Operazone

Bill Laswell, Operazone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Knitting Factory
• ASIN: B00004SR1V
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,219 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Elixer Of Love: Una Furtiva Lagrima

2. La Forza Del Destino: Overture

3. La Traviata: Prelude Reprise

4. Tosca: Second Act

5. Turandot: Nessun Dorma

6. Samson & Dalila: Mon Coeur

7. Tosca: E Lucevan Le Stelle

8. La Traviata: Prelude

9. Reprise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Daring re-interpretation of opera classics, May 1, 2001

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J. Stone "jenise" (Birch Bay, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operazone (Audio CD)

Opera lovers beware: These may be opera songs, but this is not opera music. If you only like classically styled music, stay away. This is music for jazz lovers, lush and stylish, with a sensual Spanish element evident throughout. I've never heard anything like it, and I loved it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative new disc, June 7, 2000

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David Gooblar (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operazone (Audio CD)

This album blew me away. They took great opera melodies and put them in a different context. The spirit of jazz, improvising and subverting forms, is applied to the best part of opera. Great atmospheric stuff.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars classics never die, December 9, 2002

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jarod oertel (michigan, saginaw) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operazone (Audio CD)

laswell steps out from the dub chamber for a while to introduce you to a classic sound. although the songs are not originally his own laswell ads his own originally beats and if you really listen to laswell music in general you will hear some clips from other works. but in short for anyone looking for that classic i mean classic sound reinvented in the beat laswell way possible you need this one