After the first two “Bellissimo” recordings dedicated to Handel and Vivaldi and Italian opera arias, this new release features a selection of beautiful French arias from Massenet’s Werther and Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles to Gounod’s La Reine de Saba and Edouard Lalo’s le Roi d’Ys.

Artists

Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Desirée Rancatore (soprano), Jeon-Won Lee (tenor), Warren Mok (tenor), Carmela Remigio (soprano) & Michelle Breedt (soprano), Giorgio Casciarri (tenor), Ana María Sánchez (soprano), Jasu Nakajima (tenor) & Annick Massis (soprano), Guylaine Girard (soprano), Giuseppina Piunti (soprano), Sébastien Guèze (tenor) & Eric Martin-Bonnet (baritone), Luca Grassi (baritone)

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia & Coro da Camera di Bratislava, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Renato Palumbo, Manlio Benzi, Marco Guidarini, Emmanuel Villaume, Marcello Viotti, Patrick Davin, Jean-Luc Tingaud