Ten Top Tenors[2 CD]
This 2CD album brings together ten of the most famous tenors, performing nearly 50 of the greatest arias of all time. It also features a 16-page booklet with everything you need to know about each tenor nationality, short biography, best recording, trivia and more in an appealing and witty design.<br><br>Disc One contains 24 operatic arias, opening with the all-time tenor of tenors, Luciano Pavarotti, singing Nessun Dorma. Juan Diego Flórez delivers the astonishing Ah mes amis (with its 9 top Cs) in supreme style, Villazón sings Verdi and Handel, while Jonas Kaufmann can be heard in Puccini, Bizet (Carmen) and even Wagner. <br><br>Disc Two contains film themes, Neopolitan songs, Sicilian songs, sacred music and others. Highlights include Andrea Bocelli s Ave Maria (from his best-selling Sacred Arias album); Joseph Calleja singing the love theme from Cinema Paradiso, Plácido Domingo with No Puedo Ser and José Carreras singing Granada.