James Levine conducts Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra in this live Metropolitan Opera broadcast, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role. A recital by another great Simon Boccanegra, Tito Gobbi, follows the broadcast.
Simon Boccanegra
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Playlist:
12:58 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983
1:06 pm
- Simon Boccanegra: Prologue
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; Barbara Frittoli, soprano ; Ramón Vargas, tenor ; Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass
- Conductor: James Levine
- Record co./Cat #: Met Broadcast
- Release Year: 2011
1:39 pm
- Simon Boccanegra: Act I
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; Barbara Frittoli, soprano ; Ramón Vargas, tenor ; Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass
- Conductor: James Levine
- Record co./Cat #: Met Broadcast
- Release Year: 2011
3:07 pm
- Simon Boccanegra: Act II
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; Barbara Frittoli, soprano ; Ramón Vargas, tenor ; Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass
- Conductor: James Levine
- Record co./Cat #: Met Broadcast
- Release Year: 2011
3:40 pm
- Simon Boccanegra: Act III
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
- Soloists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone ; Barbara Frittoli, soprano ; Ramón Vargas, tenor ; Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass
- Conductor: James Levine
- Record co./Cat #: Met
- Release Year: 2011
4:16 pm
- Il barbiere di Siviglia: "Largo al factotum"
- Composer: Gioachino Rossini
- Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone
- Conductor: Alceo Galliera
- CD/Album: The Perfect Opera
- Record co./Cat #: Angel 67438
- Release Year: 1958
4:22 pm
- Falstaff: Honor Monologue
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone
- Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
- CD/Album: Verdi - Falstaff
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 49668
- Release Year: 1957
4:28 pm
- Il tabarro (excerpt)
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Ensemble: Rome Opera Orchestra
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone ; Margaret Mas, soprano
- Conductor: Vincenzo Bellezza
- CD/Album: Puccini: Il trittico
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 64165
- Release Year: 1956
4:32 pm
- Tosca: Act I (excerpt)
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Ensemble: Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone
- Conductor: Victor de Sabata
- CD/Album: Puccini: Tosca
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 47174
- Release Year: 1953
4:36 pm
- Tosca: Act II (excerpt)
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone
- Conductor: Victor de Sabata
- CD/Album: Puccini: Tosca
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 47174
- Release Year: 1953
4:42 pm
- Pagliacci: Prologue
- Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Ensemble: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
- Soloists: Tito Gobbi, baritone
- Conductor: Lovro von MataÄić
- CD/Album: Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 63967
- Release Year: 1961
4:51 pm
- Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé: "Soupir"
- Composer: Claude Debussy
- Soloists: Margaret Price, soprano ; James Lockhart, piano
- CD/Album: Französische und spanische Lieder
- Record co./Cat #: Orfeo 038831
- Release Year: 1983
4:55 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983