Vanessa

Album by Samuel Barber & Eleanor Steber & Rosalind Elias & Ira Malaniuk & Nicolai Gedda & Giorgio Tozzi & Dimitri Mitropoulos

Vanessa is an opera by American composer Samuel Barber that premiered in 1958. The work is rooted in a late-Romantic, lyrical idiom with lush orchestration and expressive vocal writing, and it stands as one of Barber's principal stage works reflecting mid-20th-century American operatic trends.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Vanessa: Introduction
  2. 2.
    Vanessa: Act I: Must the winter come so soon? (Erika, Vanessa)
  3. 3.
    Vanessa: Act I: Do not utter a word, Anatol (Vanessa, Anatol, Erika)
  4. 4.
    Vanessa: Act I: Who are you? (Erika, Anatol)
  5. 5.
    Vanessa: Act II: And then? - He made me drink too much wine (Baroness, Erika)
  6. 6.
    Vanessa: Act II: No, you are not as good a skater (Vanessa, Anatol, Erika, Doktor)
  7. 7.
    Vanessa: Act II: Erika, I am so happy (Vanessa, Erika)
  8. 8.
    Vanessa: Act II: Our arms entwined (Vanessa, Erika)
  9. 9.
    Vanessa: Act II: Did you hear her? (Erika, Baroness)
  10. 10.
    Vanessa: Act II: Anatol, I must speak to you (Erika, Anatol)
  11. 11.
    Vanessa: Act II: Ah, what a meager offer yours is! (Erika, Anatol, Vanessa, Doktor)
  12. 12.
    Vanessa: Act II: In Morning light let us rejoice (Chorus)

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Vanessa: Act III: Introduction
  2. 3.
    Vanessa: Act III: The Count and Countess d'Albany (Diener, Nicholas, Doktor)
  3. 4.
    Vanessa: Act III: Here you are! (Vanessa, Doktor)
  4. 5.
    Vanessa: Act III: At last I've found you (Anatol, Vanessa)
  5. 6.
    Vanessa: Act III: Nothing to worry about (Doctor, Vanessa, Erika, Chorus, Nicholas)
  6. 7.
    Vanessa: Act IV: Why did no one warn me? (Vanessa, Doktor)
  7. 8.
    Vanessa: Act IV: Why must the greatest sorrows come (Vanessa)
  8. 9.
    Vanessa: Act IV: There, look a group of men! - Do you suppose (Doctor, Vanessa, Anatol)
  9. 10.
    Vanessa: Act IV: Grandmother! - Yes, Erica (Erika, Baroness)
  10. 11.
    Vanessa: Act IV: Intermezzo
  11. 12.
    Vanessa: Act IV: By the time we arrive in Paris (Anatol, Doktor, Vanessa)
  12. 13.
    Vanessa: Act IV: Erica, sit down here next to me (Vanessa, Erika)
  13. 14.
    Vanessa: Act IV: You must hurry if we want to reach the station (Anatol, Vanessa, Erika)
  14. 15.
    Vanessa: Act IV: To leave, to break, to find, to keep (Vanessa, Anatol, Erika, Baroness, Doktor)
  15. 16.
    Vanessa: Act IV: No, I must never say that name again (Erika)
  16. 17.
    Gespräch mit Samuel Barber

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