Domingo, Bocelli, Martinez - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2014)

The story of the doomed heroine Manon Lescaut has inspired more than one composer, but is perhaps most passionately portrayed in Puccini’s opera, written just ten years after Massenet’s Manon. A grim story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death, it calls for dramatic, forceful performance, and gets the full treatment here in this new studio recording starring Andrea Bocelli.

Now Bocelli brings the full weight of his emotionally charged personality to the tragic role of Puccini’s Des Grieux.

This album will be accompanied by a simultaneous release of Opera - The Ultimate Collection – a definitive collection of the best-loved arias from Andrea Bocelli.

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Performer: Maurizio Muraro, David Astorga, Valentino Buzza, Ana Maria Martinez, …
Conductor: Placido Domingo
Orchestra/Ensemble: Valencia Community Orchestra, Valencia Regional

Tracklist:

Disc 01

1. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Ave, sera gentile"
2. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "L'amor?! L'amor?!"
3. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde"
4. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Ma bravo!"
5. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Discendono, vediam!"
6. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Cortese damigella"
7. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Donna non vidi mai"
8. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "La tua ventura ci rassicura"
9. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "La tua Proserpina"
10. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Vedete? Io son fedele"
11. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Non c'è più vino?"
12. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Cavalli pronti avete?"
13. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Dispettosetto questo riccio!"
14. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "In quelle trine morbide"
15. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Poiché tu vuoi saper?"
16. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Che ceffi son costor?…Sulla vetta tu del monte"
17. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Paga costor!"
18. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Vi prego, signora (Minuetto) - L'ora, o Tirsi, è vaga e bella"

Disc 02

1. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Oh, sarò la più bella!…Tu, tu, amore? Tu?"
2. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Ah!…Affé, madamigella"
3. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Ah! ah! Liberi!…Ah! Manon, mi tradisce"
4. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2 - "Lescaut? Tu qui?"
5. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - Intermezzo
6. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "Ansia eterna, crudel"
7. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "… e Kate ripose al Re"
8. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "Manon, disperato è il mio prego!"
9. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "All'armi! All'armi!"
10. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "Rosetta!…Eh! Che aria!"
11. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 3 - "Presto! In fila!"
12. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4 - "Tutta su me ti posa"
13. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4 - "Manon, senti amor mio…Vedi, son io che piango"
14. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4 - "Sei tu che piangi?"
15. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4 - "Sola perduta, abbandonata"
16. Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4 - "Fra le tue braccia, amore!"