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James Levine 25th anniversary gala

Title: James Levine 25th anniversary gala [videorecording] / a Metropolitan Opera Television production ; video director, Brian Large.
Publication: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon Video ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc., c1996.

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Description

2 videodiscs (161 min.) : sd., col.; 12 in.

Alternative Title

25th anniversary gala
James Levine twenty fifth anniversary gala
Twenty fifth anniversary gala
James Levine's 25th anniversary Metropolitan Opera gala
James Levine's twenty fifth anniversary Metropolitan Opera gala
Metropolitan Opera gala : James Levine

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.

Note

Opera excerpts sung in French, German, Italian or Russian, with English subtitles.
"Volume 1"--Container.
Program notes by Cori Ellison in English with French translation ([4] p. : ill.) on and bound in container.

Credits (note)

Scenery designed by Ezio Frigerio and Günther Schneider-Siemssen ; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler ; stage directors, Phebe Berkowitz, David Kneuss ; audio producer, Jay David Saks.

Event (note)

Videotaped live at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 27, 1996.

System Details (note)

Laser disc, NTSC, extended play, CLV, CX encoded, stereo, digital recording.

Contents

Rienzi. Overture (12:48) ; Tannhäuser. Dich, teure Halle (Deborah Voigt) (3:42) / Wagner -- Don Carlo. Restate!...O signor, di Fiandra arrivo [i.e. Act II, scene 6, complete] / Verdi (Thomas Hampson, Roberto Scandiuzzi) (12:19) -- Louise. Depuis le jour / Charpentier (Renée Fleming) (6:29) -- L'amico Fritz. Suzel, buon dì...Tutto tace / Mascagni (Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna) (9:54) -- Giuditta. Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss / Lehár (Ileana Cotrubas) (5:24) -- Don Carlo. O don fatale! / Verdi (Dolora Zajick) (5:21).
Side 2. Die Walküre. Loge, hör! and Magic fire music / Wagner (James Morris) (5:27) -- Les pêcheurs de perles. Au fond du temple saint / Bizet (Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel) (7:05) -- Roméo et Juliette. Juliet's waltz (Je veux vivre) / Gounod (Ruth Ann Swenson) (4:37) -- Die Fledermaus. Watch duet (Dieser Anstand, so manierlich) / Johann Strauss (Karita Mattila, Håkan Hagegård) (5:04) -- Tristan und Isolde. Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen (Isolde's narrative and curse) / Wagner (Waltraud Meier) (11:07) -- Luisa Miller. Quando le sere al placido / Verdi (Carlo Bergonzi) (7:15) -- Eugene Onegin. Final scene & duet / Tchaikovsky (Catherine Malfitano, Dwayne Croft) (15:35).
Side 3. Samson et Dalila. Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix / Saint-Saëns (Grace Bumbry) (6:31) -- La Périchole. Ah, quel dîner / Offenbach (Frederica Von Stade) (2:33) -- Der Rosenkavalier. Trio from Act III / Richard Strauss (Renée Fleming, Anne Sophie von Otter, Heidi Grant Murphy) (6:12) -- Faust. Duet from Act I [i.e. "Mais ce Dieu" to end of Scene 1] / Gounod (Plácido Domingo, Samuel Ramey) (10:32) -- Don Giovanni. Sextet from Act II / Mozart (Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jerry Hadley, Bryn Terfel, Julien Robbins) (8:59) -- A tribute to James Levine (Birgit Nilsson) (3:51) -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Wach auf, es nahet gen den Tag! / Wagner (Metropolitan Opera Chorus) (8:43).

Call Number

*LVD 213 (C)

OCLC

NYPG98-F154

Title

James Levine 25th anniversary gala [videorecording] / a Metropolitan Opera Television production ; video director, Brian Large.

Imprint

Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon Video ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc., c1996.

Performer

Various soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor.

Credits

Scenery designed by Ezio Frigerio and Günther Schneider-Siemssen ; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler ; stage directors, Phebe Berkowitz, David Kneuss ; audio producer, Jay David Saks.

Event

Videotaped live at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, April 27, 1996.

System Details

Laser disc, NTSC, extended play, CLV, CX encoded, stereo, digital recording.

Added Author

Alagna, Roberto. Performer

Bergonzi, Carlo. Performer

Bumbry, Grace, 1937-2023. Performer

Cotrubas, Ileana. Performer

Croft, Dwayne. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Fleming, Renee. Performer

Gheorghiu, Angela. Performer

Hadley, Jerry. Performer

Hagegård, Håkan. Performer

Hampson, Thomas. Performer

Hong, Hei-Kyung. Performer

Malfitano, Catherine. Performer

Mattila, Karita. Performer

Meier, Waltraud. Performer

Morris, James, 1947- Performer

Grant Murphy, Heidi. Performer

Nilsson, Birgit.

Ramey, Samuel. Performer

Robbins, Julien. Performer

Scandiuzzi, Roberto, 1958- Performer

Swenson, Ruth Ann. Performer

Te Kanawa, Kiri. Performer

Terfel, Bryn. Performer

Voigt, Deborah. Performer

Otter, Anne Sofie von. Performer

Von Stade, Frederica. Performer

Zajick, Dolora. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Large, Brian. Director

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Rienzi. Ouvertüre.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tannhäuser. Dich, teure Halle.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Don Carlos Acte 2. Scène 6. Italian.

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Louise. Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée.

Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945. Amico Fritz. Suzel, buon dì.

Lehár, Franz, 1870-1948. Giuditta. Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Don Carlos. O don fatal. Italian.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre. Feuerzauber.

Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Pêcheurs de perles. Au fond du temple saint.

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Roméo et Juliette. Je veux vivre dans le rêve.

Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899. Fledermaus. Dieser Anstand, so manierlich.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde. Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Evgeniĭ Onegin. O! Kak mnye tyazhelo!

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. Samson et Dalila. Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix.

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Périchole. Ah, quel dîner!

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Rosenkavalier (Opera). Hab' mir's gelobt.

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust. Mais ce Dieu.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. Sola, sola mi buio loco palpitar.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Wach' auf, es nahet gen den Tag.

Verdi, Giuseppe, (1813-1901). Luisa Miller. Quando le sere al placido.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)

Publisher No.

440 072 551-1 Deutsche Grammophon Video

Research Call Number

*LVD 213 (C)

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