Charles Gounod - La Reine de Saba (2001)

CD1
1. La reine de Saba, opera: Introduction 
2. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 1. Que cette main-vous donne l'ètre 
3. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 1. Comme la naissante aurore 	
4. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 1. Maître! 
5. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 1. Gloire à toi, divine princesse			play 	
6. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 1. Le monde a retenti du bruit 	
7. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 2. Faiblesse de la race humaine! 	
8. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 2. Maître! 	
9. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 2. De votre devine présence 	
10. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 3. Dejà l'aube matinale 	
11. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 3. Mes fille, allez	Listen
12. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 3. Me volià seule enfin! 	
13. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 3. Adoniram! ... Balkis! 
14. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 3. Mon Maître

CD2
1. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Soliman, notre Roi 
2. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Ballet. Allegro 
3. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Ballet. Moderato 	
4. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Ballet. Andante Moderato 
5. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Ballet. Allegretto 
6. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Ballet. Mouvement de Valse 				play	
7. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. La Reine? ... Sous les pieds d'une femme 	
8. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Hâtez-vous de parler 
9. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Seigneur! Adoniram s'avance 
10. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Un rebelle Dedaigne mes bienfaits 	
11. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 4. Elle est en mon pouvoir 	
12. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 5. C'est ici! 	
13. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 5. La foudre gronde! 
14. La reine de Saba, opera: Act 5. Ó terreur!

La Regina Balkis - Federica Scaini
Benoni - Anna Lucia Alessio
Sarahil - Annalisa Carbonara
Adoniram - Jeon-Won Lee
Il Re Soliman - Luca Grassi
Amrou - Salvatore Cordella
Phanor - Jean Vendassi
Methousael - Pietro Naviglio
Sadoc - Volodymyr Deyneka

Coro da Camera di Bratislava
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
Manlio Benzi - conductor, 2001

La reine de Saba ("The Queen of Sheba") is a grand opera in four or five acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's Le voyage en Orient. It was premiered at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera on February 28, 1862.

An English reworking of the libretto by Henry Farnie "interwoven [with] certain legends and traditions of freemasonry" was titled Irene. It transposed the action to Istanbul in the time of Suleyman the Magnificent and the building of the Great Mosque and used almost all of Gounod's music.

The big song from La reine de Saba is the tenor aria 'Inspirez-moi, race divine!', in which the hero invokes the example of the sons of Tubal-Cain (son of Lamech and Zillah, the founder of metalworking) as the molten metal flows into its mould. In its English version 'How vain and weak a thing is man... Lend me your aid, O race divine', this became a war-horse of the concert repertoire, surviving into the 20th century in the recordings of Edward Lloyd and Walter Widdop. It was also recorded by Enrico Caruso, in one of whose versions the English text was re-translated back into French with the exceptionable formula: 'Prêtes-moi ton aide'.

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