[Met Concert/Gala] CID:351265
Mirella Freni Gala Anniversary Concert. Metropolitan Opera House: 05/15/2005.
(50th anniversary of Mirella Freni's operatic debut and 40th anniversary of her Met debut)
Metropolitan Opera House
May 15, 2005
Benefit for the Metropolitan Opera Pension Fund
MIRELLA FRENI GALA ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mirella Freni's operatic debut
and the 40th anniversary of her Metropolitan Opera debut
The Bartered Bride: Overture
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Manon: Adieu, notre petite table
Mirella Freni
Mignon: Connais-tu le pays?
Frederica von Stade
Andrea Chénier: Un dì all'azzurro spazio
Salvatore Licitra
Mefistofele: Prologue
James Morris
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
La Gioconda: Cielo e Mar
Marcello Giordani
Adriana Lecouvreur: Io son l'umile ancella
Mirella Freni
Adriana Lecouvreur: Adriana!...Maurizio!
Mirella Freni
Salvatore Licitra
The Maid of Orléans: Prostite vi
Mirella Freni
Eugene Onegin: Act III
Eugene Onegin...........Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Tatiana.................Mirella Freni
Prince Gremin...........Robert Lloyd
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
De Curtis: Non ti scordar di me (encore)
Mirella Freni [Last appearance]
Marcello Giordani
Conductor...............James Levine
Presentation:
Joseph Volpe spoke of Mirella Freni's Metropolitan Opera career and presented her with a signed photograph of Puccini, framed with a fragment of the first curtain of the new Met.
[Note: Though unannounced at the time of the performance, this gala event was the last professional appearance of Mme. Freni on any stage.]