艾瑪．瑪修絲無疑是當今澳洲歌劇界上最閃亮的一顆巨星,不僅在澳洲是家喻戶曉的女高音,在歐陸也具有高度的名聲,多次在世界最高殿堂演唱重要角色.更是一再地獲得音樂獎項的肯定,包括七度奪下Helpmann Awards,九度贏得Green Room Awards, 2003年度最佳古典音樂音樂家the ‘Mo’ Award for Classical Performer,以及Remy Martin Australian Opera Award.本張專輯由ABC Classcis與DG唱片公司合作,推出艾瑪．瑪修絲在蒙地卡羅的音樂會實況,收錄多首大家耳熟能詳的經典曲目.一位巨星女高音的絕美演唱,被譽為蘇莎蘭接班人的夢幻美聲!

曲目:
Bellini:Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi)
Bernstein:Glitter and be gay (from Candide)
Bowman, C:Now Touch the Air Softly
Delibes:Ou va la jeune Indoue? ’Bell Song’ (from Lakme)
Donizetti:Ancor non giunse! ... Regnava nel silenzio…Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Flotow:The Last Rose of Summer (Martha)
Gounod:Dieu! Quel frisson court dans mes veines from Romeo and Juliette
Mills, R:The Nightingale’s Song (The Love of the Nightingale)
Offenbach:Les oiseaux dans la charmille (from Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Proch:Deh! torna mio bene, Op. 164
Thomas, Ambroise: A vos jeux, mes amis (from Hamlet)

Emma Matthews (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Brad Cohen