andrea Bocelli) (3:13) -- Oh! quante volte / Bellini (Anna Netrebko) (4:21) -- Come un bel ddi di maggio / Giordano) (Jonas Kaufmann) (2:47) -- Gelido in ogni vena / Vivaldi (Cecilia Bartoli) (5:06) -- E lucevan le stelle / Puccini (Joseph Calleja) (3:01) -- All'afflitto e dolce il pianto / Donizetti (Elina Garanca) (3:32) -- Deh! vieni alla finestra / Mozart (Bryn Terfel) (2:14) -- O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Aleksandra Kurzak) (2:16) -- Questa o quella / Verdi (Luciana Pavarotti) (1:47) -- Caro nome / Verdi (Joan Sutherland) (6:17) -- Pilgrims Chorus / Wagner (Wiener Staatsopernchor) (5:00) -- Cielo e mar / Ponchielli (Rolando Villazon) (5:11) -- Care speme, questo core tu cominci / Handel (Magdalena Kozena) (5:54) -- Soave sia il vento / Mozart (Lucia Popp/Brigitte Fassbaender/Tom Krause) (2:38) -- Dove sei, amato bene? / Handel (Andreas Scholl) (5:01) -- Jewel song / Gounod (Angela Gheorghiu) (4:58) -- O Dieu! De quelle ivresse / Offenbach (Placido Domingo) (1:58) -- Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio / Mozart (Teresa Berganza) (2:48) -- Easter hymn / Mascagni (Julia Varady) (5:26) --
Amici miei / Donizetti) (Juan Diego Florez) (7:22) -- Porgi amor / Mozart (Renee Fleming) (3:53) -- Quanto e bella, quanto e cara! / Donizetti (Roberto Alagna) (2:58) -- Dido's Lament / Purcell (Danielle de Niese) (5:05) -- O soave fanciulla / Puccini (Joseph Calleja/Aleksandra Kurzak) (4:07) -- Noi siamo zingarelle / Verdi (Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) (2:43) -- Recondita armonia / Puccini (Jose Carreras) (2:10) -- Volate, amori / Handel) (Patricia Petibon) (3:45) -- M'appari / Flotow (Luciano Pavarotti) (3:30) -- Nuns' Chorus / J Strauss II (Kiri te Kanawa) (3:35) -- Addio fiorito asil / Puccini (Carlo Bergonzi) (1:54) -- Ah! non giunge uman pensiero / Bellini (Joan Sutherland) (3:54) -- La mamma morta / Giordano (Montserrat Caballe) (5:30) -- O Paradiso / Meyerbeer (Mario del Monaco) (3:16) -- Gli arredi festivi / Verdi (Chicago Symphony Chorus) (5:03) -- Ach, ich fuhl's, es ist verschwunden / Mozart (Mojca Erdmann) (4:24) -- Non piangere Liu / Puccini (Giuseppe di Stefano) (2:48) -- In quelle trine morbide / Puccini (Maria Chiara) (2:26) -- Di Provenza il mar, il suol / Verdi (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) (4:39) -- Ride of the Valkyries / Wagner (Birgit Nilsson) (6:22).