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Massenet: Manon

Bidù Sayão (soprano), Bidù Sayão (Manon), Sidney Rayner (Des Grieux), Richard Bonelli (Lescaut)

New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Maurice Abravanel

Massenet: Manon

Massenet: Manon

Bidù Sayão (soprano), Bidù Sayão (Manon), Sidney Rayner (Des Grieux), Richard Bonelli (Lescaut)

New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Maurice Abravanel

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Manon was Sayão's debut at the Met and introduces us to the exquisite, already accomplished art of this marvellously beautiful and gifted soprano. Sayãos New York debut with Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic in 1936 is the only other work which captures Sayão in all the dazzling beauty of her early voice.

Recorded on 13th February, 1937

Contents and tracklist

Introduction By Milton J. Cross
Track length1:22
Act I: Prelude
Track length3:41
Act I: Hola, He, Monsieur L'hotelier!
Track length5:46
Act I: Allez! a l'auberge voisine
Track length3:57
Act I: Je suis encore tout etourdie, (Manon)
Track length5:30
Revenez, Guillot, revenez!
Track length2:23
Act I: Regardez moi bien dans les yeux (Lescaut)
Track length4:33
Act I: Voyons, Manon, plus de chimeres (Manon)
Track length4:40
Act I: Et je sais votre nom (Des Grieux, Manon)
Track length11:12
Act II: Prelude
Track length3:20
Act II: On l'appelle Manon (Manon, Des Grieux)
Track length3:50
Act II: Enfin, les amoureux (Lescaut, Manon, Des Grieux)
Track length9:01
Act II: Allons! il le faut! (Manon)
Track length0:58
Act II: Je ne suis que faiblesse (Manon)
Track length0:50
Act II: Adieu, notre petite table (Manon)
Track length4:00
Act II: En fermant les yeux (Des Grieux)
Track length7:03
Act III: Le parloir du Seminaire de Saint-Sulpice
Track length1:06
Act III: Quelle eloquence
Track length3:06
Act III: Epouse quelque brave fille (Des Griex)
Track length3:01
Act III: Je suis seul! Ah! fuyez douce image (Des Grieux)
Track length6:19
Act III: Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance... (Manon)
Track length1:49
Act III: Oui! je fus cruelle et coupable! (Manon, Des Grieux)
Track length3:12
Act III: N'est-ce plus ma main que cette main presse? (Manon)
Track length5:26
Act IV: Introduction
Track length1:27
Act IV: Le joueur sans prudence livre tout au hazard
Track length0:29
Act IV: A l'Hotel de Transylvanie
Track length0:28
Act IV: Mais, qui donc nous arrive?
Track length1:35
Act IV: Manon! Sphinx etonnant, veritable sirene (Des Grieux, Manon, Lescaut)
Track length5:58
Act IV: Ce bruit de l'or (Manon)
Track length3:05
Act IV: Au jeu! au jeu! (Lescaut, Des Grieux, Manon)
Track length5:08
Act IV: Oui, je viens t'arracher a la honte (Des Grieux)
Track length3:56
Interview With Lucrezia Bori, Transmitted During The Inverval, On Previous Performances Of Manon.
Track length4:05
Act V: Manon! pauvre Manon! (Des Grieux, Lescaut)
Track length5:15
Act V: O Manon! Manon! Tu pleures (Manon, Des Grieux)
Track length15:39
'Gentil del cuore'
Track length3:37
'C'era una volta'
Track length4:58
Canto da Saudade, 1935 (In Portugese)
Track length4:36
Cysnes, 1935 (In Portugese)
Track length4:50
Cancao da felicidade, 1935 (In Portugese)
Track length3:13
Cantiga, 1935 (In Portugese)
Track length2:23
'Tutte le feste'
Track length4:18
'Piangi, piangi, fanciulla'
Track length2:58
'Addio del passato' through 'Ah, Gran Dio!'
Track length13:20
'In quelle trine morbide'
Track length2:18
'Son pochi fiori'
Track length2:57
'Connais-tu le pays?'
Track length3:16
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