Mignon. Oui, pour ce soir...Je suis Titania... / Ambroise Thomas (Dahl/Bernardi/TMC) -- Lakmé. Viens, Mallika...dôme épais où le blanc jasmin... / Léo Delibes (Bayrakdarian/Robbin/Bernardi) -- Les Pêcheurs de perles. Au fond du temple saint... / Georges Bizet (Schade/Braun/Bradshaw) -- Hamlet. Drinking song: O vin dissipe... / Ambroise Thomas (Polegato/Bradshaw/TMC) -- La Périchole. Griserie Ariette: Ah! Quel dîner... / Jacques Offenbach (Stilwell/Bradshaw) -- Lucia di Lammermoor. Sextet: Chi mi frena in tal momento? / Gaetano Donizetti (Dahl/Stilwell/Margison/Schade/Quilico/Pomakov/Bradshaw/TMC) -- Semiramide. Bel raggio... / Gioacchino Rossini (Bayrakdarian/Bradshaw) -- Don Giovanni. Dalla sua pace... / W.A. Mozart (Schade/Bradshaw) -- Der Rosenkavalier. Trio: Marie Theres'...Hab' mir's gelobt... / Richard Strauss (Pieczonka/Dahl/Stilwell/Bernardi) -- La Wally. Ebben, ne andro lontana... / Alfredo Catalani (Brüggergosman/Bernardi) -- La traviata. Di Provenza il mar... / Giuseppe Verdi (Westman/Bernardi) -- Aïda. Se quel guerrier io fossi!...Celeste Aïda... / Giuseppe Verdi (Margison/Bernardi) -- Tosca. Vissi d'arte / Giacomo Puccini (Pieczonka/Bradshaw) -- Turandot. In questa reggia... ; Nessun dorma... / Giacomo Puccini (Ginzer/Margison/Bernardi/TMC) -- La traviata. Libiamo... / Giuseppe Verdi (Tutti/Bradshaw/TMC) -- O Canada / Calixa Lavallée; arr. by G. Ridout (Tutti/Bradshaw/TMC).
Note
Booklet ([22] p.) of program notes in English and French inserted in case.
Event (note)
Recorded live on Friday, December 31, 1999 at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto and the two-and-one-half hour concert broadcast live on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Two network on the concert programme "In Performance".
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Title
Millennium opera gala [electronic resource] = Gala d'opéra du millénaire : Roy Thomson Hall : [highlights]. --.
Imprint
Toronto : CBC Records, p2000.
Performer
Program featured Richard Margison, tenor ; Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano ; Michael Schade, tenor ; Catherine Robbin, mezzo ; Measha Brüggergosman, soprano ; Gino Quilico, baritone ; Tracy Dahl, soprano ; Brett Polegato, baritone ; Russell Braun, baritone ; Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano ; Ben Heppner, tenor ; James Westman, baritone ; Frances Ginzer, soprano ; Robert Pomakov, bass ; Jean Stilwell, mezzo ; members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Mark Skazinetsky, concert master) ; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Noel Edison, conductor) ; Mario Bernardi, conductor ; Richard Bradshaw, conductor.
Event
Recorded live on Friday, December 31, 1999 at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto and the two-and-one-half hour concert broadcast live on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Two network on the concert programme "In Performance".