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James Levine's 25th Anniversary

JAMES LEVINE 25TH ANNIVERSARY GALA

Rienzi: Overture - Meropolitan Opera Orchestra

Scenery for Act I of FRANCESCA DA RIMINI designed by Ezio Frigerio

Tannhäuser: Dich teure Halle - Deborah Voigt
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum - Vladimir Chernov
Le Nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete - Frederica von Stade
Don Carlo: Restate!...O signor, di Fiandra arrivo - Thomas Hampson/Roberto Scandiuzzi
Louise: Depuis le jour - Renée Fleming
L'Arlesiana: È la solita storia - Richard Leech
The Ghosts of Versailles: Act I Quartet - Hei-Kyung Hong/Wendy White/Christine Goerke/Håkan Hagegård
Un Ballo in Maschera: Fuggi fuggi - Ghena Dimitrova/Franco Farina/Juan Pons
Rusalka: Song to the Moon - Gabriela Benacková
L'Amico Fritz: Suzel buon dì - Angela Gheorghiu/Roberto Alagna
Giuditta: Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss - Ileana Cotrubas [Last appearance]
Don Carlo: O don fatale - Dolora Zajick
Die Walküre: Wotan's Farewell - James Morris

Scenery for Act II of ARABELLA designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen

Ernani: Final Trio - Deborah Voigt/Plácido Domingo/Roberto Scandiuzzi
Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Au fond du temple saint - Roberto Alagna/Bryn Terfel
Roméo et Juliette: Je veux vivre - Ruth Ann Swenson
Werther: Pourquoi me réveiller - Alfredo Kraus
La Damnation de Faust: D'amour l'ardente flamme - Jessye Norman
Le Nozze di Figaro: Deh vieni non tardar - Dawn Upshaw
The Land of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz - Jerry Hadley
Die Fledermaus: Dieser Anstand so manierlich - Karita Mattila/Håkan Hagegård
Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria - Sherrill Milnes
Tristan und Isolde: Narrative and Curse - Waltraud Meier
Don Pasquale: Cheti cheti - Mark Oswald/Paul Plishka
Luisa Miller: Quando le sere al placido - Carlo Bergonzi [Last appearance]
Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Act III Sextet - Florence Quivar/Diane Elias/Alfredo Kraus [Last Appearance]/Charles Anthony/James Courtney/Paul Plishka/Metropolitan Opera Chorus
La Forza del Destino: Madre pietosa Vergine - Sharon Sweet/Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Turandot: In questa reggia - Gwyneth Jones [Last appearance]/Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Nabucco: Va Pensiero- Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Nabucco: Del futuro nel buio discerno - Samuel Ramey

Scenery for Act II of TANNHAUSER designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen

I Lombardi: Act III Prelude and Qual voluttà trascorrere - June Anderson/Carlo Bergonzi [Last Appearance]/Ferruccio Furlanetto/Raymond Gniewek, Violin
Eugene Onegin: Final Scene - Catherine Malfitano/Dwayne Croft
Così Fan Tutte: Prenderò quel brunettino - Carol Vaness/Susanne Mentzer
Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix - Grace Bumbry [Last appearance]
Un Ballo in Maschera: Morrò ma prima in grazia - Aprile Millo
Porgy and Bess: My man's gone now - Maria Ewing
Götterdämmerung: Immolation Scene - Jane Eaglen
La Périchole: Ah quel diner je viens de faire - Frederica von Stade
Don Giovanni: Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata - Kiri Te Kanawa
Der Rosenkavalier: Final Trio - Renée Fleming/Anne Sofie von Otter/Heidi Grant Murphy
Faust: Act I Duet- Plácido Domingo/Samuel Ramey
Don Giovanni: Act II Sextet - Renée Fleming/Kiri Te Kanawa/Hei-Kyung Hong/Jerry Hadley/Bryn Terfel/Julien Robbins

Tribute to James Levine
Birgit Nilsson (who concluded her remarks with a few unaccompanied measures of Brünnhilde's Battle Cry)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III Finale - James King [Last appearance]/Bernd Weikl [Last appearance]/John Macurdy/Metropolitan Opera Chorus

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