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Saturday, March 20, 2021
At The Opera, Opera Potpourri Spring Fund Drive, March 20, 2021
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8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
Wagner
The Ride of the Valkyries
NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini, conductor
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
Puccini
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
Verdi
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Robert McFerrin
G. Verdi
Pari siamo from Rigoletto
MET Robert McFerrin
Kiri Te Kanawa
G.F. Handel
Lascia ch'io pianga - Rinaldo
Kiri Te Kanawa
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
Rossini
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Bizet
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
Leo Delibes
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
9:00 p.m.
Monserrat Caballe
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo, opera: Act 4 Final B Flat!
; Eliahu Inbal, conductor
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
Puccini
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
Puccini
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
Von Flotow
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
Puccini
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Leoncavallo
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Florence Foster Jenkins
Mozart
Queen Of The Night Aria [From The Magic Flute]
Birgit Nilsson
Richard Wagner
Gotterdammerung: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben! Immolation Scene
Vienna Philharmonic; Sir Georg Solti, conductor Birgit Nilsson
10:00 p.m.
Helen Traubel
Gluck
Alceste: Divinites Du Styx
Lucia Popp/Tom Krause
Mozart
Don Giovanni, La ci darem la mano
Carlo Bergonzi
Verdi
Il Trovatore, Ah si ben mio
Leontyne Price
Verdi
Aida, opera: Ritorna vincitor!
Marilyn Horne
Saint-Saens
Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47: Mon coeur s'ouvre ta voix
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Charles Gounod
Faust: Serenade: Vous qui faites l'endormie
Maria Callas
Verdi
Aida act 2 finale with high E flat
; De Fabrirtiis, conductor
Grace Bumbry
Verdi
Don Carlo, opera: O don fatale
11:00 p.m.
Maria Chiara
Puccini
Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta!
Mario del Monaco
Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur, opera: La dolcissima effigie
Sutherland/Tourangeau
Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle: Belle nuit, nuit d'amour
de Luca/Borthayer
Bizet
Pearlfishers' Duet: C'est toi... Au fond du temple saint
James King
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Tote Stadt Duet
; Götz Friedrich, conductor
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Bixio
Parlami d'amore Mariu
New Symphony of London Dino Olivieri
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor