EVENINGS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC - BAHRAIN - |
PROGRAMME FOR 3 DECEMBER 2003 |
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala held on 22 October 1983 |
This historic and mammoth gala concert (it was around 8 hours long in total ... 4 hours during the day and 4 hours during the evening) included most of the greatest singers of the second half of the 20th century. Some of them were starts in (semi-)retirement, some were stars at the peak of their career, and some were stars still in the making. In any event, it was a remarkable affair, and certainly the longest and most prestigious opera concert ever. Below you will find two listings: 1) The list of highlighted items that will be shown during this music evening. 2) The complete gala listing (for your information and reference purposes). |
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HIGHLIGHTS for the Music Evening of 3 December 2003 From the First (Day) Session 1. Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Overture 2. Puccini: Turandot - In questa reggia Eva Marton 3. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Dove sono Kiri Te Kanawa 4. Verdi: Otello - Dio! mi potevi scagliar James McCracken 5. Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - La calunnia Ruggero Raimondi 6. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Sextet Roberta Peters; Loretta di Franco; Dano Raffanti; Robert Nagy; Brian Schexnayder; Julien Robbins 7. Rossini: Semiramide - Bel raggio lusinghier Joan Sutherland 8. Mascagni: Iris - Prelude and Hymn to the Sun 9. R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Presentation of the Rose Judith Blegen; Frederica von Stade 10. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette - Nuit d'hyménée Catherine Malfitano; Alfredo Kraus 11. Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore - Una furtiva lagrima Nicolai Gedda 12. Verdi: Ernani - Ernani involami Anna Tomowa-Sintow 13. R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Final Trio Kathleen Battle; Elisabeth Söderström; Frederica von Stade 14. Verdi: Otello - Già nella notte densa Mirella Freni; Plácido Domingo From the Second (Evening) Session 15. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 16. Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Vicino a te Montserrat Caballé; José Carreras 17. Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue - L'année en vain chasse l'année Ileana Cotrubas 18. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale 19. Verdi: Nabucco - Donna chi sei Grace Bumbry; Renato Bruson For the rest of the Gala, the following honoured guests (opera stars of yesteryear) were seated on stage: Mme. Rose Bampton, Erna Berger, Kitty Carlisle, Helen Jepson, Dorothy Kirsten, Brenda Lewis, Martha Lipton, Zinka Milanov, Patrice Munsel, Jarmila Novotna, Nell Rankin, Delia Rigal, Margaret Roggero, Stella Roman, Bidú Sayão, Eleanor Steber, Risë Stevens Messrs. Lorenzo Alvary, Gabor Carelli, Walter Cassel, Ferruccio Tagliavini, George Shirley, Theodor Uppman, Cesare Valletti, Ramon Vinay. 20. Gounod: Faust - Final Trio Katia Ricciarelli, William Lewis, Nicolai Ghiaurov 21. Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Bimba dagli occhi Leona Mitchell; Giuliano Ciannella 22. Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri - Pria di dividerci (septet) Diane Kesling; Edda Moser; Gail Dubinbaum; David Rendall; John Darrenkamp; Sesto Bruscantini; Ara Berberian 23. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila - Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix Marilyn Horne 24. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen Birgit Nilsson 25. Swedish Folksong: I remember when I was seventeen Birgit Nilsson 26. Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Teco io sto Leontyne Price; Luciano Pavarotti 27. Happy Birthday Entire Company The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra were conducted by: James Levine; Richard Bonynge; David Stivender; Jeffrey Tate; Leonard Bernstein; John Pritchard; Thomas Fulton |
COMPLETE GALA (the blue coloured items are the additional items) First Session - Day Greeting by Anthony Bliss 1. Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Overture 2. Puccini: Turandot - In questa reggia Eva Marton 3. Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1 Duet Jessye Norman; Jess Thomas 4. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Dove sono Kiri Te Kanawa 5. Bizet: Carmen - Quintet Isola Jones; Shirley Love; Louise Wohlafka; Charles Anthony; James Courtney 6. Verdi: Otello - Dio! mi potevi scagliar James McCracken 7. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Bess you is my woman now Evelyn Lear; Thomas Stewart 8. Bizet: Carmen - Habanera Régine Crespin 9. Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - La calunnia Ruggero Raimondi 10. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Sextet Roberta Peters; Loretta di Franco; Dano Raffanti; Robert Nagy; Brian Schexnayder; Julien Robbins 11. Man of La Mancha - I am I, Don Quixote ... Dulcinea ... The impossible dream James Morris 12. Rossini: Semiramide - Bel raggio lusinghier Joan Sutherland 13. Mascagni: Iris - Prelude and Hymn to the Sun 14. R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Presentation of the Rose Judith Blegen; Frederica von Stade 15. Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - When the sky grows brighter Richard Cassilly 16. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: - Pa, pa, pa ... Betsy Norden; Christian Boesch 17. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette - Nuit d'hyménée Catherine Malfitano; Alfredo Kraus 18. Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore - Una furtiva lagrima Nicolai Gedda 19. Verdi: Falstaff - Reverenza Bianca Berini; Louis Quilico 20. Verdi: Ernani - Ernani involami Anna Tomowa-Sintow 21. R Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Final Trio Kathleen Battle; Elisabeth Söderström; Frederica von Stade 22. Verdi: Otello - Già nella notte densa Mirella Freni; Plácido Domingo Second Session - Evening 23. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 24. Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Vicino a te Montserrat Caballé; José Carreras 25. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Lyubveé vsyé vózrasti pokórni Paul Plishka 26. Puccini: La Fanciulla del West - C'ella mi creda Giuseppe Giacomini 27. Mozart: Don Giovanni - Lá ci darem la mano Myra Merritt; John Cheek 28. Puccini: La Bohème - O Mimì tu più non torni Gösta Winbergh; Vernon Hartman 29. Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue - L'année en vain chasse l'année Ileana Cotrubas 30. Delibes: Lakmé - Viens Mallika Mariella Devia; Jean Kraft 31. Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Signorina in tanta fretta Barbara Daniels; Italo Tajo 32. Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer - Wie aus der Ferne Carol Neblett; Simon Estes 33. Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Ebbene, Donnina innamorata ... Nemico della patria Andrea Velis; Cornell MacNeil 34. Verdi: Aida - Fu la sorte Martina Arroyo; Mignon Dunn 35. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila - Bacchanale 36. Verdi: Don Carlo - Dio, che nell'alma infondere Ermanno Mauro; Pablo Elvira 37. Herbert: Maytime - Sweethearts Anna Moffo; Robert Merrill 38. Barber: Vanessa - To leave to break Johanna Meier; Rosalind Elias; Regina Resnik; John Alexander; John Macurdy 39. Puccini: La Bohème - Vecchia zimarra Jerome Hines 40. Ponchielli: La Gioconda - É un anatèma Lucine Amara; Bianca Berini 41. Verdi: Nabucco - Donna chi sei Grace Bumbry; Renato Bruson Presentation of Honored Guests by the Master of Ceremonies, Osie Hawkins For the rest of the Gala, the following honoured guests (opera stars of yesteryear) were seated on stage: Mme. Rose Bampton, Erna Berger, Kitty Carlisle, Helen Jepson, Dorothy Kirsten, Brenda Lewis, Martha Lipton, Zinka Milanov, Patrice Munsel, Jarmila Novotna, Nell Rankin, Delia Rigal, Margaret Roggero, Stella Roman, Bidú Sayão, Eleanor Steber, Risë Stevens Messrs. Lorenzo Alvary, Gabor Carelli, Walter Cassel, Ferruccio Tagliavini, George Shirley, Theodor Uppman, Cesare Valletti, Ramon Vinay. 42. Gounod: Faust - Final Trio Katia Ricciarelli, William Lewis, Nicolai Ghiaurov 43. Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Bimba dagli occhi Leona Mitchell; Giuliano Ciannella 44. Wagner: Rienzi - Allmächt'ger Vater Timothy Jenkins 45. Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri - Pria di dividerci (septet) Diane Kesling; Edda Moser; Gail Dubinbaum; David Rendall; John Darrenkamp; Sesto Bruscantini; Ara Berberian 46. Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Va pour Kleinzach Neil Shicoff; Michael Best 47. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila - Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix Marilyn Horne 48. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen Birgit Nilsson 49. Swedish Folksong: I remember when I was seventeen Birgit Nilsson 50. Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera - Teco io sto Leontyne Price; Luciano Pavarotti 51. Happy Birthday Entire Company The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra were conducted by: James Levine; Richard Bonynge; David Stivender; Jeffrey Tate; Leonard Bernstein; John Pritchard; Thomas Fulton |
Marton |
Te Kanawa |
McCracken |
Raimondi |
Peters |
Sutherland |
Blegen |
von Stade |
Malfitano |
Kraus |
Gedda |
Tomowa-Sintow |
Battle |
Söderström |
Freni |
Domingo |
Caballé |
Carreras |
Cotrubas |
Bumbry |
Bruson |
Ricciarelli |
Ghiaurov |
Mitchell |
Moser |
Rendall |
Horne |
Nilsson |
Pavarotti |
Price |
James Levine |
Richard Bonynge |
Jeffrey Tate |
Leonard Bernstein |
