[Met Concert/Gala] CID:229210
Gala Performance Honoring Sir Rudolf Bing. Metropolitan Opera House: 04/22/1972., Telecast
(Telecast
Review)
Metropolitan Opera House
April 22, 1972 Telecast
Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
GALA PERFORMANCE
HONORING SIR RUDOLF BING
Scenery for Act I, Scene 2 of Don Carlo
designed by Rolf Gérard
Luisa Miller: Overture
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Dunque io son
Roberta Peters
Sherrill Milnes
La Bohčme: Donde lieta uscě
Teresa Stratas
Otello: Credo
Thomas Stewart
Luisa Miller: L'alto retaggio
Paul Plishka
Ruggero Raimondi
Conductor...............James Levine
Manon: Gavotte
Anna Moffo
Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida
Martina Arroyo
Lucia di Lammermoor: Verranno a te
Joan Sutherland
Luciano Pavarotti
Scenery for Act II, Scene 2 of Die Zauberflöte
designed by Marc Chagall
Strauss: Acceleration Waltz
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Choreographer: Zachery Solov
Conductor...............Richard Bonynge
Rigoletto: Tutte le feste
Gail Robinson
Cornell MacNeil
Louise: Depuis le jour
Dorothy Kirsten
La Cenerentola: Un segreto
Fernando Corena
Ezio Flagello
Manon Lescaut: Tu tu amore tu
Montserrat Caballé
Plácido Domingo
Conductor...............James Levine
Le Cid: Pleurez mes yeux
Grace Bumbry
Les Trois Valses (Oscar Straus): Je t'aime
Régine Crespin
Conductor...............Richard Bonynge
Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria
Mario Sereni
I Lombardi: Act III Prelude and Qual voluttŕ trascorrere
Lucine Amara
Enrico Di Giuseppe
Cesare Siepi
Raymond Gniewek, violin
La Forza del Destino: Invano Alvaro
Richard Tucker
Robert Merrill
Le Nozze di Figaro: Dove sono
Leontyne Price
Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Scenery for Der Rosenkavalier, Act II
designed by Robert O'Hearn
Presentation:
Lowell Wadmond, Chairman of the Board
Remarks:
Sir Rudolf Bing
Die Fledermaus: Chacun ŕ Bing's gout
(English text by John Gutman)
Regina Resnik
Aida: Fu la sorte
Gabriella Tucci
Irene Dalis
Die Zauberflöte: O Isis und Osiris
John Macurdy
Il Trovatore: Di quella pira
James McCracken
Carmen: Act IV: Opening Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Conductor...............Kurt Adler
Lohengrin: In fernem Land
Sándor Kónya
Vanessa: Must the winter come so soon
Rosalind Elias
La Bohčme: Vecchia zimarra
Jerome Hines
Die Tote Stadt: Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Lied)
Pilar Lorengar
Die Walküre: Act I Conclusion
Leonie Rysanek
Jon Vickers
Conductor...............Max Rudolf
Otello: Love Duet
Teresa Zylis-Gara
Franco Corelli
Salome: Final Scene
Birgit Nilsson
Conductor...............Karl Böhm
Director................Fabrizio Melano
TV Director.............Kirk Browning
[One hour of highlights from the gala were seen in a delayed telecast on April 30 over CBS.]
Review of Bing Gala.
Photograph of the Metropolitan Opera Company on stage at the Gala honoring Rudolf Bing by Louis Mélançon
Review
Added Index Entries for Subjects and Names
Subjects:
- 1971-72
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Adler, Kurt]
- Gala Performance: [Peters, Roberta]
- Gala Performance: [Milnes, Sherrill]
- Gala Performance: [Stratas, Teresa]
- Gala Performance: [Stewart, Thomas]
- Gala Performance: [Plishka, Paul]
- Gala Performance: [Raimondi, Ruggero]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Levine, James]
- Gala Performance: [Moffo, Anna]
- Gala Performance: [Arroyo, Martina]
- Gala Performance: [Sutherland, Joan]
- Gala Performance: [Pavarotti, Luciano]
- Gala Performance: [Metropolitan Opera Ballet]
- Gala Performance: [Solov, Zachary]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Bonynge, Richard]
- Gala Performance: [Robinson, Gail]
- Gala Performance: [MacNeil, Cornell]
- Gala Performance: [Kirsten, Dorothy]
- Gala Performance: [Corena, Fernando]
- Gala Performance: [Flagello, Ezio]
- Gala Performance: [Caballé, Montserrat]
- Gala Performance: [Domingo, Plácido]
- Gala Performance: [Bumbry, Grace]
- Gala Performance: [Crespin, Régine]
- Gala Performance: [Sereni, Mario]
- Gala Performance: [Amara, Lucine]
- Gala Performance: [Di Giuseppe, Enrico]
- Gala Performance: [Siepi, Cesare]
- Gala Performance: [Gniewek, Raymond]
- Gala Performance: [Tucker, Richard]
- Gala Performance: [Merrill, Robert]
- Gala Performance: [Price, Leontyne]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Gala Performance: Presentation [Wadmond, Lowell]
- Gala Performance: Remarks [Bing, Sir Rudolf]
- Gala Performance: [Resnik, Regina]
- Gala Performance: [Tucci, Gabriella]
- Gala Performance: [Dalis, Irene]
- Gala Performance: [Macurdy, John]
- Gala Performance: [McCracken, James]
- Gala Performance: [Kónya, Sándor]
- Gala Performance: [Rosalind Elias]
- Gala Performance: [Hines, Jerome]
- Gala Performance: [Lorengar, Pilar]
- Gala Performance: [Rysanek, Leonie]
- Gala Performance: [Vickers, Jon]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Rudolf, Max]
- Gala Performance: [Zylis-Gara, Teresa]
- Gala Performance: [Corelli, Franco]
- Gala Performance: [Nilsson, Birgit]
- Gala Performance: Conductor [Böhm, Karl]
- Gala Performance: TV Director [Browning, Kirk]
- Bing, Rudolf: Photograph: Bing with company onstage at Bing Gala (Louis Mélançon)
- 1971-72: Bing Gala: Telecast
- Bing Gala: 1971-72: Telecast
- 1971-72: Gala Performance: 1 performance: Statistics
Selection/Excerpt
- Luisa Miller: Overture [Levine, James]
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Dunque io son [Peters, Roberta/Milnes, Sherrill/Levine, James]
- La Bohčme: Donde lieta uscě [Stratas, Teresa/Levine, James]
- Otello: Credo [Stewart, Thomas/Levine, James]
- Luisa Miller: L'alto retaggio [Plishka, Paul/Raimondi, Ruggero/Levine, James]
- Manon: Gavotte [Moffo, Anna/Bonynge, Richard]
- Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida [Arroyo, Martina/Bonynge, Richard]
- Lucia di Lammermoor: Verranno a te [Sutherland, Joan/Pavarotti, Luciano/Bonynge, Richard]
- Strauss: Acceleration Waltz [Met Opera Ballet/Bonynge, Richard]
- Rigoletto: Tutte le feste [Robinson, Gail/MacNeil, Cornell/Levine, James]
- Louise: Depuis le jour [Kirsten, Dorothy/Levine, James]
- La Cenerentola: Un segreto [Corena, Fernando/Flagello, Ezio/Levine, James]
- Manon Lescaut: Tu, tu, amore? Tu? [Caballé, Montserrat/Domingo, Plácido/Levine, James]
- Le Cid: Pleurez mes yeux [Bumbry, Grace/Bonynge, Richard]
- Oscar Straus: Les Trois Valses: Je t'aime [Crespin, Régine/Bonynge, Richard]
- Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria? [Sereni, Mario/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- I Lombardi: Act III Prelude and Qual voluttŕ trascorrere [Gniewek, Raymond/Amara, Lucine/Di Giuseppe, Enrico/Siepi, Cesare/Molinari-Pradelli]
- La Forza del Destino: Invano Alvaro [Tucker, Richard/Merrill, Robert/Molinari-Pradelli]
- Le Nozze di Figaro: Dove sono [Price, Leontyne/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Die Fledermaus: Chacun ŕ Bing's gout [Resnik, Regina/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Aida: Fu la sorte [Tucci, Gabriella/Dalis, Irene/Adler, Kurt]
- Die Zauberflöte: O Isis und Osiris [Macurdy, John/Adler, Kurt]
- Il Trovatore: Di quella pira [McCracken, James/Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco]
- Carmen: Act IV: Opening Chorus [Metropolitan Opera Chorus/Adler, Kurt]
- Lohengrin: In fernem Land [Kónya, Sándor/Rudolf, Max]
- Vanessa: Must the winter come so soon? [Elias, Rosalind/Rudolf, Max]
- La Bohčme: Vecchia zimarra [Hines, Jerome/Rudolf, Max]
- Die Tote Stadt: Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Lied) [Lorengar, Pilar/Rudolf, Max]
- Die Walküre: Act I Conclusion [Rysanek, Leonie/Vickers, Jon/Rudolf, Max]
- Otello: Love Duet [Zylis-Gara, Teresa/Corelli, Franco/Böhm, Karl]
- Salome: Final Scene [Nilsson, Birgit/Böhm, Karl]
Met Careers
- Adler, Kurt [Conductor]
- Amara, Lucine [Soprano]
- Arroyo, Martina [Soprano]
- Bing, Rudolf [Guest of Honor]
- Bing, Rudolf [Speaker]
- Böhm, Karl [Conductor]
- Bonynge, Richard [Conductor]
- Browning, Kirk [TV Director]
- Bumbry, Grace [Soprano]
- Caballé, Montserrat [Soprano]
- Corelli, Franco [Tenor]
- Corena, Fernando [Bass]
- Crespin, Régine [Soprano]
- Dalis, Irene [Mezzo Soprano]
- Di Giuseppe, Enrico [Tenor]
- Domingo, Plácido [Tenor]
- Elias, Rosalind [Mezzo Soprano]
- Flagello, Ezio [Bass]
- Gentele, Göran [Guest]
- Gniewek, Raymond [Violin]
- Hines, Jerome [Bass]
- Kirsten, Dorothy [Soprano]
- Kónya, Sándor [Tenor]
- Levine, James [Conductor]
- Lorengar, Pilar [Soprano]
- MacNeil, Cornell [Baritone]
- Macurdy, John [Bass]
- McCracken, James [Tenor]
- Merrill, Robert [Baritone]
- Milnes, Sherrill [Baritone]
- Moffo, Anna [Soprano]
- Molinari-Pradelli, Francesco [Conductor]
- Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano]
- Pavarotti, Luciano [Tenor]
- Peters, Roberta [Soprano]
- Plishka, Paul [Bass]
- Price, Leontyne [Soprano]
- Raimondi, Ruggero [Bass]
- Resnik, Regina [Soprano, Mezzo Soprano]
- Robinson, Gail [Soprano]
- Rudolf, Max [Conductor]
- Rysanek, Leonie [Soprano]
- Sereni, Mario [Baritone]
- Siepi, Cesare [Bass]
- Stewart, Thomas [Baritone]
- Stratas, Teresa [Soprano]
- Sutherland, Joan [Soprano]
- Tucci, Gabriella [Soprano]
- Tucker, Richard [Tenor]
- Vickers, Jon [Tenor]
- Wadmond, Lowell [Speaker]
- Zylis-Gara, Teresa [Soprano]
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