In this 11th year, over ten nights performances from the Met’s Live in HD series will be shown starting with a screening of FUNNY FACE in a special co-presentation with Film at Lincoln Center. Screenings run from August 23 through September 2. There will be 3000 seats in the Plaza in front of the Opera House with an additional standing room area. Cancellations due to thunder/lighting or high wind will not be rescheduled.
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NORMA:Bellini
Original Air Date: 02/17/1973
Cillario; Caballé, Cossotto, Cossutta, Tozzi
MOD Audio SID.19340639
This is from Caballe’s first run at Norma with the reliable Cossotto; they are certainly a team. Cossutta missed the premiere, and this is his debut; he would go on to do 12 more Polliones with Caballe, Galvany, and Verrett and that is his Met career. Tozzi would not be my choice for Oroveso. Norma is one of Caballe’s best roles.
LA GIOCONDA:Ponchielli
Cleva; Tebaldi, Bergonzi, MacNeil, Cossotto, Giaiotti
Original Air Date: 03/02/1968
MOD Audio
SID.19430211
This is Tebaldi’s second broadcast of the street singer, and what a sensational cast the Met surrounds her with. Bergonzi did a run with Bumbry eleven years later but that was not broadcast. Tebaldi’s first broadcast a year earlier has also been on Sirius, and is also on MOoD. The earlier broadcast has Morrell (replacing Corelli) and Elias in the Bergonzi and Cossotto parts. Siepi and Giaiotti are both top class Alvises. The Met listing leaves off Dunn, and Cieca is definitely one of the star parts. This is Tebaldi’s second Gioconda broadcast, and despite the wear and tear from 32 Met Giocondas in two years — it is her final Gioconda. Bing serves up A+ colleagues for her, and it is a rousing afternoon. This performance is on Met Player, highly recommend.
LA GIOCONDA:Ponchielli
Cleva; Tebaldi, Bergonzi, MacNeil, Cossotto, Giaiotti
Original Air Date: 03/02/1968
MOD Audio
SID.19430423
This is Tebaldi’s second broadcast of the street singer, and what a sensational cast the Met surrounds her with. Bergonzi did a run with Bumbry eleven years later but that was not broadcast. Tebaldi’s first broadcast a year earlier has also been on Sirius, and is also on MOoD. The earlier broadcast has Morrell (replacing Corelli) and Elias in the Bergonzi and Cossotto parts. Siepi and Giaiotti are both top class Alvises. The Met listing leaves off Dunn, and Cieca is definitely one of the star parts. This is Tebaldi’s second Gioconda broadcast, and despite the wear and tear from 32 Met Giocondas in two years — it is her final Gioconda. Bing serves up A+ colleagues for her, and it is a rousing afternoon. This performance is on Met Player, highly recommend.
LA GIOCONDA:Ponchielli
Cleva; Tebaldi, Bergonzi, MacNeil, Cossotto, Giaiotti
Original Air Date: 03/02/1968
MOD Audio
SID.19430744
This is Tebaldi’s second broadcast of the street singer, and what a sensational cast the Met surrounds her with. Bergonzi did a run with Bumbry eleven years later but that was not broadcast. Tebaldi’s first broadcast a year earlier has also been on Sirius, and is also on MOoD. The earlier broadcast has Morrell (replacing Corelli) and Elias in the Bergonzi and Cossotto parts. Siepi and Giaiotti are both top class Alvises. The Met listing leaves off Dunn, and Cieca is definitely one of the star parts. This is Tebaldi’s second Gioconda broadcast, and despite the wear and tear from 32 Met Giocondas in two years — it is her final Gioconda. Bing serves up A+ colleagues for her, and it is a rousing afternoon. This performance is on Met Player, highly recommend.
Verdi
Levine; Tomowa-Sintow, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Manuguerra, Kavrakos
Original Air Date: 03/29/1986
SID.19520106
This is Pavarotti’s third performance at the Met as Radames and first broadcast, and surprisingly it is NOT on MOoD. Tomowa-Sintow is strong casting for Aida, but it’s getting late for Cossotto whose only 2 broadcast Amnerises from the Met are the Price farewell in 1985 and this performance a few months later. Manuguerra is an Amonasro such as we can only dream about today. Pavarotti has a second broadcast 15 years later with Voigt Borodina, and Delavan. I think this 1986 performance is more deserving of immortalization (but at the minimum should be included). I would also note this is the last broadcast of Robert Nagy asMessenger,though he does another dozen over the coming year. His 172 total is the Met record exceeding by a healthy margin Pietro Audisio at 113 and Giordano Paltrinieri (100) both from early in the century. Met operagoers for almost 4 decades heard (it was one of the more penetrating voices to ever grace the Met stage and who went on to leads such as Emperor in Frau and 3 Otellos on the Met tour in 1972 replacing McCracken.
Verdi
Levine; Tomowa-Sintow, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Manuguerra, Kavrakos
Original Air Date: 03/29/1986
SID.19520317
This is Pavarotti’s third performance at the Met as Radames and first broadcast, and surprisingly it is NOT on MOoD. Tomowa-Sintow is strong casting for Aida, but it’s getting late for Cossotto whose only 2 broadcast Amnerises from the Met are the Price farewell in 1985 and this performance a few months later. Manuguerra is an Amonasro such as we can only dream about today. Pavarotti has a second broadcast 15 years later with Voigt Borodina, and Delavan. I think this 1986 performance is more deserving of immortalization (but at the minimum should be included). I would also note this is the last broadcast of Robert Nagy asMessenger,though he does another dozen over the coming year. His 172 total is the Met record exceeding by a healthy margin Pietro Audisio at 113 and Giordano Paltrinieri (100) both from early in the century. Met operagoers for almost 4 decades heard (it was one of the more penetrating voices to ever grace the Met stage and who went on to leads such as Emperor in Frau and 3 Otellos on the Met tour in 1972 replacing McCracken.
Verdi
Levine; Tomowa-Sintow, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Manuguerra, Kavrakos
Original Air Date: 03/29/1986
SID.19520533
This is Pavarotti’s third performance at the Met as Radames and first broadcast, and surprisingly it is NOT on MOoD. Tomowa-Sintow is strong casting for Aida, but it’s getting late for Cossotto whose only 2 broadcast Amnerises from the Met are the Price farewell in 1985 and this performance a few months later. Manuguerra is an Amonasro such as we can only dream about today. Pavarotti has a second broadcast 15 years later with Voigt Borodina, and Delavan. I think this 1986 performance is more deserving of immortalization (but at the minimum should be included). I would also note this is the last broadcast of Robert Nagy asMessenger,though he does another dozen over the coming year. His 172 total is the Met record exceeding by a healthy margin Pietro Audisio at 113 and Giordano Paltrinieri (100) both from early in the century. Met operagoers for almost 4 decades heard (it was one of the more penetrating voices to ever grace the Met stage and who went on to leads such as Emperor in Frau and 3 Otellos on the Met tour in 1972 replacing McCracken.
FALSTAFF:Verdi
Levine; Taddei, Neblett, Monk, Cossotto, Blegen, Ahlstedt
Original Air Date: 03/08/1986
MOD Audio
SID.20050316
Its particularly good to have this performance back on the radio. Taddei and Cossotto make a most interesting pair, and I’m sorry she did not do more of the part. I don’t have strong memories of Neblett and Monk. Taddei who came very late to the Met did this run of Falstaff followed by a run in L’elisir which was broadcast and has been on Sirius. If they run that performance again I will check it out. Taddei’s actual Met farewell is as Dulcamara in Met in the Pennsauken Cooper River Park in New Jersey with Hong as his Adina. Taddei appeared as both Scarpia and Rigoletto in Philadelphia (both with Tucker) and I also saw his Leporello in Dallas (with Sutherland and the EMI gang), Germont (with Callas) and much later Leporello again in San Francisco with Siepi. The Met was not starving for good baritones in those days, so we got too little of him and very late. He has a nice non-Met legacy of studio and live performances. He died at 93 June 2, 2010.
FALSTAFF:Verdi
Levine; Taddei, Neblett, Monk, Cossotto, Blegen, Ahlstedt
Original Air Date: 03/08/1986
MOD Audio
SID.20050636
Its particularly good to have this performance back on the radio. Taddei and Cossotto make a most interesting pair, and I’m sorry she did not do more of the part. I don’t have strong memories of Neblett and Monk. Taddei who came very late to the Met did this run of Falstaff followed by a run in L’elisir which was broadcast and has been on Sirius. If they run that performance again I will check it out. Taddei’s actual Met farewell is as Dulcamara in Met in the Pennsauken Cooper River Park in New Jersey with Hong as his Adina. Taddei appeared as both Scarpia and Rigoletto in Philadelphia (both with Tucker) and I also saw his Leporello in Dallas (with Sutherland and the EMI gang), Germont (with Callas) and much later Leporello again in San Francisco with Siepi. The Met was not starving for good baritones in those days, so we got too little of him and very late. He has a nice non-Met legacy of studio and live performances. He died at 93 June 2, 2010.