The Metropolitan Opera - Centennial Gala - October 22, 1983

The Metropolitan Opera - Centennial Gala - October 22, 1983

DVD - English Subs - 1h52 & 1H58 -


Part 1:
The Bartered Bride: Overture
Turandot: In questa reggia, Eva Marton
Le Nozze di Figaro: Dove sono, Kiri Te Kanawa
Otello: Dio mi potevi, James McCracken
Conductor: James Levine
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: La calunnia, Ruggero Raimondi
Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet, Roberta Peters, Loretta Di Franco, Dano Raffanti, Robert Nagy, Brian Schexnayder, Julien Robbins
Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier, Joan Sutherland
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
Iris: Hymn of the Sun, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Conductor David Stivender
Der Rosenkavalier: Presentation of the Rose, Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade
Roméo et Juliette: Nuit d'hyménée, Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus
Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima, Nicolai Gedda
Ernani: Ernani, involami, Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Der Rosenkavalier: Final Trio, Kathleen Battle, Elisabeth Söderström, Frederica von Stade
Otello: Love Duet, Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo

Part 2:
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Conductor...............Leonard Bernstein [Last appearance]
Andrea Chénier: Final Duet, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras
Conductor: James Levine
L'Enfant Prodigue: Air de Lia, Ileana Cotrubas
Conductor: John Pritchard
Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale, Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa, Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Conductor: James Levine
Nabucco: Donna chi sei, Grace Bumbry, Renato Bruson
Conductor: Thomas Fulton
Faust: Final Trio, Katia Ricciarelli, William Lewis, Nicolai Ghiaurov
Madama Butterfly: Love Duet, Leona Mitchell, Giuliano Ciannella
L'Italiana in Algeri: Act I Finale, Diane Kesling, Edda Moser, Gail Dubinbaum, David Rendall, John Darrenkamp, Sesto Bruscantini [Last appearance], Ara Berberian
Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, Marilyn Horne
Tristan und Isolde: Narrative and Curse
Lillijebjorn: I remember when I was seventeen [Encore], Birgit Nilsson [Last appearance]
Un Ballo in Maschera: Teco io sto, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Conductor James Levine