2005 - Ça Ira

[Botley]

Release date: September 26th, 2005

Ça Ira/There Is Hope is a classical opera in three acts, which concerns the French Revolution. Roger Waters adapted the original French libretto by Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gil into English. He also composed all of the music, orchestrating and producing a double-CD recording with the help of Rick Wentworth.

A three-disc deluxe set was also made available, featuring hybrid SACD 5.1 surround sound, more of Nadine's beautiful illustrations in the libretto booklet and a making-of DVD directed by Live at Pompeii's visionary Adrian Maben. A French version has also been released in Canada.

Tracks:

• The Gathering Storm
• Overture
• Act One, Scene 1: A Garden In Vienna, 1765
• "Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine"
• Act One, Scene 2: Kings, Sticks and Birds
• "Honest Bird, Simple Bird"
• "I Want to Be King"
• "Let Us Break All the Shields"
• Act One, Scene 3: The Grievances of the People
• Act One, Scene 4: France in Disarray
• "To Laugh Is to Know How to Live"
• "Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at Your Door"
• Act One, Scene 5: The Fall of the Bastille
• "To Freeze in the Dead of Night"
• "So to the Streets in the Pouring Rain"
• Act Two, Scene 1: Dances and Marches
• "Now Hear Ye!"
• "Flushed With Wine"
• Act Two, Scene 2: The Letter
• "My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain"
• "The Ship of State Is All at Sea"
• Act Two, Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo
• "To the Windward Isles"
• Act Two, Scene 4: The Papal Edict
• "In Paris, There's A Rumble Underground"

• Act Three, Scene 1: The Fugitive King
• "But the Marquis of Boulli Has A Trump Card up His Sleeve"
• "To Take Your Hat Off"
• "The Echoes Never Fade from That Fusillade"
• Act Three, Scene 2: Commune de Paris
• "Vive La Commune de Paris"
• "The Assembly Is Confused"
• Act Three, Scene 3: The Execution of Louis Capet
• "Adieu Loius, For You It's Over"
• Act Three, Scene 4: Marie Antoinette - The Last Night on Earth
• "Adieu, My Good and Tender Sister"
• Act Three, Scene 5: Liberty
• "And in the Bushes, Where They Survive"

Total Playing Time: 108:29

Musicians Featured:

• Rick Wentworth - Conductor
• Ying Huang, Paul Groves, Bryn Terfel, Ismaël Lô, Jamie Bower, Helen Russill, Terry Edwards - Soloists
• Michael McCarthy - Choirmaster (The London Oratory Choir)
• Roy Gregory - Children's Choirmaster (Italia Conti Children's Choir)