Levine/The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra And Chorus / James Levine - Celebrating 40 Years At The Met / [21 DVD]

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Album Summary

Performers

• Carol Vaness (Soprano)
• Frederica Von Stade (Mezzo Soprano)
• Thomas Allen (Baritone)
• Gabriel Bacquier (Tenor)
• Philip Creech (Tenor)
• Cornell MacNeil (Baritone)
• Vasile Moldoveanu (Tenor)
• Betsy Norden (Soprano)
• Renata Scotto (Soprano)
• Italo Tajo (Bass)
• Jocelyne Taillon (Mezzo Soprano)
• Nicolai Gedda (Tenor)
• Martti Talvela (Bass)
• Jon Vickers (Tenor)
• Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano)
• Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano)
• Judith Blegen (Soprano)
• Evelyn Lear (Soprano)
• Derek Hammond-Stroud (Baritone)
• Franz Mazura (Baritone)
• Kurt Moll (Bass)
• Julia Migenes (Soprano)
• Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor)
• Kenneth Riegel (Tenor)
• Hildegard Behrens (Soprano)
• Graham Clark (Tenor)
• Brigitte Fassbaender (Mezzo Soprano)
• Katarina Dalayman (Soprano)
• James King (Tenor)
• Michael Devlin (Bass Baritone)
• Donald McIntyre (Bass)
• Wolfgang Neumann (Tenor)
• Deborah Voigt (Soprano)
• Falk Struckmann (Baritone)
• Paul Plishka (Bass)
• Sherrill Milnes (Baritone)
• Jerome Hines (Bass)
• Marilyn Horne (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ragnar Ulfung (Tenor)
• Gino Quilico (Baritone)
• Astrid Varnay (Soprano)
• Teresa Stratas (Soprano)
• Richard Cassilly (Tenor)
• Kathleen Battle (Soprano)
• Ruggero Raimondi (Bass)
• Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Håkan Hagegård (Baritone)

Conductor

• Levine, James

Ensemble

• Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Composers

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• John Corigliano (1938 - )
• Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)

Notes & Reviews:

"An extraordinary career deserves an extraordinary tribute - which is exactly what the Metropolitan Opera has accomplished to mark the fortieth anniversary of James Levine's 1971 company debut...In celebration of Levine's forty-year Met career, the Met has issued two boxed sets of Levine performances, all captured live, and most of which have never been previously available in any format...the sets stand as a fitting testament to an era and a career that will never be equaled - and deliver the goods at a very fair price." -Opera News

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Works Details

Berg, Alban : Lulu

• Performers: Evelyn Lear (Soprano); Franz Mazura (Baritone); Julia Migenes (Soprano); Kenneth Riegel (Tenor)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1929-1935

Berg, Alban : Wozzeck, Op. 7

• Performers: Graham Clark (Tenor); Katarina Dalayman (Soprano); Michael Devlin (Bass Baritone); Wolfgang Neumann (Tenor); Falk Struckmann (Baritone)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1917-1922

Corigliano, John : The Ghosts of Versailles

• Performers: Renée Fleming (Soprano); Graham Clark (Tenor); Håkan Hagegård (Baritone); Marilyn Horne (Mezzo Soprano); Gino Quilico (Baritone); Teresa Stratas (Soprano)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1991

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492

• Performers: Kathleen Battle (Soprano); Ruggero Raimondi (Bass); Carol Vaness (Soprano); Frederica Von Stade (Mezzo Soprano); Thomas Allen (Baritone)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1786

Puccini, Giacomo : Il Trittico

• Performers: Gabriel Bacquier (Tenor); Philip Creech (Tenor); Cornell MacNeil (Baritone); Vasile Moldoveanu (Tenor); Betsy Norden (Soprano); Renata Scotto (Soprano); Italo Tajo (Bass); Jocelyne Taillon (Mezzo Soprano)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1918

Smetana, Bedrich : Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93

• Performers: Nicolai Gedda (Tenor); Teresa Stratas (Soprano); Martti Talvela (Bass); Jon Vickers (Tenor)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1863-1870

Strauss, Richard : Der Rosenkavalier

• Performers: Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano); Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano); Judith Blegen (Soprano); Derek Hammond-Stroud (Baritone); Kurt Moll (Bass); Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1909-1910

Strauss, Richard : Elektra

• Performers: Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); Brigitte Fassbaender (Mezzo Soprano); James King (Tenor); Donald McIntyre (Bass); Deborah Voigt (Soprano)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1906-1908

Verdi, Giuseppe : Don Carlos

• Performers: Paul Plishka (Bass); Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano); Vasile Moldoveanu (Tenor); Renata Scotto (Soprano); Sherrill Milnes (Baritone); Jerome Hines (Bass)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Weill, Kurt : Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera

• Performers: Cornell MacNeil (Baritone); Teresa Stratas (Soprano); Ragnar Ulfung (Tenor); Astrid Varnay (Soprano); Richard Cassilly (Tenor)
• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 04/1927-04/1929