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The Metropolitan Opera gala 1991 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center

Title: The Metropolitan Opera gala 1991 [videorecording] : 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center / [a Cablevision/NBC/Polygram PPV production in association with the Metropolitan Opera in coproduction with Max Japan] ; video director, Brian Large.
Publication: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc., p1992, c1991.

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Description

2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sd., col.; 12 in.

Uniform Title

Star-spangled banner (Song)

Subjects

Note

Opera excerpts.
The Rigoletto and Otello excerpts sung in Italian with English subtitles. The Die Fledermaus excerpt sung in German with English subtitles and English dialogue. A "gala sequence" is interpolated into the Die Fledermaus excerpt that includes selections from various operas and musicals sung in German, French, Italian, and English.
Plot synopses in English and French, adapted from synopses by Karl Dietrich Gräwe, and complete credits ([12] p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Sept. 1991.

System Details (note)

NTSC, extended play, CLV, CX encoded, stereo, digital sound.

Contents

The national anthem [The Star-spangled banner] (sung by the audience) -- Rigoletto. Act. III / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave ; production, Otto Schenk ; set and costume design, Zack Brown ; stage director, Sharon Thomas ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; cast: Leo Nucci (Rigoletto) ; Cheryl Studer (Gilda) ; Luciano Pavarotti (Duke of Mantua) ; Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile) ; Birgitta Svendén (Maddalena).
Otello. Act III / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Arrigo Boito ; production and set design, Franco Zeffirelli ; costume design, Peter J. Hall ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; stage director, Fabrizio Melano ; cast: Dwayne Croft (A herald) ; Plácido Domingo (Otello) ; Justino Díaz (Iago) ; Mirella Freni (Desdemona) ; Uwe Heilmann (Cassio) ; Paul Plishka (Ludovico) ; Sondra Kelly (Emilia) ; Charles Anthony (Roderigo).
Die Fledermaus. Act II. [Excerpts] / music by Johann Strauss ; libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée ; production, Otto Schenk ; set design, Günther Schneider-Siemssen ; costume design, Peter J. Hall ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; stage director, Paul Mills ; cast: Andrij Dobriansky (Ivan) ; Anne Sofie von Otter (Prince Orlofsky) ; Dwayne Croft (Dr. Falke) ; Hermann Prey (Gabriel von Eisenstein) ; Barbara Kilduff (Adele) ; Grace Millo (Ida) ; Barbara Daniels (Rosalinde) ; Gottfried Hornik (Frank).
Gala sequence. Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from Die Zauberflöte / Mozart (Hermann Prey) -- Ah! que j'aime les militaires, from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein / Offenbach (Frederica von Stade) -- Largo al factotum, from Il barbiere di Siviglia / Rossini (Thomas Hampson) -- Je suis Titania, from Mignon / Thomas (June Anderson) -- Maria, from West Side story / Bernstein (Sherrill Milnes) -- La mamma morta, from Andrea Chénier / Giordano (Aprile Millo) -- Madamina (catalogue aria), from Don Giovanni / Mozart (Ferruccio Furlanetto) -- Ah tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima, from Linda di Chamounix / Donizetti (Kathleen Battle) -- The impossible dream, from Man of La Mancha / Leigh (Samuel Ramey) -- Io son l'umile ancella, from Adriana Lecouvreur / Cilèa (Mirella Freni) -- In un coupé...O Mimi, tu più non torni, from La bohème / Puccini (Luciano Pavarotti & Plácido Domingo).

Call Number

*LVD 33 (F)

OCLC

NYPG98-F253

Title

The Metropolitan Opera gala 1991 [videorecording] : 25th anniversary at Lincoln Center / [a Cablevision/NBC/Polygram PPV production in association with the Metropolitan Opera in coproduction with Max Japan] ; video director, Brian Large.

Imprint

Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc., p1992, c1991.

Performer

Various soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet ; James Levine, conductor.

Event

Videotaped at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Sept. 1991.

System Details

NTSC, extended play, CLV, CX encoded, stereo, digital sound.

Added Author

Anderson, June, 1952- Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Battle, Kathleen. Performer

Croft, Dwayne. Performer

Daniels, Barbara, 1946- Performer

Díaz, Justino. Performer

Dobriansky, Andrij. Performer

Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer

Freni, Mirella, 1935-2020. Performer

Furlanetto, Ferruccio. Performer

Ghiaurov, Nicolai, 1929-2004. Performer

Hampson, Thomas. Performer

Heilmann, Uwe, 1961- Performer

Hornik, Gottfried. Performer

Kelly, Sondra. Performer

Kilduff, Barbara. Performer

Millo, Aprile.4prf.

Millo, Grace.

Milnes, Sherrill. Performer

Nucci, Leo. Performer

Pavarotti, Luciano. Performer

Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer

Prey, Hermann, 1929-1998.

Ramey, Samuel. Performer

Studer, Cheryl. Performer

Svendén, Birgitta. Performer

Otter, Anne Sofie von. Performer

Von Stade, Frederica. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Rigoletto. Atto 3o.

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876. Librettist

Schenk, Otto. Production personnel

Brown, Zack.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Otello Atto 3o.

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918. Librettist

Zeffirelli, Franco. Production personnel

Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899. Fledermaus Akt 2. Selections; arranged.

Haffner, C. (Carl), 1804-1874. Librettist

Genée, Richard, 1823-1895. Librettist

Schneider-Siemssen, Günther.

Large, Brian. Director

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte. Mädchen oder Weibchen.

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Grande duchesse de Gérolstein. Ah! que j'aime les militaires.

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Barbiere di Siviglia. Largo al factotum.

Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896. Mignon. Je suis Titania.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. West Side story. Maria.

Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948. Andrea Chénier. Mamma morta.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. Madamina, il catalogo è questo.

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848. Linda di Chamounix. O luce di quest'anima.

Leigh, Mitch, 1928-2014. Man of La Mancha. Impossible dream.

Cilèa, Francesco, 1866-1950. Adriana Lecouvreur. Io son l'umile ancella.

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Bohème. O Mimì, tu più non torni.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Star-spangled banner (Song)

Publisher No.

072 528-1 Deutsche Grammophon

Research Call Number

*LVD 33 (F) Plot synopses on file.

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