Carla Delfrate - French Opera Arias - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Belgian soprano Iris Hendrickx has a great love of the major French operatic literature, and it shows in these warm, passionate performances. Recorded live in Milan, the performances are aided by one of the finest Italian orchestras and conductor Patrick Fournillier, who is a specialist in this French operatic literature. Iris has sung in opera houses and concert halls all over the world including Opera Vlaanderen, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Wallonie, Opéra Bergen, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Pollack Concert Hall Montreal and Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels. Acclaimed as a versatile lyric soprano she has been invited by numerous International Festivals such as Ottawa International Chamber Festival, KLARA Festival, Rotterdamse Operadagen, Bergen International Festival, Festival International du Domaine Forget and The Musimars Festival Montreal. Iris has been an award and scholarship winning member of The International Vocal Arts Institute Montreal, OperaWorks Los Angeles and The Meditteranean Opera Studio singing the roles of Violetta (La Traviata), Mimi (La Bohème) and Laititia (The old maid and the Thief).

This historic classic from the Collegium catalog represented the first recorded survey of choral music by English composer Richard Rodney Bennett. Re-mixed and re-mastered for optimum quality, this highly anticipated re- makes Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's music available to a new generation of listeners.

ORFEO presents Georg Gagnidze's long-awaited debut album. Georgian baritone George Gagnidze - characterized by the American opera magazine Opera Now as a Inchgentle bear of a manInch - on his long-awaited debut album presents celebrated and diverse opera characters such as Verdi's murderous Count di Luna (Il trovatore), the vengeful Renato (Un ballo in maschera), the loyal friend Posa (Don Carlos) the great kink Nebuchadnezzar (Nabuko) and - outside the Verdi canon - Andrea Chénier's revolutionary colleague Gérard, Mozart's notorious seducer Don Giovanni and Wolfram (Tannhäuser), who pines for the love of Elisabeth.