Mechanical Opera: Opera Favorites on Music Boxes

by Richard Wagner

Mechanical Opera: Opera Favorites on Music Boxes cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Musical Heritage Society
  • Country: Germany
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This unique archival compilation presents the grandiose, sweeping operatic motifs of Richard Wagner scaled down into the delicate, twinkling chimes of antique music boxes. 'Mechanical Opera' strips away the immense orchestral density of the original compositions, revealing a surprisingly soothing, ethereal melodic core. The collection serves as both a historical novelty and a profoundly relaxing instrumental curiosity.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, twinkling, sleep

Tracklist

  1. Czar And Carpenter: Once I Played With A Scepter
  2. The Marriage Of Figaro: Non Piu Andai
  3. La Dame Blanche: Viens Gentille Dame
  4. Mignon: Do You Know The Land?
  5. Lohengrin: Wedding March
  6. Tannhauser: Grand March
  7. Les Cloches De Corneville: Chorus
  8. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March
  9. La Fille Du Regiment: Ah! Mes Amis, Quel Jour De Fete
  10. Linda De Chamounix: Mia Vendetta
  11. Lucia De Lammermoor (Sextet)
  12. William Tell: Ballet - "Tyrolienne"
  13. William Tell: Ah Mathilde
  14. The Barber Of Seville: Una Voce Poco Fa
  15. The Barber Of Seville: La Calunnia
  16. I Puritani: Quartet - A Te O Cara Amor Talora
  17. I Puritani: Se Tra Il Buio
  18. La Sonnambula: Ah Perche Non Posso Odiarti?
  19. Norma: Mira, O Norma
  20. Norma: Mira, O Norma
  21. Il Trovatore: Cabaletta: Di Tale Amor
  22. Il Trovatore: Chorus: Convent Scene
  23. Ernani: Ernani Involami
  24. La Traviata: Gypsy Chorus
  25. La Traviata: Gypsy Chorus
  26. Rigoletto: La Donna E Mobile
  27. Nabucco: Overture
  28. Il Trovatore: Miserere
  29. The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
  30. The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
  31. The Pirates Of Penzance: Poor Wandering One
  32. H.M.S. Pinafore: I'm Called Little Buttercup
  33. H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was A Lad I Served A Term
  34. The Mikado: Tit Willow
  35. Faust: Soldier's Chorus
  36. Faust: Soldier's Chorus
  37. Carmen: Toreador's Song
  38. Carmen: Toreador's Song
  39. Les Huguenots: Air De Ballet
  40. Robert Le Diable: Sicilienne
  41. Robert Le Diable: Sicilienne

Credits

  • No Artist - primary artist
  • Albert Lortzing - composed by
  • Ambroise Thomas - composed by
  • Charles Gounod - composed by
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - composed by
  • Fran莽ois-Adrien Boieldieu - composed by
  • Gaetano Donizetti - composed by
  • Georges Bizet - composed by

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