Aida ; La Boheme ; Der Rosenkavalier ; Lucia di Lammermoor ; L'elisir d'amore ; Eugene Onegin ; Turandot ; Tosca ; Le nozze di Figaro ; Don Pasquale ; Rigoletto

Item

Record ID

1034

Identifier

90663

Genre

Opera

Work Title

Aida ; La Boheme ; Der Rosenkavalier ; Lucia di Lammermoor ; L'elisir d'amore ; Eugene Onegin ; Turandot ; Tosca ; Le nozze di Figaro ; Don Pasquale ; Rigoletto

Uniform Title

Selections from: Aida ; Boheme ; Rosenkavalier ; Lucia di Lammermoor ; L'elisir d'amore ; Eugene Onegin ; Turandot ; Tosca ; Nozze di Figaro ; Don Pasquale : Rigoletto ;

Program/Series Title

Great performances at the Met: Viewer's choice

Work Alternate Titles

Elixir of love ; The marriage of Figaro

Composer

Verdi ; Puccini ; Strauss (Richard) ; Donizetti ; Tchaikovsky ; Mozart

Production Year

2007

Transmission/Release Date

12/6/07

Transmission/Release Year

2007

Transmitter/Outlet/Streaming Platform

PBS

Conductor/Music Director

Levine, James ; Bonynge, Richard ; Rescigno, Nicola ; Gergiev, Valery ; Sinopoli, Giuseppe

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera

Soloists

Leontyne Price (Aida) ; Luciano Pavarotti (La Boheme) ; Tatiana Troyanos ; Kiri Te Kanawa ; Judith Blegen (Der Rosenkavalier) ; Joan Sutherland (Lucia di Lammermoor) ; Luciano Pavarotti (L'elisir d'amore) ; Renee Fleming ; Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Eugene Onegin) ; Placido Domingo (Turandot) ; Placido Domingo (Tosca) ; Renee Fleming (Le nozze di Figaro) ; Luciano Pavarotti (Rigoletto) ; Jose Carreras ; Teresa Stratas (La Boheme)

Participants

Renee Fleming (host)

TV/Film Director

Browning, Kirk ; Large, Brian ; Halvorson, Gary

Production Company

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.

Producer

Briccetti, Louisa ; Warivonchik, Victoria

Executive Producer

Gelb, Peter

Other Information

A PBS fund drive program. Viewers selected and ranked favorite performances from 30 years of Met telecasts. The top three: The l982 Der Rosenkavalier (third), the Pavarott 1977 La Boheme (second), and Leontyne Price's 1985 farewell Aida (first). Mia Bongiovanni, Elena Park (supervising producers). David Horn, Executive Producer for Great performances. A Metropolitan Opera production in association with Thirteen WNET New York. Sonya Friedman (English subtitles).

Duration

ca. 120'

Presenting Station

WNET/13 for PBS release

Company

Metropolitan Opera

Sourcemat

DLCAT - 163