La traviata

Album by Giuseppe Verdi & Valerie Masterson & John Brecknock & Christian du Plessis & English National Opera Orchestra & English National Opera Chorus & Charles Mackerras

La traviata is an opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in 1853. Written in the Italian romantic and bel canto traditions, it features lyrical vocal writing, dramatic ensembles and expressive orchestration, and it occupies a central place in Verdi's mid-career output and the 19th-century Italian operatic repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    La Traviata: Prelude
    4:03
  2. 2.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "What a Time to Arrive at a Party!"
    4:52
  3. 3.
    La Traviata,: Act 1. "Be Happy, Be Happy and Raise Your Glass With Me"
    3:01
  4. 4.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "What's That?"
    2:18
  5. 5.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "I Saw a Vision Ethereal"
    3:10
  6. 6.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "Ha, Ha! What Are You Doing?"
    1:18
  7. 7.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "We Present Ourselves Before You"
    1:42
  8. 8.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "I Wonder! I Wonder!"
    1:04
  9. 9.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "Is He the One I Dream About?"
    2:47
  10. 10.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "It Can't Be! It Can't Be!"
    0:56
  11. 11.
    La Traviata: Act 1. "Give Me Freedom to Be Happy"
    3:35
  12. 12.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "I'm Never Happy If She Is Not Beside Me"
    1:53
  13. 13.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "My Life Was Too Impetuous"
    2:02
  14. 14.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Annina, Where Have You Been?"
    0:45
  15. 15.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "I Hate Myself! I'm So Ashamed!"
    1:37
  16. 16.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Alfredo? He Has Just Set Out for Paris"
    3:45
  17. 17.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "I Have a Daughter Sent From Heav'n"
    1:41
  18. 18.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Do You Realise I Adore Him"
    2:15
  19. 19.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "A Day Will Come When Making Love..."
    2:51
  20. 20.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Ah! Comfort Your Daughter So Pure and Lovely"
    4:22
  21. 21.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Then Command Me!"
    1:20
  22. 22.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "I'll Die! But You Must Promise Me..."
    3:43
  23. 23.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "God Give Me Strength to Bear It!"
    1:45
  24. 24.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "What's That?"
    2:17
  25. 25.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Ah, She Is Mine Forever"
    2:17
  26. 26.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "In Provence, Your Native Land"
    4:03
  27. 27.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "Won't You Answer Your Father, Alfredo?"
    0:46
  28. 28.
    La Traviata: Act 2. Scene 1. "No, No I Cannot Preach at You"
    1:56

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "The surprise is a band of dancing gipsies"
    1:04
  2. 3.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "We're gipsy fortune tellers"
    2:50
  3. 4.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "We are heroes, in Spain they adore us"
    2:40
  4. 5.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "Alfredo! You!"
    4:08
  5. 6.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "I have asked him here to meet me"
    2:29
  6. 7.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "All that she had she spent on me"
    1:31
  7. 8.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "Disgraceful conduct! How I despise you!"
    1:49
  8. 9.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. "Alfredo, Alfredo, you hate and scorn me"
    4:14
  9. 10.
    La Traviata: Act II, Scene 2. Prelude (to Act III)
    3:41
  10. 11.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Annina? Did you call me?"
    5:04
  11. 12.
    La Traviata: Act III. "You have kept your promise..."
    1:49
  12. 13.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Forever I must leave thee..."
    2:52
  13. 14.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Hail to the carnival's four-footed master"
    0:50
  14. 15.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Dear Madam--"
    1:45
  15. 16.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Come, bid farewell to Paris forever"
    4:11
  16. 17.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Ah, no more, Alfredo, let's go to the church now"
    1:21
  17. 18.
    La Traviata: Act III. "But if my loved one cannot revive me"
    2:18
  18. 19.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Ah, Violetta!"
    1:38
  19. 20.
    La Traviata: Act III. "Listen! I have a picture here"
    0:51
  20. 21.
    La Traviata: Act III. "I see a pure and lovely girl"
    3:08

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