Gala Performance at the MET (16.03.1968) [Almost Complete]
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- Here is a Grand Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera recorded inHouse on 16 March 1968! Some parts are missing! Here is the programme:
Metropolitan Opera House
March 16, 1968
Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild for the Benevolent and Retirement Funds
GALA PERFORMANCE
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I
Conductor: Thomas Schippers (missing)
00:00:00 Les Huguenots: Ô beau pays
Joan Sutherland
00:08:11 Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
Cornell MacNeil
Conductor...............Richard Bonynge
00:13:04 Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
Teresa Stratas
00:24:08 La Cenerentola: Miei rampolli feminini
Fernando Corena
The Queen of Spades: Gherman's Aria
Nicolai Gedda (missing)
00:29:14 Rossini: La Regata Veneziana
Renata Tebaldi
Conductor...............Thomas Schippers
00:39:23 I Vespri Siciliani: O tu Palermo
Ezio Flagello
La Juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur
Richard Tucker (missing)
00:46:04 Pagliacci: Prologue
Sherrill Milnes
00:51:34 L'Africaine: O paradiso
Carlo Bergonzi
Conductor...............Fausto Cleva
00:55:18 Hamlet: Drinking Song
Robert Merrill
00:58:50 Dinorah: Shadow Song
Roberta Peters
01:05:02 Rigoletto: Pari siamo
Mario Sereni
01:08:50 Louise: Depuis le jour
Leontyne Price
01:13:36 Die Capua: I' te vurria vasà
01:16:51 Cardillo: Core 'ngrato
Franco Corelli
Conductor...............Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
01:20:05 Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Richard Tucker
01:22:50 Don Giovanni: Madamina
Giorgio Tozzi
01:28:25 The Land of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
James King
Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen
Leonie Rysanek (missing)
01:31:51 L'Arlesiana: È la solita storia
Jan Peerce
Conductor...............George Schick
01:36:00 Faust: Act V, Scene 2
Joan Sutherland, George Shirley, John Macurdy
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
[The artists sang works they had not performed before at the Metropolitan Opera.]
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Leontyne Price, Renata Tebaldi, and Joan Sutherland in the same night - WOW! (Among many others...)😍
@@mickyalexandru6894 Sorry Tebaldi sounds great - I mean really great. She sounds like a mildly dark soprano not a mezzo(nothing wrong with that).
@@mickyalexandru6894 She sounds glorious. She lost some of her top range but the beauty is still in tact.
@@mickyalexandru6894 I am also a trained classical singer. I am not a crazed Tebaldi fan but her tone is beautiful and quite supple.
That Faust trio is off the scale. Joan soars over eveything with enormous impact.
Imagine! A bumper crop of great singers all on the same stage. Truly a golden age! Treasure this because those days are long gone.
What a cast. Sutherland at her best. Glorious.
A cast to blow your mind away. Thank you for sharing.
Sutherland!
@@annettefallon1652 Yes!
Thanks so much for this compilation. Especially for including Ezio Flagello who was at this time one of the 2 or 3 most sonorous bass voices on the MET roster & is vastly underrated as a vocalist.
Franco Corelli, el ganador en aplausos y calidad.
Glory days... ✨✨✨
Thanks for sharing this treasure! 🙏🍀
Teresa Stratas has a way bigger voice than I thought when recorded from far, wow.
Great artist Great Concert. Thank you my friend.
Thanks very much for this!
thank you
Thank you
Thank you. Bravi!!!
Fantastic!
Bravo MacNeil.
Saudades de Zinka Milanov ❤
This performance was held at the New Met (not pictured). That beautiful picture is of the Old Met. Demolition started in 1967.
What a shame. That building should've been heritage listed.
@@liedersanger1 Thank you for the correction. Thinking about the destruction of that theatre makes me ill. I used to have a brick from that building, but it's been lost during a few moves from place to place, I was in the Boys Chorus in that theatre. It was pure pleasure. I got to hear lots of singers in their primes. And I got to run around the backstage and poke my nose into everything.
@@tobiolopainto Delightful! Any great singers you remember?
@@liedersanger1 Hard question because there were so many. I was in the Turandot revival with Stokowsky conducting. And I was chosen to play a scroll bearer in the Questions scene.(there were 6 of us. the make up took a half an hour). This means I was on stage with Nilsson, Corelli and others. O boy! It's hard to imagine, today the level of singing at the old house. The new house is more comfortable than the old house, but despite doubling the size of the auditorium, it seats the same number as the Old Met. For Gioconda for some reason the cast kept changing. Farrell, Milanov, Tebaldi! Farrell had a huge blasting voice. But she was unidiomatic in the music- - what I mean is that she never held a note longer than was indicated in the score. In spots where most sopranos linger Farrell sang the note and left. It's as though she was cheap with her voice. . Milanov was my favorite Gioconda. She nailed that "Enzo adorato" note. She was marvelous. She had stage savvy. This is something that actors have if they're paying attention and they're onstage a lot. Milanov knew where to go, how to sit and stand and walk onstage. Farrell did not have it. She was pretty terrible on stage. Tebaldi had it.. In Gioconda's 2nd act I was only a few feet from Merrill. He was wonderful. Corelli had no stage savvy. He was impossible at least some of the time. He was a great singer except he had such scorn for other singers that he'd make faces or stamp his foot on the floor to get them to speed up so he could sing. I ended up preferring Gedda to Corelli because Gedda behaved better- - he had stage savvy, too and was an excellent musician, not something I'd say about Corelli.
I'd hang around after the boys sang and hear the rest of the act from the sides of the stage. I did this for all the operas I was in.
The great singers I heard were Nilsson (always Nilsson!!!), Milanov (the soprano voice inside my head is Milanov's), Tebaldi (wonderful unique column of sound!), Tucker and Bergonzi- - both wonderful, but little savvy. Stratus great singer, not only savvy but she was a great actress. She was probably the best actress I saw at the Met. Tozzi. I heard Christoff at Carnegie Hall. Obviously the greatest singer I ever heard among the men. After my 2 year stint as a boy in the chorus, I became an opera fanatic. For season 63-64 I had a front row seat in the dress circle. I added operas by going to standing in the family circle. The Family Circle had great sound (only approached at the new Met by the first 2 seats by the proscenium arch in the family circle). I learned opera up there. Great people to talk to who had heard Caruso, etc.
@@liedersanger1 I was trying to stay within the parameters of who I heard while in the chorus. But since I was paying attention to opera from about 1963 on I heard plenty of people who moved me. Price did not have stage savvy. Also someone told her to smile when she sang. This she did all over the place, whether appropriate or not. One could always rely on Price's ability to smile in the wrong place, for example the Miserere scene in Trovatore. She'd turn upstage while singing so that we saw her back. Then she'd whip around with that damn smile. I do not know what she thought she was doing. Amazing that no one spoke to her about it. Also she had great teeth. I do get tired of such antics.
MacNeil excellent, as always, but why not singing in italian (even in the M.E.T.) !?
Exactly what I was thinking…. By the sound of this excerpt, even in English, he would have made a great Figaro.
He’s singing Rigoletto in Italian
My error! Heard the Rigoletto and completely thought I was listening to MacNeill . It was Sereni, sounding fantastic!
Milnes is singing the prologue!