This album for mixed choir and piano contains a selection of richly varied choruses from Italian, French, German, English and Russian operas from the 17th to 19th centuries, illuminating the great diversity of the genre. Included are opera choruses from the following works: ˇ Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo ˇ George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea HWV 49b ˇ Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (Vienna Version 1767) ˇ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo K 366 ˇ Franz Schubert: Fierabras D 796 ˇ Vincenzo Bellini: Norma ˇ Camille Saint-Saens: Samson et Dalila ˇ Georges Bizet: Carmen ˇ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin (Cyrillic script with transliteration) / Choeur Mixte (SATB)
