- Artist:
- Renée Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Greatest Moment at the Met: 2CD
Release date: 13 January, 2023
- This first-ever, specially remastered collection compiles highlights she has chosen of her “most magical experiences”, captured live on stage in this pinnacle of opera houses
- Renée will return to the MET on 22 November for the world premiere work by Kevin Puts, The Hours, with Joyce DiDonato & Kelli O’Hara
- Since her 1991 debut when she stepped in for Felicity Lott, she has performed on the MET stage over 250 times
- Renée describes the MET as “my musical home, the theater where I feel welcome amongst friends – backstage, onstage, and in the audience.”
- Features duets with Cecilia Bartoli, Susan Graham, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Samuel Ramey, Bryn Terfel & more
- Produced by GRAMMY-winning David Frost.
Tracklisting
CD 1
Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO K.492
1. Act III: “E Susanna non vien …
2. Act III: … Dove sono i bei momenti”
3. Act III: “Cosa mi narri!”
4. Act III: “Sull’aria… Che soave zeffiretto”
RENÉE FLEMING Countess Almaviva · CECILIA BARTOLI (3–4) Susanna
Verdi: OTELLO
5. Act IV: “Era più calmo?”
6. Act IV: “Piangea cantando” (Willow Song)
7. Act IV: “Ave Maria, piena di grazia”
RENÉE FLEMING Desdemona · WENDY WHITE (5) Emilia
Strauss: ARABELLA Op.79
8. Act III: “Das war sehr gut, Mandryka”
RENÉE FLEMING Arabella
Britten: PETER GRIMES Op.33
9. Act III: “Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness”
RENÉE FLEMING Ellen Orford · ALAN OPIE Captain Balstrode
Charpentier: LOUISE
10. Act III: “Depuis le jour”
RENÉE FLEMING Louise
Gounod: FAUST
11. Act IV: “Alerte! Alerte! ou vous êtes perdus!”
RENÉE FLEMING Marguerite · SAMUEL RAMEY Méphistophélès · RICHARD LEECH Faust
Dvořák: RUSALKA Op.114
12. Act I: “Mĕsíčku na nebi hlubokém” (Song to the Moon)
RENÉE FLEMING Rusalka
Massenet: MANON
13. Act III: “Obéissons quand leur voix appelle”
14. Act III: “Toi! Vous!”
15. Act III: “N’est-ce plus ma main que cette main presse”
RENÉE FLEMING Manon · MASSIMO GIORDANO (14–15) Des Grieux
CD 2
Floyd: SUSANNAH
1. Act I: “Ain’t it a pretty night!”
2. Act II: “That’s mighty pretty singin’, Susannah”
RENÉE FLEMING Susannah · SAMUEL RAMEY (2) Rev. Olin Blitch
Strauss: DER ROSENKAVALIER Op.59
3. Act III: “Marie Theres’!” 5.33
RENÉE FLEMING The Marschallin · SUSAN GRAHAM Octavian · HEIDI GRANT MURPHY Sophie
Mozart: DON GIOVANNI K.527
4. Act II: “Crudele? Ah no, mio bene! …
5. Act II: … Non mi dir, bell’idol mio”
RENÉE FLEMING Donna Anna
Bellini: IL PIRATA
6. Act II: “Col sorriso d’innocenza”
RENÉE FLEMING Imogene
Verdi: LA TRAVIATA
7. Act II: “Ah! Dite alla giovine”
8. Act II: “Imponete – Non amarlo ditegli”
RENÉE FLEMING Violetta · DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY Germont
Handel: RODELINDA HWV 19
9. Act III: “Mio caro bene”
RENÉE FLEMING Rodelinda
Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN
10. Act III: “O! Kak mnye tyazhelo!”
11. Act III: “Onegin! Ya togda molozhe”
RENÉE FLEMING Tatiana · DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY Onegin
Massenet: THAÏS
12 Act II: “Ah je suis seule …
13 Act II: … Dis-moi que je suis belle”
RENÉE FLEMING Thaïs
Rossini: ARMIDA
14. Act III: “Dove son io? … Fuggi!”
15. Act III: “È ver… gode quest’anima”
RENÉE FLEMING Armida
Lehár: THE MERRY WIDOW
16. Act II: “Hello, here’s a soldier bold”
RENÉE FLEMING Hanna Glawari · NATHAN GUNN Count Danilovitch
Korngold: DIE TOTE STADT Op.12
17. Act I: “Glück, das mir verblieb” (Marietta’s Lied)
RENÉE FLEMING Marietta"
- Formats:
- CD Album