A Fool for Love

#	曲目	时长
1	La fille du regiment, Act II：Cavatine: Ah! mes amis, quel jour defete … Pour mon ame	00:04:08
2	The Rake’s Progress, Act I：Recitative: Here I stand …	00:02:43
3	Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Act II：Aria: Cessa di piu resistere	00:07:44
4	L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), Act III：Una furtiva lagrima	00:04:34
5	Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II：Aria: Il mio tesoro intanto	00:04:25
6	Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), Act I：Je crois entendre encore, cache sous les palmiers	00:04:22
7	Werther, Act III：Pourquoi me reveiller	00:02:54
8	Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227, Act I：Di rigori armato il seno	00:03:17
9	La boheme, Act I：Che gelida manina	00:04:41
10	Rigoletto, Act III：La donna e mobile	00:02:15
11	Lucia di Lammermoor, Act II：Lucia fra poco a te verra	00:07:29
12	Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, Act II：Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis	00:06:16
13	L’arlesiana, Act II：E la solita storia	00:04:22
14	Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles), Act II：Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!	00:03:46

专辑简介

“Michael Spyres has a lovely, liquid tenor, all honey for love duets and some metal for cries of outraged honor.” John Yohalem, from Opera Today

You may well be hard-pressed to name a classic opera that lacks a love-story – or a tenor as the main romantic hero. Accordingly, emerging American tenor Michael Spyres has come up with a fresh and fascinating pretext for A Fool for Love: his new collection of tenor arias on Delos.

Michael has carefully selected thirteen mostly well-known arias by composers ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky, encompassing a staggering array of love-related circumstances and emotions. He then sequenced them so as to tell the love-story of a single romantic protagonist. The album’s booklet contains a two-act “plot synopsis,” in which each segment of our hero’s story is indexed to the corresponding aria.

As Michael puts it in his booklet introduction, “What I seek to present to you in this album is a fanciful musical story of a typical war-torn couple, and their struggle to cope with the raptures and ravages of this intangible enigma called love.”

Michael, a Missouri native, completed his studies at the Vienna Conservatory, and is already well-known to European audiences for his critically-acclaimed work in recital, oratorio, and opera. He has appeared at such distinguished houses as Milan’s La Scala and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and worked with conductors like Ricardo Muti and John Eliot Gardner.

Blessed with a supremely versatile instrument, Michael has successfully performed the music of composers from Bach to Wagner, encompassing music of many periods and styles: Baroque, Classical, Bel Canto, and Verismo. He has recorded Rossini’s La Gazzetta, Otello, and Le Siège de Corinthe for Naxos.

International Record ReviewFebruary 2012
The voice itself is that of a lyric tenor with a bit of beef when needed. Neat touches enhance the singing in a number of places…[In Cessa di piu resistere] he dances through the roulades with sure steps, avoids aspirating tricky passages and maintains an attractive tone…the sound is clear, and there is much to be admired in Spyres\’s singing.