We celebrate New Year’s Eve with a Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II – a performance of January 20, 1951 – with Patrice Munsel, Rise Stevens, and Richard Tucker – conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
Die Fledermaus
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Playlist:
1:07 pm
- Die Fledermaus: Act I
- Composer: Johann Strauss II
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Patrice Munsel, soprano ; Marguerite Piazza, soprano ; Richard Tucker, tenor ; Charles Kullman, tenor ; John Brownlee, baritone
- Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
- Record co./Cat #: Met broadcast
- Release Year: 1951
2:13 pm
- Die Fledermaus: Acts II &III
- Composer: Johann Strauss II
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Patrice Munsel, soprano ; Marguerite Piazza, soprano ; Richard Tucker, tenor ; Charles Kullman, tenor ; Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano ; John Brownlee, baritone
- Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
- Record co./Cat #: Met broadcast
- Release Year: 1951
3:55 pm
- Der Zigeunerbaron: "Wer uns getraut?"
- Composer: Johann Strauss II
- Soloists: Jussi Björling, tenor ; Hjördis Schymberg, soprano
- Conductor: Nils Grevillius
- CD/Album: Björling Volume 2
- Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 7842
- Release Year: 1993