Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Joyce DiDonato, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Puts: The Hours (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:57 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2022 with Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara as its stars, Kevin Puts’s The Hours was praised by The New York Times as “sincere and persuasive … fervent … and soaringly lyrical”. The opera returns to the Met’s schedule in May 2024. Based on both the award-winning 2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry and the original novel by Michael Cunningham, The Hours interweaves characters and events from three different periods of the 20th century. Joyce DiDonato, who takes the pivotal role of writer Virginia Woolf, says that: “Even though it deals with death head-on, the piece is life-affirming and tells a timeless story. The characters’ struggles are shared universally, and by highlighting them through the different personalities and periods, hopefully everybody can find a part of themselves in the story.”
Tracklist:
1-01. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: Prologue. “Flowers… Flowers” (Chorus) [Live] (02:21)
1-02. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Platters! – What’s That, Babe?” (Clarissa, Sally, Chorus) [Live] (03:47)
1-03. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “She Pauses at Its Threshold…” (Chorus, Clarissa, Man Under the Arch, Walter, Virginia) [Live] (05:32)
1-04. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Go Slowly. Ignore Your Novel” (Virginia, Clarissa, Chorus, Leonard) [Live] (02:07)
1-05. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “There’s the Scowl” (Virginia, Leonard, Chorus) [Live] (05:18)
1-06. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Clarissa! – Barbara!” (Barbara, Clarissa, Chorus, Virginia, Leonard) [Live] (04:42)
1-07. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Richmond… She Opens the Curtains” (Virginia, Chorus, Man Under the Arch) [Live] (06:34)
1-08. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Missus Dalloway Said She Would Buy the Flowers Herself” (Laura, Virginia, Chorus, Dan, Richie) [Live] (05:51)
1-09. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Oh Dan. Roses? On Your Birthday?” (Laura, Dan, Richie, Chorus) [Live] (05:40)
1-10. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “You Know What We’re Going to Do?” (Laura, Virginia, Richie, Clarissa) [Live] (04:57)
1-11. Renée Fleming – The Hours, Act 1: “Here on This Corner” (Clarissa) [Live] (05:01)
1-12. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Good Morning, My Love!” (Clarissa, Richard, Angelica, Quentin, Julian) [Live] (10:43)
1-13. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “We Need Four Cups” (Laura, Richie, Chorus, Nelly, Virginia) [Live] (07:18)
1-14. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “Oh! A Reminder, Ma’am, Your Sister’s Coming at Two” (Nelly, Virginia, Richie, Laura, Kitty, Chorus, Angelica, Quentin, Julian, Man Under the Arch) [Live] (07:38)
1-15. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 1: “…’Cause I’m Going to Die” (Chorus, Clarissa, Sally) [Live] (04:51)
1-16. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Heaven? Somebody Else’s Heaven?” (Chorus, Laura, Hotel Clerk) [Live] (06:40)
1-17. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Did It Matter Then, She Asked Herself” (Laura, Virginia) [Live] (06:36)
1-18. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “It’s Happened – I Thought I’d Be Overjoyed, Richard!” (Leonard, Clarissa, Chorus) [Live] (01:55)
1-19. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Louis? – Clarissa. Caught Me Smoking” (Clarissa, Louis, Chorus) [Live] (07:32)
1-20. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Ent(ha)da oikeîs en te ge” (Chorus, Angelica, Quentin, Julian, Virginia, Vanessa, Laura) [Live] (06:53)
1-21. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Richard! Get Down from There” (Clarissa, Richard) [Live] (07:36)
1-22. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “For Alone You Are Holy…” (Chorus, Man Under the Arch) [Live] (02:14)
1-23. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Mm… ’Stead of Jousting You’d Rather…” (Mrs. Latch, Richie, Laura, Clarissa, Virginia, Leonard, Nelly) [Live] (06:25)
1-24. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “Happy My Birthday!” (Dan, Richie, Walter, Sally, Louis, Clarissa, Virginia, Leonard, Laura) [Live] (05:49)
1-25. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “This Is My Partner, Sally” (Clarissa, Sally, Laura, Dan, Leonard) [Live] (02:50)
1-26. Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Hours, Act 2: “All Along?” (Clarissa, Laura, Virginia) [Live] (05:58)
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