At The Opera, Nicolai Gedda Tribute / La Forza Del Destino, February 11, 2017
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Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda passed away on Janurary 8th at the age of 91 so in his honor host Sean Bianco will be featuring a short tribute at the top of the show with more of Gedda’s artistry to be heard again later in the program after the feature opera.
La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed in the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, on November 10, 1862.
Cast:
Leonora - Leontyne Price
Don Alvaro - Richard Tucker
Don Carlo - Robert Merrill
RCA - 1964
Thomas Schippers - conductor
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:03 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Tribut to Nicolai Gedda
8:31 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza Del Destino (The Force of Destiny)
Rome Opera; Thomas Schippers, conductor
11:40 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Wagner
Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Act 3. In fernem Land
11:45 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Goldmark
Die Königin von Saba, opera, Op. 27: Act 2. Magische Töne
11:49 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Johann Strauss II
Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), operetta (RV 511): Act 1. Als flotter Geist...Ja, das alles auf Ehr'
Bavarian State Opera; Franz Allers, conductor
11:52 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Lehar
Paganini, operetta in 3 acts: Act 2. Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt
