The Consul

Album by Gian Carlo Menotti & Spoleto Festival Orchestra & Richard Hickox & Susan Bullock

The Consul is an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti, premiered in 1950. Musically it combines lyrical vocal writing with dramatic, mid-20th-century orchestration and a largely tonal idiom to convey a tense, bureaucratic narrative, representing a significant stage in Menotti's development as an opera composer.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Act I, Scene 1. "Tu reviendras" (Voice)
    6:53
  2. 2.
    Act I, Scene 1. "Shall we ever" (Mother)
    5:07
  3. 3.
    Act I, Scene 1. "Don't move yet" (Magda)
    5:03
  4. 4.
    Act I, Scene 1. "Now, oh lips" (Trio)
    3:48
  5. 5.
    Act I, Scene 1. Interlude
    2:59
  6. 6.
    Act I, Scene 2. "Next! Yes?" (Secretary)
    7:33
  7. 7.
    Act I, Scene 2. "Next!" (Secretary)
    5:01
  8. 8.
    Act I, Scene 2. "I beg your pardon" (Magician)
    4:42
  9. 9.
    Act II, Scene 1. "Tu reviendras" (Voice)
    1:47
  10. 10.
    Act II, Scene 1. "Oh, don't say that" (Mother)
    5:20
  11. 11.
    Act II, Scene 1. "John, John" (Magda)
    3:13
  12. 12.
    Act II, Scene 1. "Mother!" (Magda)
    3:52
  13. 13.
    Act II, Scene 1. "What an indelicate thing to say" (Police)
    2:58

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Act II, Scene 1. "Well, now I must go" (Assan)
    2:18
  2. 2.
    Act II, Scene 1. "I'm not crying" (Mother)
    4:28
  3. 3.
    Act II, Scene 2. "What did you say?" (Secretary)
    3:30
  4. 4.
    Act II, Scene 2. "My charming" (Magician)
    5:31
  5. 5.
    Act II, Scene 2. "You're not convinced" (Magician)
    5:29
  6. 6.
    Act II, Scene 2. "Any news for me?" (Magda)
    2:44
  7. 7.
    Act II, Scene 2. "To this we've come" (Magda)
    2:59
  8. 8.
    Act II, Scene 2. "Papers, Papers!" (Magda)
    4:54
  9. 9.
    Act II, Scene 2. "You're being very unreasonable" (Secretary)
    3:09
  10. 10.
    Act III, Scene 1. "How often must I tell you, Mrs. Sorel?" (Secretary)
    8:15
  11. 11.
    Act III, Scene 1. "Oh, those faces" (Secretary)
    8:22
  12. 12.
    Act III, Scene 1. "I never meant to do this" (Magda)
    7:51
  13. 13.
    Act III, Scene 1. "Why do their words" (Magda)
    5:50

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