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Saturday, January 29, 2022
At The Opera, Opera Potpourri, January 29, 2022
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8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
Puccini
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
Verdi
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" by Sumi Jo & Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti
Mozart
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" by Sumi Jo & Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
Rossini
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Bizet
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
Leo Delibes
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
Puccini
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
Puccini
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
Verdi: Aida / Act 1 - "Celeste Aida" by Jon Vickers and Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Sir Georg Solti
Verdi
Verdi: Aida / Act 1 - "Celeste Aida" by Jon Vickers and Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Sir Georg Solti
Richard Wagner
The Ride of the Walkure
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan
9:00 p.m.
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
Von Flotow
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
Puccini
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Leoncavallo
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Mario Lanza
Puccini
TOSCA: Recondita armonia
RCA Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza
Puccini
TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle
RCA; Ray Sinatra, conductor Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza
Ponchielli
La Gioconda: Cielo e mar
RCA Mario Lanza
James King
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Tote Stadt Duet
; Götz Friedrich, conductor
Renata Tebaldi Mario del Monaco
Puccini
Manon Lescaut: Tu Tu amore tu
Santa Cecilia of Rome; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco
George London / Valerie Bak
TchTchaikovsky
Act 3 Duet Eugene Onegin
10:00 p.m.
Kiri te Kanawa
Hermann
Salaambo's Aria [Live]
Jurinac/Rothenberger/Schwarzkopf Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Anneliese Rothenberger, Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Karajan, from the 1962 film
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier presentation of The silver Rose Final Trio Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Anneliese Rothenberger, Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Karajan, from the 1962 film
Berlin Philharmonic Herbert von Karajan
Ingvar Wixell
Verdi
Rigoletto- Cortigiani
n/a; Fausto Cleva, conductor Ingvar Wixell
Lina Bruna Rasa
Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: Mascagni Conducts Voi lo sapete O Mamma
Giuseppe di Stefano
Rivi
Addio songi di gloria
New symphony Orchestra of London Dino Olivier - conductor
11:00 p.m.
John McCormach/Nellie Melba/Enrico Caruso
Puccini
Arias and Duet O soave fanciulla
Umberto Giordano
Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chenier - Vicino A Te S'acqueta
Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra; Giandrea Gavazzeni, conductor Renata Tebaldi / Mario Del Monaco
Renata Tebaldi Carlo Bergonzi
Puccini
Love Duet Act 1 Madama Butterfly
Luciano Pavarotti
Giacomo Puccini
Nessun dorma! Turandot - Puccini
; Edward Downs, conductor Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti
O Sole mio
Luciano Pavarotti
Torna e Surriento
Luciano Pavarotti
Mattinata
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
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