La grande notte a Verona 1988 / produced by Multimedia with Arena di Verona Ente Autonomo in cooperation with Generalitat de Catalunya ; written by Charles Lewinsky ; director, Karlheinz Hundorf.
José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Ghena Dimitrova, Peter Dvorsky, Sona Ghazarian, Giacomo Aragall, René Kollo, Eva Marton, Leo Nucci, Elena Obraztsova, Ferrucio Furlanetto, Natalia Troitskaya, Luca Canonici, Ruggero Raimondi, Samuel Ramey, Aprile Millo, Vincenzo La Scola, Mara Zampieri, Silvano Carroli, Juan Pons, Antonio Ordonez, Ileana Cotrubas, ; La Orquestra Sinfônica de Madrid; José Callado and Carlo Franci, conductors. Live concert from the Arena di Verona, August 8, 1988 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Arena di Verona. Picture format 4:3, NTSC. Booklet with program notes in English, French and German (15 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Contents:
"Largo al factotum" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Gioacchino Rossini (Leo Nucci) -- "Suicidio!" from La Gioconda / Amilcare Ponchielli (Ghena Dimitrova) -- "Donna non vidi mai" from Manon Lescaut / Giacomo Puccini (Peter Dvorsky) -- "Mi chiamano Mimi" from La Bohème / Giocomo Puccini (Sona Ghazarian) -- "L'anima ho stanca" from Adriana Lecouvreur / Francesco Cilèa (Giacomo Aragall) -- "Ella giammai m'amò" from Don Carlos / Giuseppe Verdi (Ruggero Raimondi) -- "Voi lo sapete" from Cavalleria Rusticana / Pietro Mascagni (Elena Obraztsova) -- "La calunnia" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Gioacchino Rossini (Ferruccio Furlanetto) -- "Ritorna vincitor" from Aida / Giuseppe Verdi (Natalia Troitskaya) -- "È la solita storia" from L'Arlesiana / Francesco Cilèa (Luca Canonici) -- "Pleurez mes yeux" from Le Cid / Jules Massenet (Montserrat Caballé) -- "Mentre gonfiarsi l'anima parea dinanzi a Roma" from Attila / Giuseppe Verdi (Samuel Ramey) -- "Pace, pace mio Dio" from La Forza del Destino / Giuseppe Verdi (Aprile Millo) -- "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'Elisir d'Amore / Gaetano Donizetti (Vincenzo La Scola) -- "Casta Diva" from Norma / Vincenzo Bellini (Mara Zampieri) -- "In fernem Land" from Lohengrin / Richard Wagner (René Kollo) -- "Credo in un Dio curdel" from Otello / Giuseppe Verdi (Silvano Carroli) -- "Sola, perduta, abbandonata" from Manon Lescaut / Giacomo Puccini (Eva Marton) -- "Di Provenza il mar" from La Traviata / Giuseppe Verdi (Juan Pons) -- "Sento avvampar nell'anima" from Simon Boccanegra / Giuseppe Verdi (Antonio Ordonez) -- "Azaël! Azaël! Pourquoi m'as-tu quittée?" from L'Enfant Prodigue / Claude Debussy (Ileana Cotrubas) -- "Granada" / Agustin Lara (José Carreras).
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