Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212015421
Catalog number: SIGCD 154
Releasedate: 01-07-09
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212015421
Releasedate: 01-07-09
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a masterwork of 19th Century literature; a parable on the struggle for personal freedom against the conventions of a hostile society, played out in a tragic love-story. With a libretto by the distinguished director Colin Graham after the novel by Leo Tolstoy, David Carlson's opera vividly captures the drama and message of the original work. This double-disc set is a world premiere recording of the opera, with commanding performances from members of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stewart Robertson.
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1Prologue -The Station, Moscow. Winter, 187403:32
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2Part 1 -Scene 1: A sitting room in Stiva's house, That day.07:52
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3Part 1 -Scene 2: A ball at Princess Betsy Tverskoya's house12:15
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4Part 1 -Scene 3: Karenin's house, St Petersburg. That night.06:10
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5Part 2 -Scene 1: Stiva's house. A few days later01:27
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6Part 2 -Scene 2: Lenin's house in the country08:53
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7Part 2 -Scene 3: Karenin's country house outside St Petersburg. Spring09:54
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8Part 3 -Scene 1: A box at the races. Tsarskoe Selo. That afternoon.10:49
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9Part 3 -Scene 2: Karenin's study, some days later. Night11:15
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1Part 4 -Scene 1: The Admiralty Gardens, St Petersburg. Early Autumn.07:31
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2Part 4 -Scene 2: A supper party at the Oblonsky's06:40
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3Part 4 -Scene 3: Anna's bedroom, that night.06:40
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4Interlude01:16
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5Part 5 -Scene 1: Levin's house. Six months later.02:45
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6Part 5 -Scene 2: Anna, writing.04:37
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7Part 5 -Scene 3: Seriosha's bedroom. Early morning on his birthday.04:30
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8Interlude00:45
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9Part 6 -Scene 1: Anna's apartments at an hotel. That evening.18:43
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10Part 6 -Scene 2: The Station Platform.07:14
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11Part 6 -Scene 3: (Epilogue) The garden of Levin's country estate. Months later.06:47