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The Metropolitan Opera centennial gala

Deutsche Grammophon, c2009

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Chiefly for voice(s) and orchestra; for mixed chorus (disc 1: 8th); for orchestra (disc 2: 4th)

Sung in Italian (disc 1: 2nd-8th, 11t-12th, and 14th. disc 2: 2nd, 5th, 7th-8th, and 12th), German (disc 1: 9th and 13th. disc 2: 10th), French (disc 1: 10th. disc 2: 3rd, 6th and 9th), and English (disc 2: 13th); with Italian (disc 1: 2nd-8th, 11t-12th, and 14th. disc 2: 2nd, 5th, 7th-8th, and 12th), English, German, French, Spanish, and Chinese subtitles

Title from label

Kathleen Battle, Gail Dubinbaum, José Carreras, Renato Bruson, Ara Berberian, soloists ; other soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus (disc 1: 8th work. disc 2: 8th) ; Metropolitan Opera Ballet (disc 2: 4th) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Leonard Bernstein (disc 2: 1st), Richard Bonynge (disc 1: 5th-7th), Thomas Fulton (disc 2: 5th), James Levine (disc 1: 1st-4th and 11th-14th. disc 2: 2nd, 4th, and 6th-12th), Sir John Pritchard (disc 2: 3rd), David Stivender (disc 1: 8th), Jeffrey Tate (disc 1: 9th-10th), conductors ; other players

Credits: Music director, James Levine ; executive producer, Michael Bronson ; director, Kirk Browning

Recorded: Live from the Met, 22 October 1983

DVD

Bonus: Picture Gallery

Deutsche Grammophon: 00440 073 4538 (00440 073 4575--00440 073 4576)

Contents of Works

  • disc 1. The bartered bride. Overture / Bedřich Smetana
  • Turandot. "In questa reggia" / Giacomo Puccini
  • Le nozze di Figaro. "E Susanna non vien--Dove sono i bei momenti" / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Otello. "Dio! mi potevi scagliar" / Giuseppe Verdi
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia. "La calunnia è un venticello" / Gioacchino Rossini
  • Lucia di Lammermoor. "Chi mi frena in tal momento?" / Gaetano Donizetti
  • Semiramide. "Bel raggio lusinghier" / Gioacchino Rossini
  • Iris. Prelude--"Son io! Son io la vita!" / Pietro Mascagni
  • Der Rosenkavalier. "Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren" / Richard Strauss
  • Roméo et Juliette. "Va! je t'ai pardonné--Nuit d'hyménée" / Charles Gounod
  • L'elisir d'amore. "Una furtiva lagrima" / Gaetano Donizetti
  • Ernani. "Surta è la notte--Ernani! Ernani, involami" / Giuseppe Verdi
  • Der Rosenkavalier. "Hab mir's gelobt" / Richard Strauss
  • Otello. "Già nella notte densa" / Giuseppe Verdi
  • disc 2. Overture "Leonore III" / Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Andrea Chénier. "Vicino a te s'acqueta l'irrequieta anima" / Umberto Giordano
  • L'enfant prodigue. "L'année en vain chasse l'année!" / Claude Debussy
  • Samson et Dalila. Bacchanale / Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Nabucco. "Donna, chi sei?" / Giuseppe Verdi
  • Faust. "Alerte! ou vous êtes perdus!" / Charles Gounod
  • Madama Butterfly. "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malìa" / Giacomo Puccini
  • L'italiana in Algeri. "Pria di dividerci da voi, signore" / Gioacchino Rossini
  • Samson et Dalila. "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" / Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Tristan und Isolde. "Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen" / Richard Wagner
  • "Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var" = "When I was seventeen" : Swedish folk song
  • Un ballo in maschera. "Teco io sto"--"Gran Dio!" / Giuseppe Verdi
  • "Happy birthday to you, dear Met!"

Details

  • NCID
    BB18246883
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    itaenggerfrespachi
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    Hamburg
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 videodiscs (231 min.)
  • Size
    12 cm.
  • Attached Material
    1 pamphlet (15 p. ; 18 cm.)
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