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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L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI:Rossini
Original Air Date: 02/21/1981
Rescigno; Horne, Blake, Berberian, Bruscantini
MOD Audio SID.19360214
This is the third of Horne’s four Met Isabellas. She is a noted Rossinian, a great advocate for young singers. She totally dominates the Isabella roster at the Met, also see Borodina with Furlanetto in the 21st century. Baltsa who has a very limited Met career did bring her Rossini heroines to Chicago but her recordings are more interesting, and Berganza even more so. WIsh the 2004 Italiana with Borodina, Florez, and Furlanetto would be rebroadcast. The men especially are extremely fine.
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L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI:Rossini
Original Air Date: 02/21/1981
Rescigno; Horne, Blake, Berberian, Bruscantini
MOD Audio SID.19360423
This is the third of Horne’s four Met Isabellas. She is a noted Rossinian, a great advocate for young singers. She totally dominates the Isabella roster at the Met, also see Borodina with Furlanetto in the 21st century. Baltsa who has a very limited Met career did bring her Rossini heroines to Chicago but her recordings are more interesting, and Berganza even more so. WIsh the 2004 Italiana with Borodina, Florez, and Furlanetto would be rebroadcast. The men especially are extremely fine.
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI:Rossini
Original Air Date: 02/21/1981
Rescigno; Horne, Blake, Berberian, Bruscantini
MOD Audio SID.19360746
This is the third of Horne’s four Met Isabellas. She is a noted Rossinian, a great advocate for young singers. She totally dominates the Isabella roster at the Met, also see Borodina with Furlanetto in the 21st century. Baltsa who has a very limited Met career did bring her Rossini heroines to Chicago but her recordings are more interesting, and Berganza even more so. WIsh the 2004 Italiana with Borodina, Florez, and Furlanetto would be rebroadcast. The men especially are extremely fine.
LA TRAVIATA:Verdi
Levine; Cotrubas, Domingo, MacNeil
Original Air Date: 03/28/1981
MOD Audio
SID.19440315
This is Cotrubas’s Violetta and wasalso simulcast. MOoD now offers BOTH the audio version of this (which has been available for some time, but now the video as well. Cotrubas is very much in the mainstream of interpretation MOoD offers audios of Ponselle, Steber, Fleming, Gheorghiu (another fine Romanian and she has TWO versions one with Valenti, and another one with Kaufman , but amazingly there is no Albanese (really two AG and no LA?), Sutherland, Moffo, in MOoD and neither Maliponte or Cruz-Romo or Chiara even on Sirius (though they all had broadcasts.
LA TRAVIATA:Verdi
Levine; Cotrubas, Domingo, MacNeil
Original Air Date: 03/28/1981
MOD Audio
SID.19440531
This is Cotrubas’s Violetta and wasalso simulcast. MOoD now offers BOTH the audio version of this (which has been available for some time, but now the video as well. Cotrubas is very much in the mainstream of interpretation MOoD offers audios of Ponselle, Steber, Fleming, Gheorghiu (another fine Romanian and she has TWO versions one with Valenti, and another one with Kaufman , but amazingly there is no Albanese (really two AG and no LA?), Sutherland, Moffo, in MOoD and neither Maliponte or Cruz-Romo or Chiara even on Sirius (though they all had broadcasts.
LA TRAVIATA:Verdi
Levine; Cotrubas, Domingo, MacNeil
Original Air Date: 03/28/1981
MOD Audio
SID.19440315
This is Cotrubas’s Violetta and wasalso simulcast. MOoD now offers BOTH the audio version of this (which has been available for some time, but now the video as well. Cotrubas is very much in the mainstream of interpretation MOoD offers audios of Ponselle, Steber, Fleming, Gheorghiu (another fine Romanian and she has TWO versions one with Valenti, and another one with Kaufman , but amazingly there is no Albanese (really two AG and no LA?), Sutherland, Moffo, in MOoD and neither Maliponte or Cruz-Romo or Chiara even on Sirius (though they all had broadcasts.
LULU:Berg
Levine; Stratas, Mazura, Lear, Riegel, Foldi
Original Air Date: 01/03/1981
SID.19470315
This is Stratas’ only Lulu broadcast from the Met, and by everyone’s reckoning it is a strong cast. The telecast was done a few weeks earlier with Julia Migenes in the title role replacing Stratas. That is available on DVD issued by the Met
Puccini
Levine; Zylis-Gara, Ciannella, Elvira, Capecchi
Original Air Date: 03/21/1981
SID.19470316
This is not the most common of Met Manon Lescaut casts, but Zylis-Gara has some lovely moments, and so does Ciannella even if he is much more tried by the vocal demands of the role. Elvira who left us too soon makes for a fine Lescaut. There are better Manon Lescauts in the broadcast archive that have not yet been rebroadcast, but Zylis-Gara and Ciannella are not without their interest.
Puccini
Levine; Zylis-Gara, Ciannella, Elvira, Capecchi
Original Air Date: 03/21/1981
SID.19470532
This is not the most common of Met Manon Lescaut casts, but Zylis-Gara has some lovely moments, and so does Ciannella even if he is much more tried by the vocal demands of the role. Elvira who left us too soon makes for a fine Lescaut. There are better Manon Lescauts in the broadcast archive that have not yet been rebroadcast, but Zylis-Gara and Ciannella are not without their interest.
LULU:Berg
Levine; Stratas, Mazura, Lear, Riegel, Foldi
Original Air Date: 01/03/1981
SID.19470534
This is Stratas’ only Lulu broadcast from the Met, and by everyone’s reckoning it is a strong cast. The telecast was done a few weeks earlier with Julia Migenes in the title role replacing Stratas. That is available on DVD issued by the Met
LULU:Berg
Levine; Stratas, Mazura, Lear, Riegel, Foldi
Original Air Date: 01/03/1981
SID.19470744
This is Stratas’ only Lulu broadcast from the Met, and by everyone’s reckoning it is a strong cast. The telecast was done a few weeks earlier with Julia Migenes in the title role replacing Stratas. That is available on DVD issued by the Met
Puccini
Levine; Zylis-Gara, Ciannella, Elvira, Capecchi
Original Air Date: 03/21/1981
SID.19470748
This is not the most common of Met Manon Lescaut casts, but Zylis-Gara has some lovely moments, and so does Ciannella even if he is much more tried by the vocal demands of the role. Elvira who left us too soon makes for a fine Lescaut. There are better Manon Lescauts in the broadcast archive that have not yet been rebroadcast, but Zylis-Gara and Ciannella are not without their interest.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE:Mozart
Foster; Popp, Kuebler, Duesing, Donat, Macurdy
Original Air Date: 02/07/1981
MOD Audio
SID.20090208
Lucia Popp made her debut with the Chagall Flute as Queen of the Night, the first season in the new house. She didn’t broadcast the role until three years later, and then 11 years later moves down to Pamina in this broadcast She’s a very fine Pamina, but overall not impressed by the remainder of the cast. The main distinction here is Popp’s Pamina, and she is one of the best. The rest of the cast is OK, but there are other broadcasts of more distinction in the other roles.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE:Mozart
Foster; Popp, Kuebler, Duesing, Donat, Macurdy
Original Air Date: 02/07/1981
MOD Audio
SID.20090424
Lucia Popp made her debut with the Chagall Flute as Queen of the Night, the first season in the new house. She didn’t broadcast the role until three years later, and then 11 years later moves down to Pamina in this broadcast She’s a very fine Pamina, but overall not impressed by the remainder of the cast. The main distinction here is Popp’s Pamina, and she is one of the best. The rest of the cast is OK, but there are other broadcasts of more distinction in the other roles.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE:Mozart
Foster; Popp, Kuebler, Duesing, Donat, Macurdy
Original Air Date: 02/07/1981
MOD Audio
SID.20090641
Lucia Popp made her debut with the Chagall Flute as Queen of the Night, the first season in the new house. She didn’t broadcast the role until three years later, and then 11 years later moves down to Pamina in this broadcast She’s a very fine Pamina, but overall not impressed by the remainder of the cast. The main distinction here is Popp’s Pamina, and she is one of the best. The rest of the cast is OK, but there are other broadcasts of more distinction in the other roles.