At The Opera, Puccini's La Boheme, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Holiday Potpourri, December 21, 2019
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Tune in at 8pm to hear our annual holiday presentation of Puccini's La Boheme, Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and a special Holiday Potpourri.
La Boheme cast:
Sir Thomas Beecham - conductor
Victoria de los Angeles - Mimi
Jussi Björling - Rodolfo
Robert Merrill - Marcello
Thomas Powell
Lucine Amara - Musetta
Fernando Corena
RCA - 1956
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Original cast recording from NBC Television - 1951
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:09 p.m.
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme (1956)
RCA Victor Opera Orchestra and Chorus; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor de los Angeles / Bjorling / Merrill
10:20 p.m.
Menotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Vienna; Thomas Schippers, conductor
11:10 p.m.
Pavarotti
Adeste fideles (O come all ye faithful)
11:14 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Gruber
Stille Nacht (Silent night)
11:18 p.m.
various
trad.
Joy to the world
National Philharmonic; Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor Joan Sutherland
11:21 p.m.
various
trad.
O Tannenbaum
National Philharmonic; Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor Leontyne Price
11:30 p.m.
Joan Sutherland
Deck the hall
11:31 p.m.
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Philharmonia Orchestra; Carl Davis, conductor Kiri Te Kanawa
11:35 p.m.
Felix Bernard
Felix Bernard
Winter Wonderland
Philharmonia Orchestra; Carl Davis, conductor Kiri Te Kanawa
11:39 p.m.
Kiri te Kanawa
trad.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Philharmonic Orchestra; Carl Davis, conductor Kiri te Kanawa
11:42 p.m.
Enrico Caruso
Adam
Cantique De Noel
n/a; n/a, conductor Enrico Caruso
11:46 p.m.
London Symphony
Waldteufel - The skaters' waltz
11:51 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
