MTU Library Catalogue

Centennial gala / The Metropolitan Opera.

By: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.).
Contributor(s): Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra [performer] | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus [performer] | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet [performer].
Material type: materialTypeLabelVisual materialPublisher: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages : illustrations).Content type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscISBN: 044007345382.Subject(s): Operas -- ExcerptsDDC classification: DVD/378
Contents:
DVD 1 : Overture (The bartered bride) / Bedrich Smetana -- In questa reggia (Turandot) / Giacomo Puccini -- E Susanna non vien ... Dove sono i bei momenti (Le nozze di Figaro) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Dio! mi potevi scagliar (Otello) / Giuseppe Verdi -- La calunnia e un venticello (Il barbiere di Siviglia) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Lucia di Lammermoor) / Gaetano Donizetti -- Bel raggio lushinghier (Semiramide) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Prelude and hymn of the sun (Iris) / Pietro Mascagni -- Presentation of the rose (Der rosenkavalier) / Richard Strauss -- Duet, Act IV (Romeo et Juliette) / Charles Gounod -- Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore) / Gaetano Donizetti -- Ernani, involami (Ernani) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Final trio (Der Rosenkavalier) / Richard Strauss -- Gia nella notte densa (Otello) / Giuseppe Verdi -- DVD 2 : Leonore overture III / Ludwig Van Beethoven -- Final duet (Andrea Chenier) / Umberto Giordano -- Lia's aria (L'enfant prodigue) / Claude Debussy -- Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila) / Camille Saint-Saens -- Duet, Act III (Nabucco) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Final trio (Faust) / Charles Gounod -- Duet, Act I (Madama Butterfly) / Giacomo Puccini -- Finale, Act I (L'italiana in Algeri) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samon et Dalila) / Camille Saint-Saens -- Isolde's narrative and curse, Act I (Tristan und Isolde) / Richard Wagner -- I remember when I was seventeen (Swedish folk song) -- Duet, Act II (Un ballo in maschera) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Happy birthday to you, dear Met!
Production Credits: Michael Bronson, executive producer ; Clemente D'Alessio, producer ; Kirk Browning, director.
Various performers from the Metropolitan Opera, various conductors, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.

Gala performance in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera.

DVD 1 : Overture (The bartered bride) / Bedrich Smetana -- In questa reggia (Turandot) / Giacomo Puccini -- E Susanna non vien ... Dove sono i bei momenti (Le nozze di Figaro) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Dio! mi potevi scagliar (Otello) / Giuseppe Verdi -- La calunnia e un venticello (Il barbiere di Siviglia) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Lucia di Lammermoor) / Gaetano Donizetti -- Bel raggio lushinghier (Semiramide) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Prelude and hymn of the sun (Iris) / Pietro Mascagni -- Presentation of the rose (Der rosenkavalier) / Richard Strauss -- Duet, Act IV (Romeo et Juliette) / Charles Gounod -- Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore) / Gaetano Donizetti -- Ernani, involami (Ernani) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Final trio (Der Rosenkavalier) / Richard Strauss -- Gia nella notte densa (Otello) / Giuseppe Verdi -- DVD 2 : Leonore overture III / Ludwig Van Beethoven -- Final duet (Andrea Chenier) / Umberto Giordano -- Lia's aria (L'enfant prodigue) / Claude Debussy -- Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila) / Camille Saint-Saens -- Duet, Act III (Nabucco) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Final trio (Faust) / Charles Gounod -- Duet, Act I (Madama Butterfly) / Giacomo Puccini -- Finale, Act I (L'italiana in Algeri) / Gioacchino Rossini -- Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samon et Dalila) / Camille Saint-Saens -- Isolde's narrative and curse, Act I (Tristan und Isolde) / Richard Wagner -- I remember when I was seventeen (Swedish folk song) -- Duet, Act II (Un ballo in maschera) / Giuseppe Verdi -- Happy birthday to you, dear Met!

Michael Bronson, executive producer ; Clemente D'Alessio, producer ; Kirk Browning, director.

Various performers from the Metropolitan Opera, various conductors, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.

Recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 22 October 22, 1983.

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