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The Metal Opera: Pt 1 and 2 – Gold Edition

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Released
  
March 6, 2008

Artist
  
Avantasia

Label
  
AFM Records GmbH

Recorded
  
2000 - 2001

Release date
  
6 March 2008

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Length
  
1:58:25 (each album lasts 59:12)

Producer
  
Tobias Sammet Norman Meiritz

The Metal Opera Pt 1 & 2 - Gold Edition (2008)
  
The Wicked Symphony (2010)

Genres
  
Symphonic metal, Power metal

Similar
  
Avantasia albums, Power metal albums

The Metal Opera: Pt 1 & 2 – Gold Edition is a box set by Avantasia, released through the band's former label AFM Records on March 6, 2008. The set contains Avantasia's first two albums (The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera Part II) on two gold CDs, a 44-page booklet with the storyline, rare photos, liner notes, and an interview with project mastermind Tobias Sammet; all inside a luxury leather box.

Contents

CD 1

  1. Prelude
  2. Reach Out for the Light
  3. Serpents in Paradise
  4. Malleus Maleficarum
  5. Breaking Away
  6. Farewell
  7. The Glory of Rome
  8. In Nomine Patris
  9. Avantasia
  10. A New Dimension
  11. Inside
  12. Sign of the Cross
  13. The Tower
  14. Avantasia (bonus radio single)

CD 2

  1. The Seven Angels
  2. No Return
  3. The Looking Glass
  4. In Quest for
  5. The Final Sacrifice
  6. Neverland
  7. Anywhere
  8. Chalice of Agony
  9. Memory
  10. Into the Unknown
  11. Sign of the Cross (Live bonus track) - Audio
  12. Sign of the Cross (Live bonus track) - Video

Personnel (The Avantasians)

  • Tobias Sammet - (bass, keyboards, vocals)
  • Henjo Richter - (guitar)
  • Markus Grosskopf - (bass)
  • Alex Holzwarth - (drums)
  • Michael Kiske - (vocals)
  • Andre Matos - (vocals)
  • Bob Catley - (vocals)
  • Kai Hansen - (vocals)
  • David Defeis - (vocals)
  • Rob Rock - (vocals)
  • Oliver Hartmann - (vocals)
  • Sharon Den Adel - (vocals)
  • Ralf Zdiarstek - (vocals)
  • Timo Tolkki - (guitar, vocals)
  • Jens Ludwig - (guitar)
  • Norman Meiritz - (guitar)
  • Frank Tischer - (keyboards)
  • Songs

    1Prelude1:11
    2Reach Out for the Light6:33
    3Serpents in Paradise6:16

    References

    The Metal Opera: Pt 1 & 2 – Gold Edition Wikipedia