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Live from the Met: The Voyage

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Philip Glass's s space-age celebration of the spirit of discovery and exploration, the curiosity and courage which have inspired humankind's greatest endeavours throughout the ages. Commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Opera for the 500th anniversary in 1992 of Columbus's voyage to the New World, Glass's opera "spans time, distance and the galaxy, moving variously between past, present and future, our universe and those we can only imagine".
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor
Dennis Russell Davies
Prologue; Act 1

Contributors

Conductor:
Dennis Russell Davies
The Commander:
Patricia Schuman (sop)
The Scientist:
Philip Creech (tenor)
First Mate:
Philip Creech (tenor)
Queen Isabella:
Sally Burgess (mezzo)
Columbus:
Timothy Noble (baritone)
First Space Twin:
Christine Goerke (sop)
Ship's Doctor:
Christine Goerke (sop)
Second Space Twin:
Bradley Garvin (bass)
Second Mate:
Bradley Garvin (bass)
First Earth Twin:
Jane Shaulis (mezzo)
Second Earth Twin:
Yanni Yannissis (baritone)
Source: Radio Times

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