2025

operas

Giuseppe Verdi

Music, piano, prog. strings, mix: Vicente Bueso

Moon

Music, piano, prog. strings, prog. orchestra, mix: Vicente Bueso

Yearning

I want to feel your soul inside me.
It can be real, with the whole world behind me.

Is there anybody out there?
Can you read me, loud and clear?

I feel all that remains.
I feel all that contains

Is nothing at all.

I want to feel your fire ignite me.
“It can be real,” said the darkness, “delight me.”

Is there anybody out there?
Can you read me, loud and clear?

I feel all that remains.
I feel all that contains

Is nothing at all.

I’ve got a feeling there’s nothing out there.

Credits:

Brad Astra: Guitars, Bass, Percussion, & Soundscapes
Nayeli Astra: Vox, Hurdy-Gurdy, Guitar, Synths, & Dreams

Special Thanks:
To the ravens who guided our melodies, the universe for its endless inspiration, and to everyone who has been part of this journey. This music collection is dedicated to those who dream with their eyes open.

In Loving Memory:
To Rio, who always listened.

Recorded at:
Nude Studio, Calgary, Alberta

Artwork by: Brad Astra
Photography by: Brad Astra

Released under Painful Records Ltd.

© 2024 The Miracle Syndicate. All rights reserved.

Produced by Brad Astra

That Feeling

Bonjour à tous, Créée en 1982 avec le groupe Éphémère." Face à l'univers " est  une ode intemporelle à l’amour, à la résilience et à la lumière qui nous unit, même face aux plus grandes distances.

Interprète                Éphémère
Paroles                    Laurentides Music
Composition : 	Laurentides Music
Arrangements : 	Laurentides Music
Copyright : 		Laurentides Music 2025

Face à l'univers, une ode intemporelle à la résilience et à la lumière qui nous unit

Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 - Third movement  - Andante (E major) (1875)
Quarteto Sagarana -
Roberta Arruda & Ana Zivkovic - Violins
Mikhail Bugaev - Viola
Philip Hansey - Cello
Live recording - Sala Watari, Barão Geraldo, Campinas SP - December 7th 2019
Illustration - Georges Braque

Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3; Third movement - Sagarana Quartet - Campinas - 2019

Richard Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) - 1843
The Dutchman	bass-baritone	- Tomasz Konieczny
Senta, Daland's daughter	high dramatic soprano	- Ricarda Merbeth
Daland, a Norwegian sea captain	bass - Günther Groissböck
Erik, a huntsman	tenor -	Michael Weinius
Mary, Senta's nurse   contralto - Agnes Zwierko
Daland's steersman	tenor - Thomas Atkins
Conductor - Hannu Lintu
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris
Live recording - Opéra de la Bastille - Paris - France - October 28 2021
Illustration - Ludolf Backhuisen

Richard Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander - Paris - 2021

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - opera in three acts (1851)
Libreto by Francesco Maria Piave
Rigoletto, the Duke's jester	baritone	Ludovic Tézier
Gilda, his daughter	soprano	Nadine Sierra
Duke of Mantua	tenor	Dmitry Korchak
Sparafucile, a murderer for hire	bass	Goderdzi Janelidze
Maddalena, his sister	contralto	Justina Gringytė
Giovanna, Gilda's Nurse	mezzo-soprano	Cassandre Berthon
Count Ceprano	bass	
Countess Ceprano, his wife	mezzo-soprano	Izabella Wnorowska-Pluchart
Matteo Borsa, a courtier	tenor	Angelo Zuliani
Count Monterone	baritone	Bogdan Talos
Marullo	baritone	Jean-Luc Ballestra
A Court Usher	bass	Pierpaolo Palloni
A Page	mezzo-soprano	Lise Nougier
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Conductor - Giacomo Sagripanti
Live recording - Opéra de la Bastille - Paris - France - October 29 2021
Illustration - Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - Paris 2021

Gioachino Rossini - Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (Signor Bruschino, or The Accidental Son) - one act operatic farce (farsa giocosa per musica) - 1813
Libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Gaudenzio - Savio Sperandio
Sofia - Lina Mendes
Bruschino padre - Saulo Javan
Bruschino figlio - Eduardo Gutierrez
Florville - Daniel Umbelino
Un delegato di polizia - Fellipe Oliveira
Filiberto - Gustavo Lassen
Marianna - Fernanda Nagashima
Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro
Regente - Claudio Cruz
Live recording - Theatro São Pedro - São Paulo, SP - Brazil - December 11 2021
Illustration - Louis Léopold Boilly

Gioachino Rossini - Il signor Bruschino - São Paulo - 2021

Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) opera in one act (1918)
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.
Conductor - Oksana Lyniv
Suor Angelica - Serena Farnocchia
La zia principessa - Violeta Urmana
Suora zelatrice - Sarah Laulan
La badessa- Julie Bailly
La maestra delle novizie - Aurore Bureau
Suor Genovieffa - Morgane Heyse
Suor MariaUna cercatrice
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Live recording - Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Liège, Brussels, February 06 2022
Illustration - Carlo Maratta


Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica - Liège - 2021

Gabriel Fauré - La bonne chanson Op. 61 - Complete cycle (1894)
Lyrics by Paul Verlaine
"Une sainte en son auréole"
"Puisque l'aube grandit"
"La lune blanche luit dans les bois"
"J'allais par des chemins perfides"
"J'ai presque peur, en vérité"
"Avant que tu ne t'en ailles"
"Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été"
"N'est-ce pas?"
"L'hiver a cessé"
Mark Padmore, tenor
Simon Lepper, Piano
Live recording - Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, February 7, 2022
Illustration - Edgar Maxence


Gabriel Fauré - La bonne chanson - Brussels - 2025

Giuseppe Verdi - Overture from La Forza del Destino (1869)
Conductor - Abel Rocha
Orquestra Sinfônica de Santo Andre
Live recording - Teatro Sérgio Cardoso, São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 27 2022
Illustration - Édouard Manet

Giuseppe Verdi - Overture from La Forza del Destino - São Paulo - 2025

Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata
Segundo Ato
Violetta - Ainhoa Arteta
Alfredo - Marcelo Giordani
Germont - Kim Josephson
Conductor - Maurizio Barberini
Live - 1996

Verdi - La Traviata - Ainhoa Arteta - Ato 2 Completo - 1996

Giuseppe Verdi - Simon Boccanegra - 1999
Live

Simon Boccanegra........Alexandru Agache
Amelia..................Karita Mattila
Gabriele Adorno.........Michael Sylvester
Jacopo Fiesco...........Paul Plishka
Paolo Albiani...........Haijing Fu


Conductor...............James Levine

Giuseppe Verdi - Simon Boccanegra - Agache - Mattila - 1999 - Live

Giuseppe Verdi - Il Trovatore - Live - 1999
New York

Manrico.................Richard Margison
Leonora.................Michèle Crider
Count Di Luna...........Alexandru Agache
Azucena.................Elena Zaremba
Ferrando................Paul Plishka
Conductor...............Jun Märkl

Giuseppe Verdi - Il Trovatore - Live - 1999

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - Live 1999


Rigoletto...............Franz Grundheber
Gilda...................Andrea Rost
Duca di Mantova ..........Ramón Vargas
Maddalena...............Graciela Araya
Sparafucile.............Eric Halfvarson
Conductor...............Maurizio Benini

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - Live 1999

Giuseppe Verdi - Otello
Opera in 4 acts (1887)
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
Live recording - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo - São Paulo - 1997 August 26
Otello - Kristján Jóhannesson
Desdemona - Dimitra Theodossiou
Jago - Renato Bruson
Cassio - Fernando Portari
Roderigo - Marcelo Vanucci
Emilia - Magda Paino
Ludovico - Pepes do Valle
Montano - José Gallisa
Arauto - Carlos Eduardo Marcos
Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo 
Coral Lírico
Conductor	Isaac Karabtchevsky
Illustration - Lovis Corinth
libretto here: http://www.murashev.com/opera/Otello_libretto_English_Italian

Giuseppe Verdi - Overture from La Forza del Destino - São Paulo - 2025

Jorge Coli