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Background

The Metropolitan Opera's first performance was given on 22 October 1883 at its former home on the junction of Broadway and 39th Street in New York City: a staging of Charles Gounod's Faust starring Italo Campanini in the title role and Christine Nilsson as Marguerite. With the one hundredth anniversary of that occasion chancing to fall on a Saturday, the Met chose to commemorate its centenary with a two-part gala comprising a matinée at 2 p.m. and an evening session at 8 p.m.[1]

More than seventy singers were invited to participate, chosen either for their eminence or their long association with the house. Performing on a series of sets created by the most distinguished designers in the Met's history, they sang arias, duets and ensembles from an eclectic range of operas as well as a few items drawn from other genres. There were also contributions from the Met's chorus and resident ballet company as well as some purely orchestral selections.[1]

The entire event was broadcast live on both radio and television in the United States and in some other countries. The US television broadcast was supported by a grant from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, Inc., with supplementary help from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, Inc., and the National Endowment For the Arts. The production of Deutsche Grammophon's DVD of the gala was supported by the Charles A. Dana Foundation.[1][2]

Production

Performances

Matinee session[3][1]

Performer(s) Piece Opera Composer Conductor Home media
Anthony A. Bliss Spoken greeting N/A N/A N/A ☒N
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Overture The Bartered Bride Bedřich Smetana James Levine checkY
Éva Marton "In questa reggia" Turandot Giacomo Puccini Levine checkY
Jessye Norman and Jess Thomas Act I Duet Die Walkure ’’’Richard Wagner’’’ Levine ☒N
Kiri Te Kanawa "E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti" Le nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Levine checkY
Isola Jones, Shirley Love, Louise Wohlafka, Charles Anthony, James Courtney Act II Quintet Carmen ’’’Georges Bizet Levine ☒N
James McCracken "Dio! Mi potevi scagliar", Otello Giuseppe Verdi Levine checkY
Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Bess you is my woman now Porgy and Bess ’’’George Gershwin’’’ Levine ☒N
Régine Crespin Habañera Carmen Bizet Levine ☒N
Ruggero Raimondi "La calunnia è un venticello" Il barbiere di Siviglia Gioachino Rossini Richard Bonynge checkY
Dano Raffanti, Brian Schexnayder, Roberta Peters, Julien Robbins, Loretta Di Franco and Robert Nagy Sextet Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Bonynge checkY
James Morris Medley The Man of La Mancha ? Bonynge ☒N
Joan Sutherland "Bel raggio lusinghier", Semiramide Rossini Bonynge checkY
Metropolitan Opera Chorus Prelude: "Son io! Son io la vita" (Hymn to the Sun) Iris Pietro Mascagni David Stivender checkY
Frederica von Stade and Judith Blegen "Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren" Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Jeffrey Tate checkY
Richard Cassilly When the sky grows brighter Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ’’’[[[Kurt Weill]]’’’ Tate ☒N
Betsy Norden and Christian Boesch Papagena-Papageno Duet Die Zauberflöte Mozart Tate ☒N
Catherine Malfitano and Alfredo Kraus "Va! Je t'ai pardonné... Nuit d'hyménée" Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod Tate checkY
Nicolai Gedda "Una furtive lagrima" L'elisir d'amore Donizetti Levine checkY
Bianca Berini and Louis Quilico Reverenza Falstaff Verdi Levine ☒N
Anna Tomowa-Sintow "Surta è la note... Ernani! Ernani, involami" Ernani Verdi Levine checkY
Elisabeth Söderström, Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade "Hab mir's gelobt" Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Levine checkY
Plácido Domingo (Otello) and Mirella Freni "Già nella notte densa" Otello Verdi Levine checkY

Evening session[4][1]

Performer(s) Piece Opera Composer Conductor Home media
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonore Overture No. 3 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Leonard Bernstein checkY
José Carreras and Montserrat Caballé "Vicino a te s'acqueta l'irrequieta anima" Andrea Chénier Umberto Giordano Levine checkY
Paul Plishka Prince Gremin's Aria Eugene Onegin ’’’[[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]’’’ Levine ☒N
Giuseppe Giacomini Ch'ella mi creda La Fanciulla del West Puccini Levine ☒N
Myra Merritt and John Cheek Là ci darem la mano Don Giovanni: Mozart John Pritchard ☒N
Gösta Winbergh and Vernon Hartman O Mimì tu più non torni La Bohème Puccini Pritchard ☒N
Ileana Cotrubas "L'année en vain chasse l'année" L'enfant prodigue Claude Debussy Pritchard checkY
Mariella Devia and Jean Kraft Viens Mallika Lakmé ’’’Leo Delibes’’’ Pritchard ☒N
Barbara Daniels and Italo Tajo Signorina in tanta fretta Don Pasquale Donizetti Pritchard ☒N
Carol Neblett and Simon Estes Wie aus der Ferne Der Fliegende Holländer Wagner Levine ☒N
Andrea Velis and Cornell MacNeil Ebbene Donnina innamorata; Nemico della patria Andrea Chénier Giordano Levine ☒N
Martina Arroyo and Mignon Dunn Fu la sorte Aida: Verdi Levine ☒N
Linda Gelinas (dancer), Ricardo Costa (dancer) and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Bacchanale (ballet) Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saëns Levine checkY
Ermanno Mauro and Pablo Elvira Act I Duet Don Carlo Verdi Thomas Fulton ☒N
Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill Sweethearts Maytime: ? Fulton ☒N
Johanna Meier, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, John Alexander, John Macurdy Quintet Vanessa ’’’Samuel Barber’’’ Fulton ☒N
Jerome Hines Vecchia zimarra La Bohème Puccini Fulton ☒N
Lucine Amara and Bianca Berini L'amo come il fulgor del creato! La Gioconda ’’’Amilcare Ponchielli’’’ Fulton ☒N
Renato Bruson and Grace Bumbry "Donna, chi sei?" Nabucco Verdi Fulton checkY
Nicolai Ghiaurov, Katia Ricciarelli and William Lewis "Alerte! Ou vous êtes perdus!" Faust Gounod Levine checkY
Giuliano Ciannella and Leona Mitchell "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia" Madama Butterfly Puccini Levine checkY
Timothy Jenkins Allmächt'ger Vater Rienzi Wagner Levine ☒N
Edda Moser, Diane Kesling, David Rendall, Gail Dubinbaum, Ara Berberian, John Darrenkamp, Sesto Bruscantini, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus "Pria di dividerci de voi, signore" L'italiana in Algeri Rossini Levine checkY
Neil Shicoff, Michael Best, and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus Va pour Kleinzach Les Contes d'Hoffmann ’’’Jacques Offenbach’’’ Levine ☒N
Marilyn Horne "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns Levine checkY
Birgit Nilsson "Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen" (Narrative and Curse) Tristan und Isolde Wagner Levine checkY
Birgit Nilsson "Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var" ("When I was seventeen") N/A Traditional Levine checkY
Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price "Teco io sto" – "Gran dio!" Un ballo in maschera Verdi Levine checkY
Full Company "Happy birthday to you" N/A Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill (attributed) N/A checkY
  1. ^ a b c d e The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala, Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4548, 2009
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