!!!Full Version!!! The Bolshoi Theater Opening 28.10.2011 + Bonus !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2f70caMyI
The Bolshoi Theater Opening 28.10.2011
!!!Full Version!!!
Международный день балета: Большой театр / World Ballet Day: The Bolshoi Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQoLHybExk
Opera Gala Honoring Sir Rudolf Bing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPbQilL470
The 22-year era of General Manager Rudolf Bing, then the most powerful man in the world of opera, ended at 1:30 a.m. on April 22, 1972, in the new Metropolitan Opera House he opened.
The 71-year old manager enjoyed a longer tenure than any other Metropolitan ruler except for Giulio Gatti-Casazza. For his farewell the controversial Austrian-born man who began in New York as plain Mr. Bing and ended up as Sir Rudolf, was tendered a marathon Gala Performance.
It was studded with singing by stars - the program including:
- Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti : "Verranno a te sull'aure " - Lucia di Lammermoor
- Roberta Peters & Sherrill Milnes : "Dunque io son" - The Barber of Seville
- Montserrat Caballé & Placido Domingo : "Tu, tu, amore? Tu?" - Manon Lescaut
- Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill : "Invano Alvaro" - La forza del destino
- Leontyne Price : "Dove Sono" - Le nozze di Figaro
- James McCracken : "Di quella pira" - Il Trovatore
- Teresa Zylis-Gara & Franco Corelli : "Già nella notte densa" - Otello
- Birgit Nilsson : "Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund" - Salome
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Richard Tucker Opera Gala (11.11.2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0dtTs1tH4
Richard Tucker Gala 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vES65uGD3Pc
Stephanie Blythe
Stephen Costello
Joyce DiDonato
Renée Fleming
Susan Graham
Greer Grimsley
Angela Meade
Eric Owens
Ailyn Pérez
Matthew Polenzani
Isabel Leonard
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Conductor - Riccardo Frizza
Isabel Leonard -- Gracia Mía de les 5 canciones amatorias d'Enric Granados
Stephen Costello i Ailyn Pérez: L'elisir d'amore de Gaetano Donizetti, "Caro elisir"
Eric Owens: Tosca de Giacomo Puccini, "Te Deum"
Susan Graham i Renée Fleming: Lakmé de Leo Delibes, "Viens, Mallika"
Matthew Polenzani: Les Contes d'Hoffmann de Jacques Offenbach, Kleinzach
Angela Meade: I due Foscaride Giuseppe Verdi, "Tu al cui sguardo onnipossente"
Isabel Leonard: Griselda de Antonio Vivaldi, "Ombre vane"
Stephanie Blythe i Geer Grimsley: Sanson et Dalila de Camille Saint-Saëns, "J'ai gravi la montagne"
Susan Graham: La Grand-Duchésse de Gérolstein de Jacques Offenbach, "Ah que j'amais les militaires"
Stephen Costello: Faust de Charles Gounod, "Salut, demeure chaste et pure"
Renée Fleming: Ombra di nube de Licinio Refice
Joyce DiDonato: La donna del lago de Giachino Rossini, "Tanti affetti"
Final, tots: Guillaume Tell de Gioachino Rossini -- concertant final
Richard Tucker - A Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVAZNfJzPIo
James Levine's 25th Anniversary - Metropolitan Opera Gala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6W7Db4S9HY
Highlights from the Gala of Galas - held on 27 April 1996 to celebrate James Levine's 25th Anniversary with the Metropolitan. The great diva Birgit Nilsson delivers a witty and moving spoken tribute to the Maestro towards the end of the Gala and shows, in a brief snatch of an aria, that she still had power and range.
Program:
1. Deborah Voigt: Tannhäuser: Dich teure Halle
2. Renée Fleming: Louise: Depuis le jour
3. Angela Gheorghiu & Roberto Alagna: L'Amico Fritz: Suzel buon dì
4. Dolora Zajick: Don Carlo: O don fatale
5. Roberto Alagna & Bryn Terfel: Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Au fond du temple saint
6. Ruth Ann Swenson: Roméo et Juliette: Je veux vivre
7. Alfredo Kraus: Werther: Pourquoi me réveiller
8. Carlo Bergonzi [Last appearance at the Met]: Luisa Miller: Quando le sere al placido
9. Renée Fleming, Anne Sofie von Otter & Heidi Grant Murphy: Der Rosenkavalier: Final Trio
10. Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jerry Hadley, Bryn Terfel & Julien Robbins: Don Giovanni: Act II Sextet
11. Birgit Nilsson: Tribute to James Levine (Birgit concluded her remarks with a few unaccompanied measures of Brünnhilde's Battle Cry)