Thérèse Raquin

Album by Tobias Picker & Dallas Opera & Graeme Jenkins

Thérèse Raquin is an opera by American composer Tobias Picker, first performed in 2001. The score is in a contemporary classical opera style, with rich orchestral colour, dramatic vocal writing and a harmonic language that blends late Romantic influence with modern dissonance, and it was his second full-length opera that followed his earlier stage works.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. Introduction
    1:18
  2. 2.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “Thérèse. Thérèse. Thérèse” (Madame)
    2:30
  3. 3.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “Thérèse needs a change of scenery” (Camille)
    3:53
  4. 4.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “Like a ghost he stood before us” (Laurent)
    0:59
  5. 5.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “She watched me painting along the Seine” (Laurent)
    5:47
  6. 6.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “Be careful! Madame Raquin will hear us” (Laurent)
    2:22
  7. 7.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene I. “When we were little children” (Thérèse)
    4:23
  8. 8.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “Thank-you, thank-you, Suzanne” (Madame)
    2:59
  9. 9.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “I remember” (Suzanne, Madame)
    2:33
  10. 10.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “Good evening, Madame Raquin” (Olivier)
    0:49
  11. 11.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “Good evening. Good evening” (Grivet)
    1:15
  12. 12.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “At half past five” (Grivet)
    1:31
  13. 13.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “Once there was a servant girl” (Olivier)
    3:16
  14. 14.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “We’ll recall when years have passed” (Madame)
    4:05
  15. 15.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene II. “Let the game begin!” (All)
    1:18
  16. 16.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene III. “We must have walked three hours or more” (Camile)
    2:59
  17. 17.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene III. “You were with me” (Thérèse)
    6:37
  18. 18.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act I, Scene III. “Come on, wake up” (Camille)
    3:06

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene I. Introduction
    0:55
  2. 3.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene I. “Olivier! Monsieur Grivet!” (Laurent)
    1:31
  3. 4.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene I. “Poor Thérèse” (Laurent)
    3:46
  4. 5.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene I. Interlude
    1:18
  5. 6.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene II. “No! No! Drowning…” (Thérèse)
    0:59
  6. 7.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene II. “Am I dreaming?” (Thérèse)
    3:57
  7. 8.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene II. Interlude
    1:17
  8. 9.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene III. “My dear! Monsieur Grivet!” (Suzanne)
    2:10
  9. 10.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene III. “Good night” (Olivier, Grivet)
    1:31
  10. 11.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene IV. “You should not have bought so many flowers” (Thérèse)
    1:38
  11. 12.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene IV. “The white dove sat in the corner of the ark” (Thérèse)
    4:48
  12. 13.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene V. Introduction
    0:39
  13. 14.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene V. “Roses remind me of Vernon” (Laurent)
    1:00
  14. 15.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene V. “My poor angel” (Laurent)
    2:24
  15. 16.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene V. “You shall drive me mad!” (Laurent)
    3:13
  16. 17.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene V. “You saw him at the morgue” (Thérèse)
    2:14
  17. 18.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VI. “Betrayed. Betrayed by those we loved” (Camille’s ghost)
    5:02
  18. 19.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VI. “Camille! Camille!” (Madame)
    2:21
  19. 20.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VI. “She’ll never make it through the night!” (Laurent)
    1:45
  20. 21.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VII. “Five months… five months….” (Laurent)
    2:38
  21. 22.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VII. “What is she doing?” (Olivier)
    3:29
  22. 23.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VIII. “You can never forgive me” (Thérèse)
    1:36
  23. 24.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VIII. “Get off your knees” (Laurent)
    2:02
  24. 25.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VIII. “Never forgive me” (Thérèse)
    3:34
  25. 26.
    Thérèse Raquin: Act II, Scene VIII. “It is too much not to be punished” (Thérèse)
    1:29

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