ROGER WATERS - CA IRA (2 x HYBRID SACD5.1)

Finally another SACD from Sony, and it’s going to be a good one, guaranteed. The lavish first edition of 'Ca Ira,' an opera in three acts for full orchestra, soloists and choirs, will include a double SACD DigiPack and a deluxe 60 page four-color booklet including Roger Waters' lyrics based on Etienne Roda-Gil's original French libretto, the original illustrations created by Nadine Roda-Gil, biographies of Waters and the opera's cast, background and production notes on the opera. As a bonus for Roger Waters fans, 'Ca Ira' includes a special DVD documentary chronicling the 'making of' the opera. The 'Ca Ira' DVD traces the history of the project, from conception to completion, and includes revelatory interviews with Waters and the musicians and cast of 'Ca Ira' as well as exclusive in-the-studio footage of the recording of the opera.

  1.    Ca Ira - Opera in Three Acts 
  2.    The Gathering Storm 
  3.    Overture 
  4.    A Garden in Vienna 1765 
  5.    'Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine...' 
  6.    Kings, Sticks and Birds 
  7.    'Honest bird, simple bird...' 
  8.    'I want to be King...' 
  9.    'Let us break all the shields...' 
  10.    The Grievances of the People 
  11.    France in Disarray 
  12.    'To laugh is to know how to live...' 
  13.    'Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at your door...' 
  14.    The Fall of the Bastille 
  15.    'To freeze in the dead of night...' 
  16.    'So to the streets in the pouring rain...' 
  17.    Dances and Marches 
  18.    'Now Hear Ye!...' 
  19.    'Flushed with wine...' 
  20.    The Letter 
  21.    'My dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain...' 
  22.    'The ship of state is all at sea...' 
  23.    Silver, Sugar and Indigo 
  24.    'To the Windward Isles...' 
  25.    The Papal Edict 
  26.    'In Paris there's a rumble under the ground...' 
  27.    The Fugitive King 
  28.    'But the Marquis of Boulli has a trump card up his sleeve...' 
  29.    'To take your hat off...' 
  30.    'The echoes never fade from that fusillade...' 
  31.    The Commune de Paris 
  32.    'Vive la Commune de Paris...' 
  33.    'The National Assembly is confused...' 
  34.    The Execution of Louis Capet 
  35.    'Adieu Louis for you it's over...' 
  36.    Marie Antoinette - The Last Night on Earth 
  37.    'Adieu my good and tender sister...' 
  38.    Liberty 
  39.    'And in the bushes where they survive...'