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==Background==
The Metropolitan Opera's first performance was given on 22 October 1883 at its former home on the junction of [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] and 39th Street in New York City: a staging of [[Charles Gounod]]'s ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' starring [[Italo Campanini]] in the title role and [[Christine Nilsson]] as Marguerite. With the one hundredth anniversary of that occasion chancing to fall on a Saturday, the Met chose to commemorate its centenary with a two-part gala comprising a matinée at 2 p.m. and an evening session at 8 p.m.<ref name=d/>

More than seventy singers were invited to participate, chosen either for their eminence or their long association with the house. Performing on a series of sets created by the most distinguished designers in the Met's history, they sang arias, duets and ensembles from an eclectic range of operas as well as a few items drawn from other genres. There were also contributions from the Met's chorus and resident ballet company as well as some purely orchestral selections.<ref name=d/>

The entire event was broadcast live on both radio and television in the United States and in some other countries. The US television broadcast was supported by a grant from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, Inc., with supplementary help from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, Inc., and the [[National Endowment For the Arts]]. The production of Deutsche Grammophon's DVD of the gala was supported by the [[Dana Foundation|Charles A. Dana Foundation]].<ref name=d/><ref name=piodvd/>

==Production==


==Performances==
==Performances==
===Matinee session<ref name=Met1/><ref name=d>''The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala'', Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4548, 2009</ref>===
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! Performer(s) !! Piece !! Opera !! Composer !! Conductor !! Home media
|+ Performances<ref name=cd/><ref name=dvd/>
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| Anthony A. Bliss, General Manager|| Spoken greeting|| N/A||N/A||N/A||{{cross}}
! Performer(s) !! Piece !! Opera !! Composer !! CD? !! VHS/Laserdisc? !! DVD?
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| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra|| Overture|| ''[[Rienzi|Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen]]'' ("Rienzi, the last of the tribunes", WWV 49, Dresden, 1842)|| '''[[Richard Wagner]]''' (1813–1883) , with a libretto by Wagner after ''Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes'' (1835) by [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]] (1803–1873)|| {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra|| Overture|| ''[[The Bartered Bride]]''||'''[[Bedřich Smetana]]'''||[[James Levine]]||{{tick}}
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| [[Éva Marton]]|| "In questa reggia"|| ''[[Turandot]]''||'''[[Giacomo Puccini]]'''||Levine||{{tick}}
| [[Deborah Voigt]] (Elisabeth)|| "Dich, teure Halle"|| ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg]]'' ("Tannhäuser and the Wartburg song contest", WWV 70, Dresden, 1845)|| Richard Wagner, with a libretto by Wagner after the German legends of [[Tannhäuser]] and the [[Wartburg]] [[Sängerkrieg]] (minstrels' contest) || {{tick}}|| {{tick}}|| {{tick}}
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| Vladimir Chernov (Figaro)|| Largo al factotum|| Il Barbiere di Siviglia|| Rossini || {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{cross}}
| [[Jessye Norman]] and Jess Thomas|| Act I Duet|| ''[[Die Walküre]]''||'''[[Richard Wagner]]'''||Levine||{{cross}}
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| [[Kiri Te Kanawa]]|| "[[Dove sono|E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti]]"|| ''[[The Marriage of Figaro|Le nozze di Figaro]]''||'''[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'''||Levine||{{tick}}
| Frederica von Stade (Cherubino)|| Voi che sapete|| Le Nozze di Figaro|| Mozart || {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{cross}}
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| [[Isola Jones]], [[Shirley Love]], [[Louise Wohlafka]], [[Charles Anthony (tenor)|Charles Anthony]], James Courtney|| Act II Quintet|| ''[[Carmen (opera)|Carmen]]''||'''[[Georges Bizet]]'''||Levine||{{cross}}
| [[Thomas Hampson]] (Rodrigo) and [[Roberto Scandiuzzi]] (Filippo II)|| "Restate!... O Signor, di Fiandra arrivo"|| ''[[Don Carlo]]'' (Paris, 1867)|| '''[[Giuseppe Verdi]]''' (1813–1901), with an Italian libretto by Achille de Lauzieres and Angelo Zanardini, translated from the French of [[Joseph Méry]] (1797–1866) and [[Camille du Locle]] (1832–1903), after the play ''[[Don Carlos (play)|Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien]]'' ("Don Carlos, [[Infante]] of Spain", Hamburg, 1787) by [[Friedrich Schiller]] (1759–1805) || {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[James McCracken]]|| "Dio! Mi potevi scagliar",|| ''[[Otello]]'' ||'''[[Giuseppe Verdi]]'''||Levine||{{tick}}
| [[Renée Fleming]] (Louise)|| "Depuis le jour où je me suis donnée"|| ''[[Louise (opera)|Louise]]'' (Paris, 1900)|| '''[[Gustave Charpentier]]''' (1860–1956), , with a libretto by Charpentier and [[Saint-Pol-Roux]] (1861–1940)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Evelyn Lear]] and [[Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone)|Thomas Stewart]]|| "Bess you is my woman now"|| ''[[Porgy and Bess]]||'''[[George Gershwin]]'''||Levine||{{cross}}
| Richard Leech|| È la solita storia|| L'Arlesiana|| Ch? || {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{cross}}
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| [[Régine Crespin]]|| Habañera|| ''Carmen'' ||Bizet||Levine||{{cross}}
| [[Hong Hei-kyung|Hei-Kyung Hong]] (Rosina), [[Wendy White (mezzo-soprano)|Wendy White]] (Cherubino), [[Christine Goerke]] (Marie Antoinette) and [[Håkan Hagegård]] (Pierre Beaumarchais)|| "Cherubino...", "Now we go back in time"|| ''[[The Ghosts of Versailles|The ghosts of Versailles]]'' (New York, 1991)|| '''[[John Corigliano]]''' (born 1938), , with a libretto by [[William M. Hoffman]] (1939–2017) after ''[[The Guilty Mother|L'autre Tartuffe, ou La mère coupable]]'' ("The other [[Tartuffe]], or The guilty mother", Paris, 1792) by [[Pierre Beaumarchais]] || {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{tick}}
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| [[Ruggero Raimondi]] || "La calunnia è un venticello"|| ''[[The Barber of Seville|Il barbiere di Siviglia]]''||'''[[Gioachino Rossini]]'''|| [[Richard Bonynge]]||{{tick}}
| [[Ghena Dimitrova]] (Amelia), Franco Farina (Riccardo) and [[Juan Pons]] (Renato)|| "Ahimè! S'appressa alcun!"|| ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'' (Rome, 1859)|| '''Giuseppe Verdi''', with a libretto by [[Antonio Somma]] (1809–1864) after that written by [[Eugène Scribe]] (1791–1861) for ''[[Gustave III (opera)|Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué]]'' by [[Daniel Auber]] (1782–1871)|| {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{tick}}
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| [[Dano Raffanti]], Brian Schexnayder, [[Roberta Peters]], Julien Robbins, [[Loretta Di Franco]] and [[Robert Nagy (tenor)|Robert Nagy]]|| Sextet|| ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]''||'''[[Gaetano Donizetti]]'''||Bonynge||{{tick}}
| [[Gabriela Beňačková]] (Rusalka)|| Song to the Moon: "Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém"|| ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' ("The water spirit", Prague, 1901)|| '''[[Antonín Dvořák]]''' (1841–1904), ), with a libretto by [[Jaroslav Kvapil]] (1868–1950) after ''[[Undine (novella)|Undine]]'' (1811) by [[Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué]] (1777–1843), ''[[The Little Mermaid|Den lille havfreu]]'' ("The little mermaid", 1837) by [[Hans Christian Andersen]] (1805–1875) and the north-west European folk tradition of [[Melusine]]|| {{cross}}|| {{cross}}|| {{tick}}
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| [[James Morris (bass-baritone)|James Morris]]|| Medley|| ''[[The Man of La Mancha]]''||'''[[Mitch Leigh]]'''||Bonynge||{{cross}}
| [[Angela Gheorghiu]] (Suzel) and [[Roberto Alagna]] (Fritz)|| "Suzel, buon di" (Cherry Duet)|| ''[[L'amico Fritz]]'' ("Friend Fritz", Rome, 1891)|| '''[[Pietro Mascagni]]''' (1863–1945), with a libretto by [[Nicola Daspuro]] (1853–1941, writing as P. Suardon) and [[Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti]] (1863–1934) after ''L'ami Fritz'' by [[Émile Erckmann]] (1822–1899) and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian|| {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Joan Sutherland]]|| "Bel raggio lusinghier",|| ''[[Semiramide]]''||Rossini||Bonynge||{{tick}}
| [[Ileana Cotrubas]] (Giuditta)|| "Ich weiß es selber nicht... Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß"|| ''[[Giuditta]]'' (Vienna, 1934)|| '''[[Franz Lehár]]''' (1870–1948), with a libretto by {{ill|Paul Knepler|de}} (1879–1967) and [[Fritz Löhner-Beda]] (1883–1942)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| Metropolitan Opera Chorus|| Prelude: "Son io! Son io la vita" (Hymn to the Sun)|| ''[[Iris (opera)|Iris]]'' ||'''[[Pietro Mascagni]]'''|| David Stivender ||{{tick}}
| [[Dolora Zajick]] (Eboli)|| "Ah, più non vedrò... O don fatale"|| Don Carlo || Verdi || {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Frederica von Stade]] and [[Judith Blegen]] || "Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren" || ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' || '''[[Richard Strauss]]''' || [[Jeffrey Tate]] ||{{tick}}
| [[James Morris (bass-baritone)|James Morris]] (Wotan)|| "Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind!” (Wotan’s Farewell)|| ''[[Die Walküre]]'' ("The Valkyrie", WWV 86B, Munich, 1870)|| Wagner || {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Richard Cassilly]] || "When the sky grows brighter" || ''[[Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]]'' ||'''[[Kurt Weill]]'''||Tate||{{cross}}
| [[Deborah Voigt]] (Elvira), [[Plácido Domingo]] (Ernani) and [[Roberto Scandiuzzi]] (Silva)|| "Cessaro i suoni"|| ''[[Ernani]]'' (Venice, 1844)|| '''Giuseppe Verdi''', with a libretto by [[Francesco Maria Piave]] (1810–1876) after ''[[Hernani (drama)|Hernani]]'' (1830) by [[Victor Hugo]] (1802–1885)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Betsy Norden]] and [[Christian Boesch]] || Papagena-Papageno Duet || [[Die Zauberflöte ]] ||Mozart||Tate||{{cross}}
| [[Roberto Alagna]] (Nadir) and [[Bryn Terfel]] (Zurga)|| "[[Au fond du temple saint]]"|| ''[[Les pêcheurs de perles]]'' ("The pearl fishers", Paris, 1867)|| '''[[Georges Bizet]]''' (1838–1875), , with a libretto by [[Eugène Cormon]] (1810–1903) and [[Michel Carré]] (1821–1872)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Ruth Ann Swenson]] (Juliette)|| "Je veux vivre dans ce rêve"|| ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'' (Paris, 1867)|| '''[[Charles Gounod]]''' (1818–1893), , with a libretto by [[Jules Barbier]] (1825–1901) and Michel Carré after ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (''circa'' 1593) by [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
| [[Catherine Malfitano]] and [[Alfredo Kraus]] || "Va! Je t'ai pardonné... Nuit d'hyménée" || ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'' || '''[[Charles Gounod]]''' ||Tate||{{tick}}
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| [[Nicolai Gedda]] || "Una furtive lagrima" || ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'' ||Donizetti||Levine||{{tick}}
| Alfredo Kraus (Werther)|| "Pourquoi me réveiller"|| ''[[Werther]]'' (Geneva, 1892)|| '''[[Jules Massenet]]''' (1842–1912), , with a libretto by [[Édouard Blau]] (1836–1906), [[Paul Milliet]] (1848–1924) and [[Georges Hartmann]] (1843–1900, writing as Henri Grémont) after ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther|Die Leiden des jungen Werthers]]'' ("The sorrows of young Werther", 1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|| {{tick}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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| Jessye Norman|| D'amour l'ardente flamme|| La Damnation de Faust|| Berlioz || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
| [[Bianca Berini]] and [[Louis Quilico]] || Reverenza || ''[[Falstaff (opera)]]'' ||Verdi|| Levine ||{{cross}}
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| [[Anna Tomowa-Sintow]] || "Surta è la note... Ernani! Ernani, involami" || ''[[Ernani]]'' ||Verdi|| Levine ||{{tick}}
| [[Dawn Upshaw]] (Susanna)|| "Giunse alfin il momento... Deh! Vieni, non tardar"|| ''[[The Marriage of Figaro|Le nozze di Figaro]]'' ("The marriage of Figaro", K. 492, Vienna, 1786)|| '''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''', with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after ''[[The Marriage of Figaro (play)|La folle journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro]]'' ("The mad day, or The marriage of Figaro", 1784) by [[Pierre Beaumarchais]] (1732–1799)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Elisabeth Söderström]], [[Kathleen Battle]] and Frederica von Stade || "Hab mir's gelobt" || ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' ||Richard Strauss|| Levine ||{{tick}}
| Jerry Hadley|| Dein ist mein ganzes Herz|| The Land of Smiles|| Lehar || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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| [[Plácido Domingo]] and [[Mirella Freni]] || "Già nella notte densa" || ''Otello'' ||Verdi|| Levine ||{{tick}}
| [[Karita Mattila]] (Rosalinde) and [[Håkan Hagegård]] (Eisenstein)|| "Dieser Anstand, so manierlich"|| ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' ("The Bat", Vienna, 1874)|| '''[[Johann Strauss II]]''' (1825–1899) , with a libretto by [[Karl Haffner]] (1804–1876) and [[Richard Genée]] (1823–1895) after ''Le réveillon'' ("The supper party", Paris, 1872) by [[Henri Meilhac]] (1830–1897) and [[Ludovic Halévy]] (1834–1908), after ''Das Gefängnis'' ("The prison", Berlin, 1851) by [[Julius Roderich Benedix]] (1811–1873)|| Example || {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
|}

===Evening session<ref name=Met2/><ref name=d>''The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala'', Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4548, 2009</ref>===
{| class="wikitable"
! Performer(s) !! Piece !! Opera !! Composer !! Conductor !! Home media
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| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra|| Leonore Overture No. 3|| ''[[Fidelio]]''||'''[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'''||[[Leonard Bernstein]]||{{tick}}
| Sherrill Milnes|| Nemico della patria|| [[Andrea Chénier]] (Milan, 1896)|| '''[[Umberto Giordano]]''' (1867–1948) , with a libretto by [[Luigi Illica]] (1857–1919) based on the life of the poet [[André Chénier]] (1762–1794)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| [[José Carreras]] and [[Montserrat Caballé]]|| "Vicino a te s'acqueta l'irrequieta anima"|| ''[[Andrea Chénier]]''||'''[[Umberto Giordano]]'''||Levine||{{tick}}
| [[Waltraud Meier]] (Isolde)|| "Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen" (Isolde’s Narrative and Curse)|| ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' (WWV 90, Munich, 1865)|| '''Richard Wagner''', with a libretto by Wagner after ''Tristan'' by [[Gottfried von Strassburg]] (d. ''circa'' 1210)|| {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| Paul Plishka|| Prince Gremin's Aria|| Eugene Onegin||’’’[[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]’’’||Levine||{{cross}}
| Mark Oswald (Malatesta) and [[Paul Plishka]] (Don Pasquale)|| "Don Pasquale?... Cheti, cheti, immantinente"|| ''[[Don Pasquale]]'' (Paris, 1843)|| '''[[Gaetano Donizetti]]''' (1797–1848), with a libretto by Donizetti and [[Giovanni Ruffini]] (1807–1881) after that written by [[Angelo Anelli]] (1761–1820) for ''[[Ser Marcantonio]]'' (Milan, 1810) by [[Stefano Pavesi]] (1779–1850)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Giuseppe Giacomini|| Ch'ella mi creda|| La Fanciulla del West||Puccini||Levine||{{cross}}
| [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]] (Rodolfo)|| "Oh! Fede negar potessi agl'occhi miei!... Quando le sere al placido"|| ''[[Luisa Miller]]'' (Naples, 1849)|| '''Giuseppe Verdi''', with a libretto by [[Salvadore Cammarano]] (1801–1852) after ''[[Intrigue and Love|Kabale und Liebe]]'' ("Intrigue and love", Frankfurt am Main, 1784) by Friedrich Schiller|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Myra Merritt and John Cheek|| Là ci darem la mano|| Don Giovanni:||Mozart|| [[John Pritchard (conductor)|John Pritchard]]||{{cross}}
| [[Florence Quivar]] (Giulietta), [[Rosalind Elias]] (Niklausse), [[Alfredo Kraus]] (Hoffmann), [[Charles Anthony (tenor)|Charles Anthony]] (Pitichinaccio), James Courtney (Schlémil), [[Paul Plishka]] (Dapertutto) and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus|| "Hélas, mon cœur s'égare encore" (Sextet) || ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann|Les contes d'Hoffmann]]'' ("The tales of Hoffmann", Paris, 1881)|| '''Jacques Offenbach''', with a libretto by [[Jules Barbier]], after ''Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann'' ("The fantastic tales of Hofmann") by [[Jules Barbier]] and [[Michel Carré]], after ''[[The Sandman (short story)|Der Sandmann]]'' ("The [[Sandman]]", 1816), ''Rath Krespel'' ("Councillor Krespel", 1818) and ''Das verlorene Spiegelbild'' ("The lost reflection", from ''Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht'', ["The adventures of New Year's Eve", 1814]) by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] (1776–1822)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Sharon Sweet and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus || Madre, pietosa Vergine|| La Forza del Destino|| Verdi || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
| Gösta Winbergh and Vernon Hartman|| O Mimì tu più non torni|| La Bohème||Puccini|| Pritchard ||{{cross}}
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| [[Ileana Cotrubas]]|| "L'année en vain chasse l'année"|| ''[[L'enfant prodigue]]''|| '''[[Claude Debussy]]''' || Pritchard ||{{tick}}
| Gwyneth Jones and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus || In questa reggia|| Turandot|| Puccini || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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| Metropolitan Opera Chorus || Va Pensiero || Nabucco || Verdi || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
| Mariella Devia and Jean Kraft|| Viens Mallika|| Lakmé||’’’[[Leo Delibes]]’’’|| Pritchard ||{{cross}}
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| Samuel Ramey|| Del futuro nel buio discerno|| Nabucco || Verdi || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
| Barbara Daniels and Italo Tajo|| Signorina in tanta fretta|| Don Pasquale|| Donizetti || Pritchard ||{{cross}}
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| Carol Neblett and Simon Estes || Wie aus der Ferne || Der Fliegende Holländer ||Wagner||Levine||{{cross}}
| [[June Anderson]] (Giselda), [[Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)|Carlo Bergonzi]] (Oronte), [[Ferruccio Furlanetto]] (Pagano) and [[Raymond Gniewek]] (violin solo)|| "Qui posa il fianco... Qual voluttà trascorrere"|| ''[[I Lombardi alla prima crociata]]'' ("The Lombards in the first crusade", Milan, 1843)|| '''Giuseppe Verdi''', with a libretto by [[Temistocle Solera]] (1815–1878) after ''I Lombardi alla prima crociata'' (1826) by [[Tommaso Grossi]] (1791–1853)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Andrea Velis and Cornell MacNeil || Ebbene Donnina innamorata; Nemico della patria || Andrea Chénier ||Giordano|| Levine ||{{cross}}
| [[Catherine Malfitano]] (Tatyana) and [[Dwayne Croft]] (Eugene Onegin)|| "O! Kak mnye tyazhelo"|| ''[[Eugene Onegin (opera)|Eugene Onegin]]'' (Op. 24, Moscow, 1879)|| '''[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]''' (1840–1893), with a libretto by Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after [[Eugene Onegin]] (published serially, 1825–1832) by [[Alexander Pushkin]] (1799–1837)|| {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| Martina Arroyo and Mignon Dunn || Fu la sorte || Aida: ||Verdi|| Levine ||{{cross}}
| [[Carol Vaness]] (Fiordiligi) and [[Susanne Mentzer]] (Dorabella)|| "Sorella, cosa dici?... Prenderò quel brunettino"|| ''[[Così fan tutte|Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti]]'' ("Thus do all women, or The school for lovers", K. 588, Vienna, 1790)|| '''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''', with a libretto by [[Lorenzo Da Ponte|Lorenzo da Ponte]]|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Grace Bumbry]] (Dalila)|| "[[Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix]]"|| ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson et Dalila]]'' (Op. 47, Weimar, 1877)|| '''[[Camille Saint-Saëns]]''' (1835–1921), with a libretto by [[Ferdinand Lemaire]] (1832–1879) after the story of [[Delilah|Samson and Delilah]] in Chapter 16 of the [[Book of Judges]] in the [[Old Testament]]|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
| Linda Gelinas (dancer), Ricardo Costa (dancer) and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, || Bacchanale (ballet)|| ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson et Dalila]]'' || '''[[Camille Saint-Saëns]]''' || Levine ||{{tick}}
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| Ermanno Mauro and Pablo Elvira || Act I Duet || Don Carlo ||Verdi|| [[Thomas Fulton]] ||{{cross}}
| [[Aprile Millo]] (Amelia)|| "Morrò, ma prima in grazia"|| ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'' (Rome, 1859)|| Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by [[Antonio Somma]] (1809–1864) after that written by [[Eugène Scribe]] (1791–1861) for ''[[Gustave III (opera)|Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué]]'' by [[Daniel Auber]] (1782–1871) || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Maria Ewing|| My man's gone now|| Porgy and Bess || Gershwin || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
| Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill|| Sweethearts || Maytime: ||?||Fulton||{{cross}}
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| Johanna Meier, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, John Alexander, John Macurdy || Quintet || Vanessa||’’’[[Samuel Barber]]’’’|| Fulton ||{{cross}}
| [[Jane Eaglen]] (Brünnhilde)|| "Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort" (Immolation Scene)|| ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' ("Twilight of the gods", WWV 86D, Bayreuth, 1876)|| Richard Wagner || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| Jerome Hines || Vecchia zimarra || La Bohème ||Puccini|| Fulton ||{{cross}}
| [[Frederica von Stade]] (La Périchole)|| "Ah! Quel dîner je viens de faire"|| ''[[La Périchole]]'' ("The Peruvienne", Paris, 1868)|| '''[[Jacques Offenbach]]''' (1819–1880), with a libretto by [[Henri Meilhac]] and [[Ludovic Halévy]] after ''[[Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement|Le carrosse de Saint-Sacrement]]'' ("The Saint-Sacrement coach") by [[Prosper Mérimée]] (1803–1871)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| Lucine Amara and Bianca Berini || L'amo come il fulgor del creato! || La Gioconda ||’’’[[Amilcare Ponchielli]]’’’|| Fulton ||{{cross}}
| [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] (Donna Elvira)|| "In quali eccessi, o numi... Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata"|| ''[[Don Giovanni|Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni]]'' ("The rake punished, or Don Giovanni", K. 527, Prague, 1787)|| '''[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]''' (1756–1791) with a libretto by [[Lorenzo Da Ponte|Lorenzo da Ponte]] (1749–1838) after ''[[The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest|El burlador de Seville y convivado de piedra]]'' ("The trickster of Seville and the stone guest", ?1616) by [[Tirso de Molina]] (1579–1648)|| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Renato Bruson]] and [[Grace Bumbry]] || "Donna, chi sei?" || ''[[Nabucco]]'' ||Verdi|| Fulton ||{{tick}}
| [[Renée Fleming]] (Feldmarschallin), [[Anne Sofie von Otter]] (Octavian) and [[Heidi Grant Murphy]] (Sophie von Faninal)|| "Hab mir's gelobt"|| ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' ("The knight of the rose", Op. 59, Dresden, 1911)|| '''[[Richard Strauss]]''' (1864–1949), with a libretto by [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]] (1874–1929) after ''Les amours du chevalier de Faubles'' by [[Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai]] (1760–1797) and ''[[Monsieur de Pourceaugnac]]'' (1669) by [[Molière]] (1622–1673)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Nicolai Ghiaurov]], [[Katia Ricciarelli]] and [[William Lewis (tenor)|William Lewis]] || "Alerte! Ou vous êtes perdus!" || ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' ||Gounod||Levine||{{tick}}
| [[Plácido Domingo]] ([[Faust]]) and [[Samuel Ramey]] ([[Mephistopheles|Méphistophélès]])|| "Mais ce Dieu, que peut-il pour moi?"|| ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' (Paris, 1859)|| '''Charles Gounod''', with a libretto by [[Jules Barbier]] and [[Michel Carré]] from Carré's play ''Faust et Marguerite'' after ''[[Faust, Part One|Faust: Eine Tragödie]]'' ("Faust, a tragedy", 1808) by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] (1749–1832)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Giuliano Ciannella]] and [[Leona Mitchell]] || "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia" || ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' ||Puccini|| Levine ||{{tick}}
| [[Renée Fleming]] (Donna Anna), [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] (Donne Elvira), [[Hei-Kyung Hong]] (Zerlina), [[Jerry Hadley]] (Don Ottavio), [[Bryn Terfel]] (Leporello) and Julien Robbins (Masetto)|| "Di molte faci il lume... Sola, sola in buio loco" (Sextet)|| '[[Don Giovanni|Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni]]''|| '''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''', with a libretto by [[Lorenzo Da Ponte|Lorenzo da Ponte]] (1749–1838) after ''[[The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest|El burlador de Seville y convivado de piedra]]'' ("The trickster of Seville and the stone guest", ?1616) by [[Tirso de Molina]] (1579–1648)|| {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| [[Birgit Nilsson]]|| Spoken tribute || N/A || N/A || {{tick}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
| Timothy Jenkins || Allmächt'ger Vater || Rienzi ||Wagner|| Levine ||{{cross}}
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| [[Edda Moser]], Diane Kesling, [[David Rendall]], [[Gail Dubinbaum]], [[Ara Berberian]], John Darrenkamp, [[Sesto Bruscantini]], and members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus || "Pria di dividerci de voi, signore" || ''[[L'italiana in Algeri]]'' ||Rossini|| Levine ||{{tick}}
| Metropolitan Opera chorus with James King, Bernd Weikl, John Macurdy (solo recitatives cut from video) || "Wach auf, es nahet gen den Tag!",|| ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]'' ("The mastersingers of Nuremberg", WWV 96, Munich, 1868)|| Richard Wagner || {{cross}} || {{tick}} || {{tick}}
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| Neil Shicoff, Michael Best, and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus || Va pour Kleinzach || Les Contes d'Hoffmann ||’’’[[Jacques Offenbach]]’’’|| Levine ||{{cross}}
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| [[Marilyn Horne]] || "[[Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix]]" || ''Samson et Dalila'' || Saint-Saëns || Levine ||{{tick}}
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| [[Birgit Nilsson]] || "Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen" (Narrative and Curse)|| ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]''||Wagner|| Levine ||{{tick}}
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| Birgit Nilsson|| "Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var" ("When I was seventeen")|| N/A||Traditional|| Levine ||{{tick}}
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| [[Luciano Pavarotti]] and [[Leontyne Price]] || "Teco io sto" – "Gran dio!" || ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'' ||Verdi|| Levine ||{{tick}}
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| Full Company|| "[[Happy Birthday to You|Happy birthday to you]]" || N/A|| Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill (attributed)||N/A||{{tick}}
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==Production==

The gala began at 6PM and ended shortly before 2AM.
<ref name="Met">{{cite web |url=https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0381033 |title=James Levine Gala |author=<!--Not stated--> |website= Metropolitan Opera Archives|publisher=Metropolitan Opera |access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref> Levine’s choice of repertory was dominated by Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, which Tim Page in ''The Washington Post'' felt reflected the choice of operas doing his time in the house.<ref name=wp>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/04/29/at-the-met-a-career-high-note/e3809d9d-1ad2-4691-8770-612d1c6ce84b/|title=Page, Tim: "At the Met, a career high note", 29 April 1996|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The range of singers included veterans such as 71-year-old [[Carlo Bergonzi]] through to newcomers like 32-year-old [[Roberto Alagna]].<ref name=ap>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/bad5d8da61a562fa70c507d484412763|title=Silverman, Mike: "Met celebrates 25 years of James Levine with all-star gala", 28 April 1996|website=Associated Press}}</ref> [[Renée Fleming]] was heard three times, the only singer with a solo number to be heard more than twice over the evening.<ref name=ap/>

Neil Crory reviewing the gala on Laserdisc in the Fall 1997 issue of ''Opera Canada'', stated that the programme booklet's cancellation list alone deserved a mention in the ''Guinness Book of Records''. Singers who had to cancel their appearance included [[Ben Heppner]] and [[José Carreras]] due to scheduling clashes, and several due to health issues, including [[Cecilia Bartoli]], [[Luciano Pavarotti]], [[Montserrat Caballé]], [[Marilyn Horne]], [[Teresa Stratas]], and [[Nicolai Ghiaurov]].<ref name=ap/><ref name=wp/><ref name=oc>{{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-30582529|title=Crory, Neil: "James Levine 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala", ''Opera Canada'', Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1997}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref> [[Hildegard Behrens]] also cancelled due to illness however [[James Jorden]], writing in ''[[Parterre Box]]'', reported rumours that Behrens had cancelled due to jealousy that [[Jane Eaglen]] had "usurped" her repertoire by being given the lengthy Immolation Scene from ''[[Götterdämmerung]]''.<ref name=pb>{{cite magazine |last=Jorden |first=James |date=1997 |title=Issue 20: Post-gala depression |url=https://parterre.com/zine_scans/pbox_20.pdf |magazine=Parterre Box |location=New York City |access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref> [[Kathleen Battle]], one of the Met's biggest stars of recent years, did not attend as she had been fired in 1994.<ref name=wp/>

James Levine did not avail himself of the opportunity to make any speeches. Instead, [[Birgit Nilsson]] gave the closing speech, which [[Martin Bernheimer]] in ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' felt was the "most exhilarating tribute" of the night<ref name=lat>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-29-ca-64050-story.html|title=Bernheimer, Martin: "Levine's silver jubilee: a marathon at the Met", 29 April 1996|website=The Los Angeles Times|date=29 April 1996 }}</ref>, ending with some unaccompanied Valkyrie war-cries from ''[[Die Walküre]]''.<ref name=gr>[[J. B. Steane|Steane, J. B.]]: ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'', December 1996, p. 154</ref> Jorden criticised Levine's decision to take his curtain call in front of a specially-designed, autographed [[Front_curtain|drop curtain]], advising that Levine's pride would lead to a fall - one of the few direct references in reviews of the gala to the sexual misconduct allegations that would end Levine's career two directions later.<ref name=pb/>

The gala was the last appearance on the Met stage for Bergonzi, [[Ileana Cotrubas]], [[Gwyneth Jones]], [[Grace Bumbry]], and [[James King (tenor)|James King]].<ref name=Met/>

==Critical Reception==

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Background

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The Metropolitan Opera's first performance was given on 22 October 1883 at its former home on the junction of Broadway and 39th Street in New York City: a staging of Charles Gounod's Faust starring Italo Campanini in the title role and Christine Nilsson as Marguerite. With the one hundredth anniversary of that occasion chancing to fall on a Saturday, the Met chose to commemorate its centenary with a two-part gala comprising a matinée at 2 p.m. and an evening session at 8 p.m.[1]

More than seventy singers were invited to participate, chosen either for their eminence or their long association with the house. Performing on a series of sets created by the most distinguished designers in the Met's history, they sang arias, duets and ensembles from an eclectic range of operas as well as a few items drawn from other genres. There were also contributions from the Met's chorus and resident ballet company as well as some purely orchestral selections.[1]

The entire event was broadcast live on both radio and television in the United States and in some other countries. The US television broadcast was supported by a grant from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, Inc., with supplementary help from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, Inc., and the National Endowment For the Arts. The production of Deutsche Grammophon's DVD of the gala was supported by the Charles A. Dana Foundation.[1][2]

Production

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Performances

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Matinee session[3][1]

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Performer(s) Piece Opera Composer Conductor Home media
Anthony A. Bliss, General Manager Spoken greeting N/A N/A N/A ☒N
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Overture The Bartered Bride Bedřich Smetana James Levine checkY
Éva Marton "In questa reggia" Turandot Giacomo Puccini Levine checkY
Jessye Norman and Jess Thomas Act I Duet Die Walküre Richard Wagner Levine ☒N
Kiri Te Kanawa "E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti" Le nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Levine checkY
Isola Jones, Shirley Love, Louise Wohlafka, Charles Anthony, James Courtney Act II Quintet Carmen Georges Bizet Levine ☒N
James McCracken "Dio! Mi potevi scagliar", Otello Giuseppe Verdi Levine checkY
Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart "Bess you is my woman now" Porgy and Bess George Gershwin Levine ☒N
Régine Crespin Habañera Carmen Bizet Levine ☒N
Ruggero Raimondi "La calunnia è un venticello" Il barbiere di Siviglia Gioachino Rossini Richard Bonynge checkY
Dano Raffanti, Brian Schexnayder, Roberta Peters, Julien Robbins, Loretta Di Franco and Robert Nagy Sextet Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Bonynge checkY
James Morris Medley The Man of La Mancha Mitch Leigh Bonynge ☒N
Joan Sutherland "Bel raggio lusinghier", Semiramide Rossini Bonynge checkY
Metropolitan Opera Chorus Prelude: "Son io! Son io la vita" (Hymn to the Sun) Iris Pietro Mascagni David Stivender checkY
Frederica von Stade and Judith Blegen "Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren" Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Jeffrey Tate checkY
Richard Cassilly "When the sky grows brighter" Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Kurt Weill Tate ☒N
Betsy Norden and Christian Boesch Papagena-Papageno Duet Die Zauberflöte Mozart Tate ☒N
Catherine Malfitano and Alfredo Kraus "Va! Je t'ai pardonné... Nuit d'hyménée" Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod Tate checkY
Nicolai Gedda "Una furtive lagrima" L'elisir d'amore Donizetti Levine checkY
Bianca Berini and Louis Quilico Reverenza Falstaff (opera) Verdi Levine ☒N
Anna Tomowa-Sintow "Surta è la note... Ernani! Ernani, involami" Ernani Verdi Levine checkY
Elisabeth Söderström, Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade "Hab mir's gelobt" Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Levine checkY
Plácido Domingo and Mirella Freni "Già nella notte densa" Otello Verdi Levine checkY

Evening session[4][1]

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Performer(s) Piece Opera Composer Conductor Home media
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonore Overture No. 3 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Leonard Bernstein checkY
José Carreras and Montserrat Caballé "Vicino a te s'acqueta l'irrequieta anima" Andrea Chénier Umberto Giordano Levine checkY
Paul Plishka Prince Gremin's Aria Eugene Onegin ’’’[[[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]’’’ Levine ☒N
Giuseppe Giacomini Ch'ella mi creda La Fanciulla del West Puccini Levine ☒N
Myra Merritt and John Cheek Là ci darem la mano Don Giovanni: Mozart John Pritchard ☒N
Gösta Winbergh and Vernon Hartman O Mimì tu più non torni La Bohème Puccini Pritchard ☒N
Ileana Cotrubas "L'année en vain chasse l'année" L'enfant prodigue Claude Debussy Pritchard checkY
Mariella Devia and Jean Kraft Viens Mallika Lakmé ’’’Leo Delibes’’’ Pritchard ☒N
Barbara Daniels and Italo Tajo Signorina in tanta fretta Don Pasquale Donizetti Pritchard ☒N
Carol Neblett and Simon Estes Wie aus der Ferne Der Fliegende Holländer Wagner Levine ☒N
Andrea Velis and Cornell MacNeil Ebbene Donnina innamorata; Nemico della patria Andrea Chénier Giordano Levine ☒N
Martina Arroyo and Mignon Dunn Fu la sorte Aida: Verdi Levine ☒N
Linda Gelinas (dancer), Ricardo Costa (dancer) and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Bacchanale (ballet) Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saëns Levine checkY
Ermanno Mauro and Pablo Elvira Act I Duet Don Carlo Verdi Thomas Fulton ☒N
Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill Sweethearts Maytime: ? Fulton ☒N
Johanna Meier, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, John Alexander, John Macurdy Quintet Vanessa ’’’Samuel Barber’’’ Fulton ☒N
Jerome Hines Vecchia zimarra La Bohème Puccini Fulton ☒N
Lucine Amara and Bianca Berini L'amo come il fulgor del creato! La Gioconda ’’’Amilcare Ponchielli’’’ Fulton ☒N
Renato Bruson and Grace Bumbry "Donna, chi sei?" Nabucco Verdi Fulton checkY
Nicolai Ghiaurov, Katia Ricciarelli and William Lewis "Alerte! Ou vous êtes perdus!" Faust Gounod Levine checkY
Giuliano Ciannella and Leona Mitchell "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia" Madama Butterfly Puccini Levine checkY
Timothy Jenkins Allmächt'ger Vater Rienzi Wagner Levine ☒N
Edda Moser, Diane Kesling, David Rendall, Gail Dubinbaum, Ara Berberian, John Darrenkamp, Sesto Bruscantini, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus "Pria di dividerci de voi, signore" L'italiana in Algeri Rossini Levine checkY
Neil Shicoff, Michael Best, and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus Va pour Kleinzach Les Contes d'Hoffmann ’’’Jacques Offenbach’’’ Levine ☒N
Marilyn Horne "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns Levine checkY
Birgit Nilsson "Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen" (Narrative and Curse) Tristan und Isolde Wagner Levine checkY
Birgit Nilsson "Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var" ("When I was seventeen") N/A Traditional Levine checkY
Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price "Teco io sto" – "Gran dio!" Un ballo in maschera Verdi Levine checkY
Full Company "Happy birthday to you" N/A Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill (attributed) N/A checkY
  1. ^ a b c d e The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala, Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4548, 2009
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