2015–16 Season Preview

2015–16 Season Preview

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2015–16 Season Preview episodes

  • LUISA MILLER
    Introduction to Verdi's "Luisa Miller" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos
    November 1974
    Sinfonia
    Ti desta, Luisa, regina de’ cori
    "Ah! tutto m’arride": Giorgio Tozzi
    "Del conte di Walter figlio": Luciano Pavarotti
    "Tu puniscimi, o Signore": Katia Ricciarelli
    "Quando le sere al placido": Luciano Pavarotti
    11 min
  • LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
    Introduction to Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Jean-Yves Ossonce
    June 2008
    Prelude
    Introductory Chorus
    "Regnava nel silenzio": Natalie Dessay, Cybele-Teresa Gouverneur
    Sextet: Giuseppe Filianoti, Gabriele Viviani, Natalie Dessay, Oren Gradus, Andrew Bidlack, Cybele-Teresa Gouverneur
    Mad Scene: Natalie Dessay
    Finale: Giuseppe Filianoti
    17 min
  • THE MAGIC FLUTE
    Introduction to Mozart's "The Magic Flute" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Rory Macdonald
    June 2012
    Overture
    Introduction: Alek Shrader
    Quintet: Melody Moore, Lauren McNeese, Renée Tatum, Alek Shrader, Nathan Gunn
    Finale
    17 min
  • DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG
    Introduction to Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Donald Runnicles
    October 2001
    Overture
    Introduction to Act 2
    "Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein": Jay Hunter Morris
    "Wach’ auf!"
    13 min
  • THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
    Introduction to Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Giuseppe Finzi
    November 2013
    Sinfonia
    "Ecco ridente in cielo": Javier Camarena
    Act 1 Finale: Lucas Meachem
    Act 1 Finale: Isabel Leonard, Catherine Cook, Javier Camarena, Lucas Meachem, Alessandro Corbelli, Andrea Silvestrelli
    Act 2 Finale: Isabel Leonard, Catherine Cook, Javier Camarena, Lucas Meachem, Alessandro Corbelli, Andrea Silvestrelli
    11 min
  • THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
    Introduction to "Usher House" by Gordon Getty and Robert Orledge’s completion of Claude Debussy’s "La Chute de la Maison Usher," by General Director David Gockley.
    "Usher House"
    Gordon Getty
    Conductor: Lawrence Foster
    Orquestra Gulbenkian
    Used by permission of PENTATONE Classics, PTC 5186 451
    Prelude: Christian Elsner
    Poe’s Aria: Christian Elsner
    Madeline’s Dance
    "La Chute de la Maison Usher"
    Claude Debussy
    Reconstruction and orchestration by Robert Orledge
    Conductor: Christoph-Mathias Mueller
    Göttinger Symphonie Orchester
    "Dans la plus verte de nos vallées": Linlin Fan
    "Je sais qu’elle est trop frêle": William Dazeley
    "Dans la plus verte de nos vallées": William Dazeley
    14 min
  • CARMEN
    Introduction to Bizet's "Carmen" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
    November 2011
    "Seguidilla": Anita Rachvelishvili
    "Habanera": Anita Rachvelishvili
    10 min
  • DON CARLO
    Introduction to Verdi's "Don Carlo" by General Director David Gockley.
    Conductor: Emmanuel Joel
    October 1998
    Prelude
    Fontainebleau Duet: Sergei Larin, Nina Rautio
    Act 2 Introduction
    Don Carlo/Rodrigo Duet: Sergei Larin, Anthony Michaels-Moore
    Veil Song: Markella Hatziano
    Grand Inquisitor’s Entrance: Norman Shankle
    "O don fatale": Markella Hatziano
    "Tu che le vanità": Nina Rautio
    18 min