[Met Concert or Gala] CID:352057



A Tribute to Beverly Sills
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, September 16, 2007 Matinee
Broadcast Matinee





A Tribute to Beverly Sills



Metropolitan Opera House
September 16, 2007 Broadcast


A Tribute to Beverly Sills 1929-2007

Remarks
Peter Gelb
General Manager, Metropolitan Opera

Handel: Ombra mai fù
Plácido Domingo
James Levine [piano]

Remarks
Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor, City of New York

Remarks
Barbara Walters

Remarks
Carol Burnett

Rimsky-Korsakov: Nightingale and the Rose
Anna Netrebko
Craig Rutenberg [piano]

Remarks
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Chairman, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Remarks
Susan Baker
Chairman of the Board, New York City Opera

Schubert: An die Musik
John Relyea
Craig Rutenberg [piano]

Remarks
Stanley Sills

Remarks
Nathan Leventhal
Former President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Remarks
Julius Rudel
Conductor, Former General Director, New York City Opera

R. Strauss: Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden
Natalie Dessay
Craig Rutenberg [piano]

Remarks
Henry Kissinger

The memorial concert was a cooperative effort of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera and was open to the public without charge

Broadcast live on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio







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