From well-loved arias to new discoveries, this recording journeys through over a century of opera, with transcriptions for cello and orchestra stretching from Mozart to Puccini and including Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Offenbach.

The curtain goes up on some of Ophélie Gaillard’s favourite pieces, which explore human passions through the voice of the cello, that most human of instruments.

• Bellini: Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi)
• Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)
• Mozart: Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620)
• Mozart: Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni)
• Mozart: Deh! vieni alla finestra (from Don Giovanni)
• Offenbach: Air de la Griserie (from La Périchole)
• Offenbach: Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann )
• Offenbach: Scintille, diamant (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
• Puccini: E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)
• Puccini: Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)
• Rossini: Fantasy on William Tell
• Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)
• Tchaikovsky: Podrugi milyye (from The Queen of Spades)
• Verdi: Ella giammai m'amò (from Don Carlo)
• Verdi: Un di, se ben rammentomi... Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto)
• Wagner: O du, mein holder Abendstern (from Tannhäuser)