Michael Amante [Audio CD] Amerio, Danilo; Bixio, Cesare Andrea; Capua, Eduardo di; Curtis, Ernesto de; Lara, Agustin; Puccini, Giacomo; Verdi, Giuseppe; Timothy Vernon; Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Michael Amante

Alongside the three tenor posses, the dashing Michael Amante is poised to make opera palatable to the mainstream. Amante is bold enough to take on scores from Tosca, La Bohème, Turandot, and Aida, and he postures himself a swell prince on his self-titled debut. Possessed of a powerfully buoyant voice that is tenderly youthful yet richly resonant, Amante charms with the playful "La Donna e Mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto and gives a cinematic and masculine cowboy-booted rendering of "Addio Fiorito Asil" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly. He sings like the angel Gabriel on the selection from Aida and smolders on the slick and regally produced "Ho Bisogno d'amore," a love song delivered in Italian and English. Amante is a heartthrob waiting to happen on a large scale. --Paige La Grone

Label: Medalist Entertainment – 60022
Format: CD
Publisher: Medalist
UPC: 805386002224
EAN: 0805386002224
Release Date: 05-06-2001
Languages: English
Genre: Pop, Classical

1 Addio Fiorito Asil
2 Che Gelida Manina
3 La Donna E Mobile
4 Mamma
5 Nessun Dorma
6 O Sole Mio
7 Recondita Armonia
8 Celeste Aida
9 Granada
10 E Lucevan Le Stelle
11 Non Ti Scordar Di Me
12 Torna A Surriento
13 Ho Bisogno D'Amore