[Met Concert or Gala] CID:314000

Opening Night {109}, General Manager: Joseph Volpe

Gala Performance
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, September 27, 1993 Broadcast



In celebration of Pl?cido Domingo's and Luciano Pavarotti's twenty-fifth anniversaries with the company



Gala Performance



Metropolitan Opera House
September 27, 1993 Broadcast
Opening Night {109}

Joseph Volpe, General Manager

In celebration of Pl?cido Domingo's and Luciano Pavarotti's
twenty-fifth anniversaries with the company

GALA PERFORMANCE

Die Walk?re: Act I

Siedmund................Pl?cido Domingo
Sieglinde...............Waltraud Meier
Hunding.................Hans Sotin

Production..............Otto Schenk
Stage Director..........Phebe Berkowitz
Set designer............G?nther Schneider-Siemssen
Costume designer........Rolf Langenfass


Otello: Act I

Otello..................Luciano Pavarotti
Desdemona...............Kallen Esperian
Iago....................Sherrill Milnes
Cassio..................Mark (W.) Baker
Montano.................Kim Josephson
Roderigo................Charles Anthony

Production..............Franco Zeffirelli
Stage Director..........Fabrizio Melano
Set designer............Franco Zeffirelli
Costume designer........Peter J. Hall


Il Trovatore: Act III

Manrico.................Pl?cido Domingo
Manrico.................Luciano Pavarotti
Leonora.................Kallen Esperian
Di Luna.................Vladimir Chernov
Azucena.................Dolora Zajick
Ferrando................Paul Plishka
Ruiz....................Charles Anthony
Ruiz....................Pl?cido Domingo

Production..............Fabrizio Melano
Set designer............Ezio Frigerio
Costume designer........Franca Squarciapino

Conductor...............James Levine


Presentation
Joseph Volpe

Performance gift of The William T. Morris Foundation Incorporated

[For Act III of Il Trovatore, the role of Manrico was billed as "To Be Announced." Pl?cido Domingo began Act III, Scene 2 and sang Ah, si ben mio. Both Charles Anthony and Luciano Pavarotti entered as Ruiz (Domingo sang the line Pavarotti was to have sung). Pavarotti sang Di quella pira and was joined by Domingo for the final note.]





Presentation
Joseph Volpe
Performance gift of The William T. Morris Foundation Incorporated
For Act III of Il Trovatore, the role of Manrico was billed as "To Be Announced." Pl?cido Domingo began Act III, Scene 2 and sang Ah, si ben mio. Both Charles Anthony and Luciano Pavarotti entered as Ruiz (Domingo sang the line Pavarotti was to have sung). Pavarotti sang Di quella pira and was joined by Domingo for the final note.

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