Volante Opera Tolkien

I rarely post in this thread as I seldom have anything not seen before. Today I can share my recent aquisition though. Paul Corfield Godfrey's excellent series of Middle-earth operas has been on my radar for a little while and being interested in classical and opera these sounded up my street.

The first CD is a standalone title: Akallabeth and Other Tolkien Works. This covers various songs, such as Strider, Song of the eagles, Shadow-Bride and others. It's style and tone clearly covers a wide period of time and that is explained in part by Corfield in the booklet which considering is small, is packed full of information.





I have listened to some of the first part so far, Feanor, and what I have heard so far is remarkable. This won't eb for everyone, but it is most certainly for me. Four parts of the Epic Scenes from The Silmarillion have been released so far (Feanor, Beren and Luthien, Beren and Luthien (PCG talks about Beren and Luthien), The Children of Hurin, and The Fall of Gondolin (PCG talks about his work on this title)), The Fall of Gondolin (PCG taks about FoG: Part 2, and the fifth (War of Wrath) in the series will be released next month. The covers for the four epic scenes titles are beautiful, of course as they are from Ted Nasmith.


More details about Paul Corfiled Godfrey's work can be found at his website and those interested can catch Paul's talk from Tolkien 20019.