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The Inaugural Season: Extraordinary Met Performances From 1966-67

Jon Vickers (Grimes), Lucine Amara (Ellen Orford), Geraint Evans (Balstrode), Leontyne Price (Cleopatra), Justino Díaz (Antony), Jess Thomas (Octavius Caesar), Ezio Flagello (Enobarbus), Rosalind Elias (Charmian), Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calaf), Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard...

This beautifully produced box…with ten complete broadcast operas, ...is a time capsule, a treasure trove, and adds up to much more than a snapshot of a very special season — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017
  • Release Date: 16th Dec 2016
  • Catalogue No: 1135701822
  • Label: Metropolitan Opera

22 CDs

$125.25

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Contents

Britten: Peter Grimes

  • Jon Vickers (Grimes), Lucine Amara (Ellen Orford), Geraint Evans (Balstrode)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Sir Colin Davis

Barber: Antony & Cleopatra

  • world premiere
  • Leontyne Price (Cleopatra), Justino Díaz (Antony), Jess Thomas (Octavius Caesar), Ezio Flagello (Enobarbus), Rosalind Elias (Charmian)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Thomas Schippers

Puccini: Turandot

  • Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calaf)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Zubin Mehta

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

  • Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Edgardo), Anselmo Colzani (Enrico), Nicola Ghiuselev (Raimondo)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Richard Bonynge

Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten

  • Leonie Rysanek (Kaiserin), Christa Ludwig (Färberin), Irene Dalis (Amme), James King (Kaiser), Walter Berry (Barak)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Karl Böhm

Verdi: Aida

  • Leontyne Price (Aida), Carlo Bergonzi (Radames), Grace Bumbry (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Thomas Schippers

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620

  • Judith Raskin (Pamina), Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night), George Shirley (Tamino), Theodor Uppman (Papageno), John Macurdy (Sarastro)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Josef Krips

Verdi: Otello

  • James McCracken (Otello), Montserrat Caballé (Desdemona), Tito Gobbi (Iago)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Zubin Mehta

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

  • Renata Scotto (Butterfly), George Shirley (Pinkerton), Ron Bottcher (Sharpless), Nedda Casei (Suzuki)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Molinari-Pradelli

Verdi: Rigoletto

  • Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Nicolai Gedda (Il Duca di Mantova), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Sparafucile), Belén Amparon (Maddalena)
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Lamberto Gardelli

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