[Met Concert or Gala] CID:213860



Gala Performance
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 16, 1968




Gala Performance



Metropolitan Opera House
March 16, 1968

Benefit sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
for the Benevolent and Retirement Funds

GALA PERFORMANCE

Die Meistersinger von N?rnberg: Prelude to Act I
Conductor: Thomas Schippers

Les Huguenots: ? beau pays
Joan Sutherland

Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum
Cornell MacNeil

Conductor...............Richard Bonynge


Eugene Onegin: Letter Scene
Teresa Stratas

La Cenerentola: Miei rampolli feminini
Fernando Corena

The Queen of Spades: Gherman's Aria
Nicolai Gedda

Rossini: La Regata Veneziana
Renata Tebaldi

Conductor...............Thomas Schippers


I Vespri Siciliani: O tu Palermo
Ezio Flagello

La Juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur
Richard Tucker

Pagliacci: Prologue
Sherrill Milnes

L'Africaine: O paradiso
Carlo Bergonzi

Conductor...............Fausto Cleva


Hamlet: Drinking Song
Robert Merrill

Dinorah: Shadow Song
Roberta Peters

Rigoletto: Pari siamo
Mario Sereni

Louise: Depuis le jour
Leontyne Price

Cardillo: Core 'ngrato
Die Capua: I' te vurria vas?
Franco Corelli

Conductor...............Francesco Molinari-Pradelli


Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Richard Tucker

Don Giovanni: Madamina
Giorgio Tozzi

The Land of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
James King

Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen
Leonie Rysanek

L'Arlesiana: ? la solita storia
Jan Peerce

Conductor...............George Schick


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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