Highlights of the 1966-67 Season.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.

Language:

English

German

Italian

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Operas--Excerpts.

Operas.

Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.

Live sound recordings.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Operas.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 16 min., 48 sec.))

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2016]

Language Note:

Sung in English, German and Italian.

System Details:

digital

audio file

streaming audio file

Summary:

The Met's first season in its new Lincoln Center home featured no fewer than nine new productions, each of them designed to herald a new era in the theatrical presentation of opera at the Met. Most of the world's A-list singers made appearances during the season, delivering great moments that survive in thrilling live recordings. Three selections here come from the new production of Ponchielli's masterpiece La Gioconda, which was broadcast on April 15, 1967, with soprano Renata Tebaldi in the title role and joined by Barry Morell as Enzo, Rosalind Elias as Laura, and Cornell MacNeil as Barnaba. Karl Böhm conducted another new production, Wagner's Lohengrin, starring Christa Ludwig as the sorceress Ortrud and Walter Berry as her embittered husband Telramund, taken here from a broadcast on January 21, 1967. Beloved by Met audiences for decades, soprano Teresa Stratas brought an especially aching poignancy to her portrayal of Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème in a broadcast from February 4, 1967. The ravishing diva Anna Moffo as Violetta Valéry and Robert Merrill as an imposing Giorgio Germont were heard in a new production of Verdi's La Traviata broadcast of March 25, 1967. Merrill also appeared as Count di Luna in Verdi's Il Trovatore with Richard Tucker as Manrico and Martina Arroyo as Leonora on a broadcast from February 18, 1967. Thomas Schippers led a broadcast of Richard Strauss's Elektra on December 10, 1966 with Birgit Nilsson in the title role opposite Regina Resnik as her deranged mother Klytämnestra. In a world premiere setting of a Eugene O'Neill play, Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra focused on the same Greek tragedy that Strauss dramatized. The opera was broadcast on April 1, 1967, with Evelyn Lear, John Reardon, Marie Collier, and Sherrill Milnes, with Zubin Mehta conducting.

Contents:

Opening night at the New Met. Live Radio Interviews. Pre-Curtain (9/16/1966) ; Intermission (9/16/1966)

Don Giovanni. Don Ottavio, son morta! ... Or sai chi l'onore (1/28/1967) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

La gioconda. E un anatèma! ... L'amo come il fulgor del creato ; Il mio braccio t'afferra! ; Veda là, nel canal morto (4/15/1967) / Amilcare Ponchielli

Lohengrin. Du wilde Seherin! Wie willst du doch geheimnisvoll (1/21/1967) / Richard Wagner

La Bohème. Donde lieta uscì (2/4/1967) / Giacomo Puccini

La traviata. Pura siccome un angelo ; Non sapete quale affetto ... Un dì, quando le veneri ; Ah! Dite alla giovine (3/25/1967) ; Il trovatore. Tace la notte! ; Di geloso amor sprezzato (2/18/1967) / Giuseppe Verdi

Elektra. Ich habe keine guten Nächte ; Wenn das rechte Blutopfer unterm Beile fällt ; Was bluten muss? (12/10/1966) / Richard Strauss

Mourning becomes Electra. Forgive me ... He takes my place (4/1/1967) / Marvin David Levy.

Participant:

Various soloists and conductors ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

Notes:

Recorded live 1966-1967 The Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.

Duration: 1 hr., 16 min., 48 sec.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. Or sai, chi l'onore

Container of: Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886. Gioconda. Selections

Container of: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Lohengrin. Selections

Container of: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème. Donde lieta uscì

Container of: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas. Selections

Container of: Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Elektra. Selections

Container of: Levy, Marvin David. Mourning becomes Electra. He takes my place.

OCLC:

1018379578

Publisher Number:

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