Album guide
Italian Opera Meets Jazz
Mike del Ferro & Metropole Orkest
- Released
- 2016
- Label
- Challenge Records
- Forces
- Vocal, Orchestra
- Personnel
- Mike del Ferro, Claron McFadden soprano, and the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley
Del Ferro places soprano Claron McFadden against the full Metropole Orkest rather than reducing opera to piano-trio scale.
The record also refuses a tidy boundary between opera and Italian popular song, moving from Verdi and Puccini to “Funiculì, funiculà” and “Torna a Surriento” inside one programme.
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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- BrindisiVerdi: La traviata: Brindisi, ‘Libiamo ne’ lieti calici’
- Recondita ArmoniaPuccini: Tosca: Recondita armonia
- Funiculí FuniculáNon-classical source
- Torna SurrientoNon-classical source
- La Donna è MobileVerdi: Rigoletto: La donna è mobile
- E Luce Van Le StellePuccini: Tosca: E lucevan le stelle
- TiritombaNon-classical source
- Non Ti Scordar Di MeNon-classical source
- Torna Piccina MiaNon-classical source
- O Mio Babbino CaroPuccini: Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
- PréludeBizet: Carmen: Prelude, Allegro giocoso
- Vissi d’ArtePuccini: Tosca: Vissi d’arte