Summary
Love is the common thread of soprano Vannina Santoni’s first solo album – and a chance to look back on fifteen years on stage, through signature roles, cherished fellow musicians and personal touches. She lends her sensual voice to famous arias from the operas of Gounod and Massenet, to the great romantic heroines of Puccini (“O mio babbino caro”) and Catalani (La Wally), and to Verdi with the heart-rending Ave Maria from Otello. The programme also features a far rarer but sublime excerpt from Franco Alfano’s Risurrezione (1904), as well as the magnificent Saint-Sulpice duet from Massenet’s Manon with tenor Julien Dran. Finally, Vannina Santoni pays tribute to her Corsican roots with a new orchestration of the lullaby “O Ciucciarella”, which Corsican mothers have sung to their children for generations.
