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The Lost Opera is an album by the Korean soprano Kimera (Hong Hee Kim or Kim Hong-Hee) and the Operaiders with the London Symphony Orchestra. Consisting of snatches of popular operatic arias and choruses against a disco beat, in the style of Hooked on Classics, it was released in 1984 by the record label Redbus. Whilst not a major UK success, it spent some sixteen weeks in the French charts. It was repackaged in a style more disco than classical in 1985 and reissued with the title "Hits On Opera", and with a more techno-style cover illustration, but gaining little additional interest. Being neither one thing nor the other, however, its audience was bound to be divided and it may be regarded as an experiment belonging to its time.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Caro nome" (Verdi from Rigoletto)
2. "Operature 1" (J. Fiddy from "The Lost Opera")
3. "Overture - Madame Butterfly" (Puccini)
4. "Ah non giunge" (Bellini from La Sonnambula)
5. "Nun's Chorus" (J. Strauss from Casanova)
6. "La Donna è Mobile" (Verdi from Rigoletto)
7. "Excerpt - Vesti La Giubba" (Leoncavallo from I Pagliacci)
8. "Holle rache" (Mozart from The Magic Flute)
9. "Largo al Factotum" (Rossini from The Barber of Seville)
10. "Chanson Boheme" (Bizet from Carmen)
11. "J'ai Perdu Mon Eurydice" (Gluck from Orpheus)
12. "Couplets - Escamillo's song" (Bizet from Carmen)
13. "Operature 2" (J. Fiddy from "The Lost Opera")
14. "Air des Clochettes" (Delibes from Lakme)
15. "Reprise - Caro Nome" (Verdi from Rigoletto)

Side Two

1. "Operature 3" (J. Fiddy from "The Lost Opera")
2. "Sempre libera" (Verdi from La Traviata)
3. "Humming chorus" (Puccini from Madame Butterfly)
4. "L'Amour est un Oiseau (Habanera)" (Bizet from Carmen)
5. "Operature 4" (J. Fiddy from "The Lost Opera")
6. "The Flower Duet" (Delibes from Lakme)
7. "Va pensiero" (Verdi from Nabucco)
8. "Prelude Nº 1" (J.S Bach)
9. "Ave Maria" (Schubert/Storck)
10. "Ave Maria" (J.S. Bach/Gounod)
11. "Un Bel Di" (Puccini from Madame Butterfly)

Personnel

• Kimera - Lead Vocals
• John Fiddy - Arranger
• Steve Rowland - Producer
• Joe Glasman - Keyboards<ref>Joe Glasman - Composer</ref
• The Ambrosian Singers - Chorus

References

1. it charted for one week at #95
2. The Milarus Mansion - John Fiddy

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