Met Matinées
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Theo Adam (Hans Sachs), James King (Walther), Pilar Lorengar (Eva), Benno Kusche (Beckmesser), Ezio Flagello (Pogner), Loren Driscoll (David), Shirley Love (Magdalene), Donald Gramm (Kothner), James Morris (Hans Schwarz)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Benno Kusche offers a vivid, traditional Beckmesser; and Ezio Flagello is a fine Pogner — More…
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Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon
Risë Stevens (Mignon), Mimi Benzell (Philine), James Melton (Wilhelm Meister), Ezio Pinza (Lothario), Lucielle Browning (Frédéric), Donald Dame (Laërte), John Gurney (Jarno), Osie Hawkins (Antonio)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Wilfrid Pelletier
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Nello Santi conducts Mascagni & Leoncavallo
Eileen Farrell (Santuzza), Richard Tucker (Turiddu), Cesare Bardelli (Alfio), Mildred Miller (Lola), Lili Chookasian (Mamma Lucia), Franco Corelli (Canio), Lucine Amara (Nedda), Anselmo Colzani (Tonio), Franco Ghitti (Beppe), Calvin Marsh (Silvio)
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Bizet: Carmen
Risë Stevens (Carmen), Richard Tucker (Don José), Nadine Conner (Micaëla), Paolo Silveri (Escamillo), Lucine Amara (Frasquita), Margaret Roggero (Mercédès), George Cehanovsky (Le Dancaïre), Alessio De Paolis (Le Remendado), Clifford Harvuot (Moralès), Osie Hawkins (Zuniga)
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Lily Pons (Marie), Raoul Jobin (Tonio), Irra Petina & Salvatore Baccaloni (Sulpice), Irra Petina (La Marquise), Louis D'Angelo (Hortensius), Wilfred Engelman (Corporale), Lodovico Oliviero (Un Paysan), Maria Savage (La Duchesse)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Gennaro Papi
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Puccini: La Bohème
Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Licia Albanese (Mimì), Mario Sereni (Marcello), Laurel Hurley (Musetta), Norman Scott (Colline) & Clifford Harvuot (Schaunard)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Schippers's control of the ensembles is exemplary...[Albanese] is the most fragile Mimi I've ever heard...[Bergonzi] has absolute ease with Rodolfo's music...This thoroughly idiomatic performance... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Leonie Rysanek (Elisabetta), Irene Dalis (Eboli), Franco Corelli (Don Carlo), Nicolae Herlea (Rodrigo), Giorgio Tozzi (Filippo II), Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore), Marcia Baldwin (Tebaldo), Junetta Jones (Una voce dal cielo), Justino Díaz (Un Frate)
Metropolitan Opera, Kurt Adler
Corelli, one of the period's most viscerally exciting tenors, adds high notes and generally shows off, but in a way that is regularly thrilling. Leonie Rysanek's Elisabetta possesses discretion... — More…
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Verdi: Ernani
Carlo Bergonzi (Ernani), Leontyne Price (Elvira), Cornell MacNeil (Carlo), Giorgio Tozzi (Silva), Robert Nagy (Riccardo), Roald Reitan (Iago), Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Schippers
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Birgit Nilsson (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Hermann Uhde (Don Pizarro), Oskar Czerwenka (Rocco), Laurel Hurley (Marzelline), Charles Anthony (Jaquino) and Giorgio Tozzi (Don Fernando)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Karl Böhm
There is much to recommend this performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, recorded in clean mono sound. Karl Böhm was an immensely experienced conductor of this opera, and his account of the Leonore... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Roberta Peters (Gilda), Robert Merrill (Rigoletto), Richard Tucker (Il Duca di Mantova), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Sparafucile), Mignon Dunn (Maddalena), Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna), John Macurdy (Monterone), Calvin Marsh (Marullo), Arthur Graham (Borsa), Robert Patterson (Il Conte di Ceprano), Joy Clements...
essentially a decent house revival of an old production...Richard Tucker keeps the Duke of Mantua light on his feet. Robert Merrill's gruff jester has plenty of voice, too, though again giving... — More…
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