side 1. Introduction (Peter Allen) ; Intermission feature (Peter Allen, host, with Gail Robinson and Howard Hook) ; Peter Allen -- side 2. Nabucco. Overture / Verdi ; Le nozze di Figaro. Hai già vinta la causa / Mozart (Nathan Gunn) ; Carmen. Sʹeguedille / Bizet (Svetlana Serdar) ; La bohème. Vecchia zimarra / Puccini (Mark McCrory) ; Roméo et Juliette. Je veux vivre / Gounod (Sheryl H. Cohen) ; Billy Budd. Claggart's monologue / Britten (Daniel Sumegi) ; Samson et Dalila. Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse / Saint-Saëns (Stephanie Blythe) ; Don Pasquale. Bella siccome un angelo / Donizetti (John Autry) ; The golden cockerel. Hymn to the sun / Rimsky-Korsakov (Olga Makarina) -- side 3. L'Elisir d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima / Donizetti (John Osborn) ; Carmen. Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante / Bizet (Norah Amsellem) ; La fille du régiment. Ah! mes amis / Donizetti (John Osborn) ; The Ballad of Baby Doe. The willow song / Moore (Sheryl H. Cohen) ; Il barbiere di Siviglia. Largo al factotum / Rossini (John Autry) ; Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Ach, ich liebte / Mozart (Olga Makarina) ; Eugene Onegin. Gremin's aria / Tchaikovsky (Daniel Sumegi) ; L'Italiana in Algeri. Cruda sorte / Rossini (Svetlana Serdar).
side 4. Le nozze di Figaro. Non più andrai / Mozart (Mark McCrory) ; Don Giovanni. Or sai chi l'onore / Mozart (Norah Amsellem) ; Die tote Stadt. Pierrot's Tanzlied / Korngold (Nathan Gunn) ; Lucrezia Borgia. Il segreto per esser felici / Donizetti (Stephanie Blythe) ; Closing remarks (Allen).
Call number
*LT-10-A 1597
Note
Title from house program.
Durations: 0:22:53 (synopses and features) ; 1:55:08 (concert).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
Event (note)
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1994.
Reproduction (note)
Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 744 (F)
Title
The 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council winners concert [sound recording]
Playing time
002253 015508
Series
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1994]
Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 27, 1994]
Performer
Various soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Carlo Rizzi, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.
Original version
Preservation tape, recorded at NYPL in Apr. 1995, from borrowed masters (3 tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.
Event
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 27, 1994.
Reproduction
Service copy (2 sound cassettes : analog, stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 744 (F)
Added author
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Nabucco. Sinfonia.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro. Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro.
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen. Près des remparts de Séville.