ABOUT THIS CD: Jacques Offenbach – Robinson Crusoe

Label: Opera Rara – ORC7

Format:

3 x CD, Reissue, Stereo

Country: UK

Released: 1993

Genre: Classical

Style: Operetta, Classical

1-1 Overture

1-2 Introduction: There's a Story

1-3 Voice of the Sea

1-4 Quartet: Ah, what a charming boy

1-5 Togetherness

1-6 My Friend Tom

1-7 Ensemble: there's Got to be a Way

1-8 I am in Love!

1-9 Quartet: With a Kiss

1-10 Please Hear Me!

1-11 Shinig Brightly Up Above Me

1-12 On Second Thought

1-13 Ah well then, On My Own

2-1 Act II - Sea Symphony

2-2 Six years and seven days

2-3 In the long ago

2-4 A pain that fills my heart (duet)

2-5 One day you'll fall in love

2-6 Entracte, Scene II

2-7 Stewpot song

2-8 Oh, hold me Toby (duet)

2-9 I can't think why I married you!

2-10 Prepare, prepare, make the goddess ready (Finale, chorus)

2-11 Please don't make a fuss (ensemble)

2-12 Take me away to the one I adore (waltz song)

3-1 Act III - Entracte

3-2 Friday's love song

3-3 This must be what bliss is (trio)

3-4 Happy Day! (ensemble)

3-5 I had a dream

3-6 Friday's name song

3-7 Suzanne's black and white song

3-8 There's no place like England (quartet)

3-9 Pirates' drinking song

3-10 Tamayos are We! (finale)

Copyright © – Opera Rara

Baritone Vocals [Jim Cocks] – Alan Opie

Bass Vocals [Sir William Crusoe] – Roderick Kennedy

Bass Vocals [Will Atkins] – Wyndham Parfitt

Composed By – Jacques Offenbach

Conductor – Alun Francis

Libretto By – Eugène Cormon, Hector Cremieux*

Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Lady Deborah Crusoe] – Enid Hartle

Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Man Friday] – Sandra Browne (2)

Orchestra – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Soprano Vocals [Edwige] – Yvonne Kenny

Soprano Vocals [Suzanne] – Marilyn Hill Smith

Tenor Vocals [Robinson Crusoe] – John Brecknock

Tenor Vocals [Toby] – Alexander Oliver

Translated By – Don White (11)

Sung in English. Booklet with notes, biogs & English libretto. No translations.

Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London, August 1980.

Condition: Like New. Includes original booklet. 3 Discs: no scratches. Case: clean, bright, odor free, a few slight scuffs, no cracks. Ships FIRST CLASS same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! Packed in a RIGID mailer with padding. Ships from California. Click on Photo to see actual item.