Leontyne Price at the Met (2-CD)

Composers: Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Samuel Barber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Leontyne Price, Franco Corelli, Teresa Stratas, Charles Anthony, Cesare Siepi, Robert Merrill, Belén Amparán, Gene Boucher, Peter Sliker, Clifford Harvuot, Rosalind Elias, Carlo Bergonzi, Stuart Burrows, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Conductors: Kurt Adler, Fausto Cleva, Zubin Mehta, Thomas Schippers, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, James Levine, Michelangelo Veltri
Number of Discs: 2
Label: The Metropolitan Opera
CD Release Date: September 18, 2020

Celebrate one of opera`s greatest artists with Leontyne Price at the Met.

This new release features excerpts from the beloved American soprano`s Met performances of Aida, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Antony and Cleopatra, and much more, spanning 1961-1985.

Editorial Reviews

THE NEW YORKER
Goings on About Town
October 7, 2020
 
CLASSICAL MUSIC
“Leontyne Price at the Met”
In her two and a half decades at the Metropolitan Opera, the soprano Leontyne Price brought lyrical splendor to the heroines of Giuseppe Verdi, with singing that radiated densely packed colors. The Met celebrates the ninety-three-year-old’s career with a two-disk compilation of live excerpts, from a fresh-voiced “Il Trovatore,” in 1961, to her farewell in “Aida,” in 1985. Price’s timbre is swathed in an impenetrable glow that transcends the limitations of recording technology. There’s a voluptuous Donna Anna in “Don Giovanni,” a romantic “Tosca,” a powerfully acrobatic “Ernani,” and an especially ravishing “Trovatore,” from 1969. The album closes, of necessity, with “O patria mia,” from her final “Aida,” a rendition that received raucous applause thirty-five years ago and consecrated one of the Met’s great legacies.

Track Listings

Disc 1 (68:00)
4/7/62 Puccini: Tosca, Act I: Mario! Mario! Mario!
4/7/62 Puccini: Tosca, Act I: Qual`occhio al mondo
4/7/62 Puccini: Tosca, Act II: Vissi d`arte
4/7/62 Puccini: Tosca, Act III: O dolci mani mansuete e pure
2/4/61 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act I: Che più t`arresti?
2/4/61 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act I: Tacea la notte placida
2/4/61 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act I: Di tale amor
3/29/69 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act IV: Siam guinti
3/29/69 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act IV: D`amor sull`ali rosee
3/29/69 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act IV: Miserere d`un`alma
12/1/62 Verdi: Ernani, Act I: Surta è la notte—Ernani!  Ernani involami
12/1/62 Verdi: Ernani, Act I: Tutto sprezzo che d`Ernani
4/10/65 Verdi: Ernani, Act IV: Ferma, crudele, estinguere perchè
2/26/66 Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Act II: Ecco l`orrido—Ma dall`arido stelo divulsa
2/26/66 Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Act III: A tal colpa è nulla il pianto
2/26/66 Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Act III: Morrò, ma prima in grazia

Disc 2: (79:33)       
9/16/66 Barber: Antony and Cleopatra, Act III: He words me, girls, he words me
9/16/66 Barber: Antony and Cleopatra, Act III: Give me my robe
2/25/67 Verdi: Aida, Act I: Ritorna vincitor!
2/25/67 Verdi: Aida, Act III: Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida
2/25/67 Verdi: Aida, Act III: Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti
4/13/74 Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act I: Don Ottavio, son morta!
4/13/74 Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act I: Or sai chi l`onore
4/13/74 Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act II: Crudele?  Ah no, mio bene!
4/13/74 Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act II: Non mi dir, bell`idol mio
3/12/77 Verdi: La Forza del Destino, Act I: Ma pellegrina ed orfana
2/12/72 Verdi: La Forza del Destino, Act II: Son giunta!...Madre, Madres, pietosa Vergine
3/12/77 Verdi: La Forza del Destino, Act II: La Vergine degli Angeli
3/12/77 Verdi: La Forza del Destino, Act IV: Pace, pace mio Dio!
2/20/82 Verdi: Messa da Requiem, VII. Libera me: Libera me, Domine
2/20/82 Verdi: Messa da Requiem, VII. Libera me: Dies irae
2/20/82 Verdi: Messa da Requiem, VII. Libera me: Requiem aeternam
2/20/82 Verdi: Messa da Requiem, VII. Libera me: Libera me, Domine
1/3/85 Verdi: Aida, Act III:  Qui Radamès verrà!... O patria mia

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