[Met Concert or Gala] CID:247000



Met Marathon
Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, New York, Fri, October 1, 1976 Broadcast





Met Marathon



Metropolitan Opera House
October 1, 1976 Broadcast

MET MARATHON

Master of Ceremonies: Robert Sherman

Turandot: Nessun dorma
John Alexander

Werther: Letter Scene
Rosalind Elias

Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria
Matteo Manuguerra

Il Trovatore: D'amor sull'ali rosee
Rita Hunter

Protheroe: Miss Kitty O'Toole
Cornell MacNeil

La Bohème: Mi chiamano Mimì
Roberta Peters

Don Giovanni: Madamina
Italo Tajo

Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide
Teresa Zylis-Gara

Falstaff: È sogno? O realtà?
Richard Stilwell

Tosti: 'a Vucchella; L'ultima canzone; L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra
Luciano Pavarotti

La Forza del Destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio!
Lucine Amara

Les Huguenots: Piff, Paff
Justino Díaz

Tannhäuser: Dich teure Halle
Hildegard Behrens [First Appearance]

La Forza del Destino: Invano Alvaro
Gianfranco Cecchele [First Appearance]
Mario Sereni

Madama Butterfly: Un bel dì
Renata Scotto

Roméo et Juliette: Je veux vivre
Judith Blegen

Les Huguenots: Grand duo for violin and cello
Raymond Gniewek, violin
Jascha Silberstein, cello

Don Carlo: O don fatale
Elena Obraztsova [First Appearance]

Don Carlo: Per me giunto
Louis Quilico

Hamlet: Mad Scene
Rita Shane

Otello: Credo
Guillermo Sarabia

I Vespri Siciliani: O tu Palermo
James Morris

Piano accompaniments by Gildo Di Nunzio,
Joan Dornemann, and Richard Woitach

[This concert was a fund-raising event performed before an audience of contributors and patrons of the Metropolitan Opera. It was broadcast nationally, and donations from listeners were pledged by phone.]







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