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This CD includes the following songs: 1) Casta diva 2) O mio babbino caro 3) Va' pensiero 4)Plaisir d' amour 5) Habanèra 6)Un bel dì vedremo 7) La barcarolle 8)Ave Mari 9)Vissi d'arte 10)Che luce sei 11)Dove andiamo noi 12) I'alba verrà 13) Lost boys calling 14) Coro a bocca chiusa 15) Addio del passato 16) S'apre per te il mio cuor 17) Il rosso amore 18) Up to the light 19) Il canto della terra 20) Maternita 21) Stella.
Let me inform you tha Filippa also made a new version of Prima Donna for Mexico, that includes wonderful versions from the songs: "Me he enamorado de tí" (Woman in love), "Cómo he de vivir sin tu cariño" (How am I supposed to live without you), O terra addio (duet with Marcello Giordano). Enjoy her album!!!! ;-D

Oh Man!What can an useless australian know about italian music?Well,nothing at all.Filippa Giordano is a great artist loved by some of the most important composers and conductors of the world.Names?Morricone and Riccardo Muti.If you like music buy this cd.

Calm down, Andrea. Filippa Giordano really can't sing, technically. Her voice is thin and inflexible, her technique ragged. It comes down to a matter of taste: if you like 'popera' you'll like this. For my part, the clincher was the duet with Frida from ABBA, who sounds like a bullfrog.

Shall I do the honours or should someone else? Alright, since no one else is going to state the obvious, I guess it is up to me....

Filippa Giordano can't sing.

Now back in the late 1990s, a little known (outside of Italia) model and sometime "Pop" singer by the name of Filippa Giordano was either coaxed into or had the unbridled temerity (and nerve) to record repertoire requiring vocal and musical techniques, skills, comprehension and talent far in advance of Signorina Giordano's meagre and patently limited resources. Her music was "accompanied" by a very cheesy second rate sounding "wedding singer" studio band. The result was execrable.

Giordano's technique ranged from a breathy "little girl" voice [enhanced with massive artificial reverb] in the parts within her vocal range and when the melodic line went beyond Flipper's vocal limitations, she turned the music into the blood-curdling screams of a banshee. Breathy baby-doll and screaming banshee - Flipper Giordano's only two modes of vocal production. The results? Well???! "Not good", would have to be the understatement of the century! ;-))

Now that some other hapless money hungry producers and "artists" are churning out more and more "popera" glop, some mercenary git has decided that it was high time the musical fiasco that was Filippa Giordano's career was brought down from the attic, where it belongs, dusted off, tarted up with a new colour photograph of the talentless model and shoved in front of the philistines of the world again. Maybe a few more suckers out there would be ready to buy this risible attempt at singing again?

This album is a dud and a fiasco.