Opera Without Words

Georges Bizet (Composer), Pietro Mascagni (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Arthur Fiedler (Conductor), Boston Pops Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra
• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
• Composer: Georges Bizet, Pietro Mascagni, Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, et al.
• Audio CD (May 12, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003F7N
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,790 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pops and Fiedler Provide Opera to Drive in Rush Hour...., August 26, 2005

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Opera Without Words (Audio CD)

....pop this bad boy in your vehicle tape deck or CD player and go into a world where jerky, stopping hi-way rush hour traffic or that guy in the SUV cutting in front of you does not matter.
Wagner's 'The Valkyrie' will give you some surreal moments driving in the rain--try it out. Music you know you've heard but didn't know the titles to--Bizet's Carmen, The Grand March from Aida, Puccinni's 'La Boheme'--will give you a great experience on the open road. While there are opera purists who call it blasphemy to play opera with no words and who think it is a bastardization of opera by having Authur Fiedler and the Boston Pops perform these tunes, forget them. Who knows? Mebbe playing these renditions will make you look up some of the more definitive recordings of these classics. And then you'll play opera for the sheer enjoyment and to share in the great passion. You will discover what you've been missing all these years.