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1. The Metropolitan Opera gala 1991 [videorecording] : 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center [1991]

  • Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc., p1992, c1991.
Description
Video — 2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
Summary
  • The national anthem [The Star-spangled banner] (sung by the audience)
  • Rigoletto. Act. III / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave ; production, Otto Schenk ; set and costume design, Zack Brown ; stage director, Sharon Thomas ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; cast: Leo Nucci (Rigoletto) ; Cheryl Studer (Gilda) ; Luciano Pavarotti (Duke of Mantua) ; Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile) ; Birgitta Svendén (Maddalena).
  • Otello. Act III / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito ; production and set design, Franco Zeffirelli ; costume design, Peter J. Hall ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; stage director, Fabrizio Melano ; cast: Dwayne Croft (A herald) ; Plácido Domingo (Otello) ; Justino Díaz (Iago) ; Mirella Freni (Desdemona) ; Uwe Heilmann (Cassio) ; Paul Plishka (Ludovico) ; Sondra Kelly (Emilia) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo).
  • Die Fledermaus. Act II. [Excerpts] / music by Johann Strauss ; libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée ; production, Otto Schenk ; set design, Günther Schneider-Siemssen ; costume design, Peter J. Hall ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; stage director, Paul Mills ; cast: Andrij Dobriansky (Ivan) ; Anne Sofie von Otter (Prince Orlofsky) ; Dwayne Croft (Dr. Falke) ; Hermann Prey (Gabriel von Eisenstein) ; Barbara Kilduff (Adele) ; Grace Millo (Ida) ; Barbara Daniels (Rosalinde) ; Gottfried Hornik (Frank).
  • Gala sequence. Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from Die Zauberflöte / Mozart (Hermann Prey)
  • Ah! que j'aime les militaires, from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein / Offenbach (Frederica von Stade)
  • Largo al factotum, from Il barbiere di Siviglia / Rossini (Thomas Hampson)
  • Je suis Titania, from Mignon / Thomas (June Anderson)
  • Maria, from West Side story / Bernstein (Sherrill Milnes)
  • La mamma morta, from Andrea Chénier / Giordano (Aprile Millo)
  • Madamina (catalogue aria), from Don Giovanni / Mozart (Ferruccio Furlanetto)
  • Ah tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima, from Linda di Chamounix / Donizetti (Kathleen Battle)
  • The impossible dream, from Man of La Mancha / Leigh (Samuel Ramey)
  • Io son l'umile ancella, from Adriana Lecouvreur / Cilèa (Mirella Freni)
  • In un coupé...O Mimi, tu più non torni, from La bohème / Puccini (Luciano Pavarotti & Plácido Domingo).
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