L'enchanteur

You just have to listen to this double album to understand what is so magical about the voice of Roberto Alagna. For sheer vocal panache, try Verdi's Il trovatore; for pure emotion, Puccini's La Bohème or Massenet's Manon; for the less familiar there's the original version of Verdi's Don Carlos or Donizetti's Lucie de Lammermoor, the French version of the opera, or Puccini's La Rondine. For exemplary diction, listen to Massenet's Werther or Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. And there is even an example of the popular music style that he approaches with such panache, 'Tonight, tonight' from Bernstein's West Side Story. There's no question: Roberto Alagna is the kind of opera singer who can sing for all with such infectious pleasure that all we can do is sit back and enjoy.