Verdi Luisa Miller

Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has given a huge free concert in London's Hyde Park to celebrate 30 years in opera. A crowd of 100,000 - out of an expected 250,000 - stood in the rain to watch Pavarotti perform 20 arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Wagner. It was the biggest outdoor music event in Hyde Park since the Rolling Stones performed there in 1969.
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Josep Maria Carreras i Coll born 5 December 1946, better known as José Carreras, is a Spanish tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.
Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the operatic stage at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles, performed in the world's leading opera houses and in numerous recordings. He gained fame with a wider audience as one of the Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in a series of mass concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003. Carreras is also known for his humanitarian work as the president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia), which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.

Decca is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the supreme master of Italian opera Giuseppe Verdi’s birth in matchless style by releasing in February 2013 a 75-CD box containing his entire canon of works.

Rolando Villazón - "Cielo e mar!" (2008)
EAC Rip | APE, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers and Booklet | 1CD/189MB
Classical/Opera | Label: DG | Release: March 2008 | RAR | RS.com

"This is a well chosen selection of tenor arias with a few comparative rarities to offset the more obvious favourites... Villazón sings them all with admirable intensity, his diction is excellent, and he can float a pianissimo when necessary, as in the opening 'Cielo e mar' from 'La Gioconda' that gives the disc its title. Recording quality is first-rate, and the accompaniment provided by the Giuseppe Verdi orchestra under Daniele Callegari is always sympathetic. The aria from 'Boccanegra' is one of the best things Villazón has done so far on disc. Let's hope he gets to sing the whole part soon"

Patrick O'Connor, Gramophone Magazine / July 2008