eShop USA > Music > Ça Ira
Ça Ira
Our Price: $24.98 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969643921
Format: Enhanced
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 96439
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Studio: Sony
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to see that he's written what he calls as an opera. But don't be fooled: Waters's work has little to do with contemporary operas by the likes of John Adams or John Corigliano--even if the latter's 1991 The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, just as Waters's Ça Ira takes place during the French queen's last years, as the French Revolution unfurls. Based on a clunky libretto by Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, the show could have been a successful musical theater-opera hybrid in the vein of Sweeney Todd but it falls closer to Andrew Lloyd Webber's historical pageants, without their recognizable melodies. Thankfully the cast holds the material aloft, especially Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (no stranger to the world of musical theater, as shown on albums such as his tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Chinese soprano Ying Huang. Note that this version comes as a double SACD set that includes a making-of DVD and a 60-page booklet. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
More Stage Shows from Rock Artists
We Will Rock You: Rock Theatrical |
The Rocky Horror Show |
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds |
Tommy |
The Wall |
Godspell |
Roger Waters has long been known for his musical ambition. The bassist and leader of Pink Floyd made that band famous in the 1970s and 1980s with concept-heavy albums as well as a certain self-aggrandizing image--attributes he maintained in his solo career. No wonder, then, to see that he's written what he calls as an opera. But don't be fooled: Waters's work has little to do with contemporary operas by the likes of John Adams or John Corigliano--even if the latter's 1991 The Ghosts of Versailles is set in Marie-Antoinette's Versailles, just as Waters's Ça Ira takes place during the French queen's last years, as the French Revolution unfurls. Based on a clunky libretto by Etienne and Nadine Roda-Gil, the show could have been a successful musical theater-opera hybrid in the vein of Sweeney Todd but it falls closer to Andrew Lloyd Webber's historical pageants, without their recognizable melodies. Thankfully the cast holds the material aloft, especially Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (no stranger to the world of musical theater, as shown on albums such as his tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Chinese soprano Ying Huang. Note that this version comes as a double SACD set that includes a making-of DVD and a 60-page booklet. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
More Stage Shows from Rock Artists
We Will Rock You: Rock Theatrical |
The Rocky Horror Show |
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds |
Tommy |
The Wall |
Godspell |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Worth the investment
A must for any Roger Waters fan. There is also a very good DVD inside that shows the making of the opera. Roger Waters as you have never seen him before.
Rating: - Worth it
Some aspects of "Ca ira":
NOT A REAL SOLO ALBUM
It's remarkable that, from a creative standpoint, and contrary to what he uses to do, this is not really a one-man Waters album: the original French libretto was written by his two late French friends Etienne and Nadine Rhoda-Gil; and the orchestration and choral arrangements were provided by Rick Wentworth. Like Paul McCartney, Waters cannot read or write traditional scores. Of course, everything must be approved by the mastermind, ... Read More
Rating: - WOW
I just wonder how he can do it. I used to believe that (the Wall) was the best Album ever to be made, but here comes Ca Ira, it is a work of a genius , it took a couple of times to get used to it first because I was never an Opera fan & now I can not stop listening to it.
This is Roger waters at his best, and the Musicians are world class
.
Rating:  - The Emporer has no clothes
This is ordinary & mediocre. The sound effects and the 5.1 surround are good but that is the beginning and end of anything dynamic. The music is lifeless. I had almost no expectations for this and I'm still very disappointed. I couldn't listen to all of the first disc I won't bother with the 2nd. Roger Waters ran out of anything to say years ago. (unless he is trying to say the magic is gone but the suckers want more product)
Rating: - BOSE Owners
This Hybrid versions will NOT play on your BOSE Lifestyle or 321 systems...be warned. I didn't know and had to return it. I contacted BOSE and they informed of this same info. Sony technology.
Related Categories:
| |
 |
