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[Met Concert/Gala] CID:206150
Gala Farewell. Metropolitan Opera House: 04/16/1966.

(Last performance by the Metropolitan Opera in the opera house at Broadway and 39th Street.)

Metropolitan Opera House April 16, 1966 Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild for the production funds Final performance by the Metropolitan Opera Company in the Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street GALA FAREWELL Tannhäuser: Entrance of the Guests Leopold Stokowski, Conductor [Last appearance] Presentation of Honored Guests Osie Hawkins, Master of Ceremonies HONORED GUESTS: Marian Anderson Rose Bampton Giuseppe Bamboschek Richard Bonelli Karin Branzell John Brownlee Anna Case Mario Chamlee Eugene Conley Richard Crooks Vilma Georgiou Hertha Glaz Nannette Guilford Frederick Jagel Helen Jepson Raoul Jobin Alexander Kipnis Charles Kullman Marjorie Lawrence Lotte Lehmann Martha Lipton Giovanni Martinelli Edith Mason Ruth Miller Nina Morgana Patrice Munsel Irra Petina Lily Pons Elisabeth Rethberg Stella Roman Bidú Sayao Risë Stevens Gladys Swarthout Lucia di Lammermoor: Sextet Anna Moffo Carlotta Ordassy Arturo Sergi Charles Anthony Justino Díaz William Walker Un Ballo in Maschera: Eri tu Robert Merrill Otello: Sì pel ciel James McCracken Anselmo Colzani Don Carlo: Ella giammai m'amò Cesare Siepi Conductor...............Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Louise: Depuis le jour Dorothy Kirsten Carmen: Quintet Regina Resnik Thelma Votipka [Last appearance] Marcia Baldwin Paul Franke George Cehanovsky [Last appearance] Madama Butterfly: Un bel dì Licia Albanese Conductor...............Max Rudolf Die Walküre: Winterstürme Jon Vickers Der Barbier von Bagdad: Heil diesem Hause Fernando Corena Conductor...............George Schick Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Una voce poco fà Roberta Peters La Forza del Destino: Non imprecare Delia Rigal [Last appearance] Jan Peerce Giorgio Tozzi Conductor...............Silvio Varviso La Gioconda: L'amo come il fulgor del creato! Régine Crespin Biserka Cvejic Il Trovatore: D'amor sull'ali rosee Leontyne Price Manon Lescaut: Vieni Colle tue braccia Renata Tebaldi Franco Corelli Conductor...............Fausto Cleva Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prize song Sándor Kónya Götterdämmerung: Immolation Scene Birgit Nilsson Conductor...............Joseph Rosenstock Aida: Act II, Scene 2 Aida....................Mary Curtis-Verna [Last appearance] Radamès.................Kurt Baum [Last appearance] Amneris.................Jean Madeira Amonasro................Mario Sereni Ramfis..................John Macurdy King....................Norman Scott Dance...................Edith Jerell Dance...................Patricia Heyes Dance...................Harry Jones Dance...................Donald Mahler Conductor...............Zubin Mehta Director................Nathaniel Merrill Designer................Robert O'Hearn Choreographer...........Katherine Dunham Così Fan Tutte: Farewell Trio Teresa Stratas Mildred Miller Frank Guarrera Die Zauberflöte: Quintet Mary Ellen Pracht Joann Grillo Gladys Kriese George Shirley Theodor Uppman Conductor...............Erich Leinsdorf Vanessa: Quintet Eleanor Steber [Last appearance] Mignon Dunn Blanche Thebom John Alexander Clifford Harvuot Conductor...............Kurt Adler Der Rosenkavalier: Final Trio Montserrat Caballé Judith Raskin Rosalind Elias Andrea Chénier: Final Duet Zinka Milanov [Last appearance] Richard Tucker Faust: Final Trio Gabriella Tucci Nicolai Gedda Jerome Hines Conductor...............Georges Prêtre [Following the final number on the program, the entire company returned to the stage to join the audience in singing Auld Lang Syne as a musical farewell to the old Metropolitan Opera House. Note: The Honored Guests, with the exception of Karin Branzell and Gladys Swarthout, who were seated on the parterre level, were seated on stage during the performance]

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