Live performance opera excerpts (15 March 1977-24 February 2007). Title from container. Various performers ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.
Contents:
"Allein! Weh, ganz allein!" / Strauss's Elektra, Birgit Nilsson, James Levine, conductor -- "Cruda sorte" / Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri, Marilyn Horne, James Levine, conductor -- "Voi che sapete" / Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Frederica von Stade with Carol Vaness, James Levine, conductor -- "O soave fanciulla" / Puccini's La Bohème, Teresa Stratas and José Carreras, James Levine, conductor -- "La donna è mobile" / Verdi's Rigoletto, Luciano Pavarotti, James Levine, conductor -- "Quel guardo il cavaliere" / Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Beverly Sills, Nicola Rescigno, conductor -- "Dove sono" / Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Renée Fleming, James Levine, conductor -- "E lucevan le stelle" / Puccini's Tosca, Plácido Domingo, Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor -- "Nessun dorma" / Puccini's Turandot, Plácido Domino, James Levine, conductor -- Final scene / Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Valery Gergiev, conductor -- "Una furtiva lagrima" / Donizetti's L'Elisir d' Amore, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicola Rescigno, conductor -- "Spargi d'amaro pianto" / Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, conductor -- Act III trio / Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos and Judith Blegen, James Levine, conductor -- "Che gelida manina" / Puccini's La Bohème, Luciano Pavarotti with Renata Scotto, James Levine, conductor -- "O patria mia" / Verdi's Aida, Leontyne Price, James Levine, conductor.
Summary:
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