Nino Machaidze - Arias & Scenes (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Nino Machaidze’s new recording for Sony Classical, “Arias & Scenes”, looks further ahead to the new roles she will sing in the future. Machaidze is joined by Orchestre national de France and their resident Maestro Daniele Gatti.

French repertoire has become a major part of Machaidze’s career and is represented in this recital with arias by Massenet, Bizet and Ambroise Thomas. Machaidze debuted the role of Thaïs last year alongside Plácido Domingo in the lead role of Athanaël in Seville. She will debut at the Vienna State Opera this June in the role of Juliette with Plácido Domingo conducting and Piotr Beczala as Roméo.

Since her momentous breakthrough replacing Anna Netrebko as Juliette alongside Rolando Villazon’s Roméo in Salzburg’s 2008 production of Roméo et Juliette (Gounod), Nino’s career has taken off.

In an astonishingly short amount of time she debuted at many of the world’s major opera houses, in the lead heroine-roles alongside some of the greatest singers of our time, including Plácido Domingo (Thaïs) , Vittorio Grigolo (Roméo et Juliette at both La Scala and LA Opera) and Juan-Diego Flórez (I Puritani) among others.

“Machaidze is already an exciting if slightly shrill young coloratura” (BBC Music Magazine)

“The voice accommodates a range of expression that encompasses the cynicism of Violetta's Act 1 scene in La traviata and the naivety in 'O mio babbiino caro' from Gianni Schicchi. Her vocal accuracy is considerably more assured than in her first arias disc…Technique rules her singing; dramatic concept is revealed only in intermittent flashes.” (Gramophone)

Tracklist:
01. La Traviata, Act I: "È strano!-Ah, fors'è lui-Sempre libera"
02. La Traviata, Act III: "Teneste la promessa-Addio del passato"
03. Hamlet, Act IV: Mad Scene: "À vos jeux" to "Écoutez ma chanson"
04. Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Act II: "Me voilà seule dans la nuit"
05. Thais, Act II: "Dis-moi que je suis belle"
06. Manon, Act III: "Saint-Sulpice"
07. La Bohème, Act II: "Quando me'n vò"
08. Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro"

Composers:
Bizet, Georges (1838-75)
Massenet, Jules Emile Frederic (1842-1912)
Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria (1858-1924)
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-96)
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Personnel:
Nino Machaidze, soprano
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti, conductor