[Met Concert/Gala] CID:213860
Gala Performance. Metropolitan Opera House: 03/16/1968.
Metropolitan Opera House
March 16, 1968
Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
for the Benevolent and Retirement Funds
GALA PERFORMANCE
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I
Conductor: Thomas Schippers
Les Huguenots: Ô beau pays
Joan Sutherland
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
Cornell MacNeil
Conductor...............Richard Bonynge
Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
Teresa Stratas
La Cenerentola: Miei rampolli feminini
Fernando Corena
The Queen of Spades: Gherman's Aria
Nicolai Gedda
Rossini: La Regata Veneziana
Renata Tebaldi
Conductor...............Thomas Schippers
I Vespri Siciliani: O tu Palermo
Ezio Flagello
La Juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur
Richard Tucker
Pagliacci: Prologue
Sherrill Milnes
L'Africaine: O paradiso
Carlo Bergonzi
Conductor...............Fausto Cleva
Hamlet: Drinking Song
Robert Merrill
Dinorah: Shadow Song
Roberta Peters
Rigoletto: Pari siamo
Mario Sereni
Louise: Depuis le jour
Leontyne Price
Cardillo: Core 'ngrato
Die Capua: I' te vurria vasà
Franco Corelli
Conductor...............Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Richard Tucker
Don Giovanni: Madamina
Giorgio Tozzi
The Land of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
James King
Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen
Leonie Rysanek
L'Arlesiana: È la solita storia
Jan Peerce
Conductor...............George Schick
Faust: Act V, Scene 2
Joan Sutherland, George Shirley, John Macurdy
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
[The artists sang works they had not performed before at the Metropolitan Opera.]
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Subjects:
- 1967-68
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Cleva, Fausto]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Schippers, Thomas]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Bonynge, Richard]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Schick, George]
- Gala Performance: [MacNeil, Cornell]
- Gala Performance: [Stratas, Teresa]
- Gala Performance: [Corena, Fernando]
- Gala Performance: [Gedda, Nicolai]
- Gala Performance: [Tebaldi, Renata]
- Gala Performance: [Flagello, Ezio]
- Gala Performance: [Tucker, Richard]
- Gala Performance: [Milnes, Sherrill]
- Gala Performance: [Bergonzi, Carlo]
- Gala Performance: [Merrill, Robert]
- Gala Performance: [Peters, Roberta]
- Gala Performance: [Sereni, Mario]
- Gala Performance: [Price, Leontyne]
- Gala Performance: [Corelli, Franco]
- Gala Performance: [Tozzi, Giorgio]
- Gala Performance: [King, James]
- Gala Performance: [Rysanek, Leonie]
- Gala Performance: [Peerce, Jan]
- Gala Performance: [Shirley, George]
- Gala Performance: [Macurdy, John]
- Gala Performance: [Sutherland, Joan]
- 1967-68: Gala Performance: 1 performance: Statistics
Selection/Excerpt
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I [Schippers, Thomas]
- Les Huguenots: Ô beau pays [Sutherland, Joan/Bonynge, Richard]
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum [MacNeil, Cornell/Bonynge, Richard]
- Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene [Stratas, Teresa/Schippers, Thomas]
- La Cenerentola: Miei rampolli feminini [Corena, Fernando/Schippers, Thomas]
- The Queen of Spades: Gherman's Aria [Gedda, Nicolai/Schippers, Thomas]
- Rossini: La Regata Veneziana [Tebaldi, Renata/Schippers, Thomas]
- I Vespri Siciliani: O tu Palermo [Flagello, Ezio/Cleva, Fausto]
- La Juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur [Tucker, Richard/Cleva, Fausto]
- Pagliacci: Prologue [Milnes, Sherrill/Cleva, Fausto]
- L'Africaine: O paradiso! [Bergonzi, Carlo/Cleva, Fausto]
- Hamlet: Drinking Song [Merrill, Robert/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Dinorah: Shadow Song [Peters, Roberta/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Rigoletto: Pari siamo [Sereni, Mario/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Louise: Depuis le jour [Price, Leontyne/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Cardillo: Core 'ngrato [Corelli, Franco/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Die Capua: I' te vurria vasà [Corelli, Franco/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba [Tucker, Richard/Schick, George]
- Don Giovanni: Madamina [Tozzi, Giorgio/Schick, George]
- Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz [King, James/Schick, George]
- Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen [Rysanek, Leonie/Schick, George]
- L'Arlesiana: È la solita storia [Peerce, Jan/Schick, George]
- Faust: Act V, Scene 2 [Sutherland, Joan/Shirley, George/Macurdy, John/Bonynge, Richard]
Met Careers
- Bergonzi, Carlo [Tenor]
- Bonynge, Richard [Conductor]
- Cleva, Fausto [Conductor]
- Corelli, Franco [Tenor]
- Corena, Fernando [Bass]
- Flagello, Ezio [Bass]
- Gedda, Nicolai [Tenor]
- MacNeil, Cornell [Baritone]
- Macurdy, John [Bass]
- Merrill, Robert [Baritone]
- Milnes, Sherrill [Baritone]
- Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco [Conductor]
- Peerce, Jan [Tenor]
- Peters, Roberta [Soprano]
- Price, Leontyne [Soprano]
- Schick, George [Conductor]
- Schippers, Thomas [Conductor]
- Sereni, Mario [Baritone]
- Shirley, George [Tenor]
- Stratas, Teresa [Soprano]
- Sutherland, Joan [Soprano]
- Tebaldi, Renata [Soprano]
- Tozzi, Giorgio [Bass]
- Tucker, Richard [Tenor]
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