Music Credits

Music composed and selected by John Holland

Opera Selections:

Richard Wagner – The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin
Benjamin Britten – Billy Budd, Peter Grimes
Georges Bizet – The Pearl Fishers
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini
Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux
Giacomo Puccini – La Boheme, Tosca
Giuseppe Verdi – Ernani
Maurice Ravel – L’ Enfant et les sortileges
Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier
Igor Stravinsky – Oedipus Rex
Bela Bartok – Bluebeard’s Castle

Featured Voices:

Captain Nemo – Samuel Ramey (sung in Hungarian)
Ned Land – Thomas Hampson (sung in English)
Child – Francoise Ogeas (sung in French)
Island Maid – digitally modified computer voice
Charles Denver (vintage recording sung in Italian)*
Professor Aronax, Aronax’s daughter, Ned Land, Lt. Bond – composite of different operatic voices (sung in French, German, English, Italian)
Underwater Duet (Bizet) – John Aller, tenor; Gino Quilico, baritone
Island Love Duet (Puccini) – Mirella Freni, Soprano; Luciano Pavarotti
Funeral At Sea (Purcell) – Jessye Norman

Instrumental Selections:

Richard Wagner – Das Rhinegold (Prelude to Act I) from the Ring Cycle
Charles Dodge – Waves

Original Acoustic, Electronic, and Digital Music:

John Holland

Instrumental Solos:

Violin Solo (Holland) – played by Marla Rathbun
Bassoon Solo (Holland) – played by Janet Underhill
Percy Grainger Free Music No. 3 for Theremin – played by Lydia Kavina
Frederick Chopin Marche funebre from Sonata No. 2 in b minor Op. 35 for piano – played by Mauricio Pollini
Claude Debussy ‘God Save the King’ excerpt from Preludes Book II, No. IX for piano – played by Chrystian Zimmerman

* (singer’s name is unknown)

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