At The Opera, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, February 29, 2020
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Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on December 26, 1833 at La Scala, Milan.
Cast:
Lucrezia Borgia - Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro - Alfredo Karaus
Maffio Orsini - Shirley Verrett
Joel Perlea - conductor
RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus
RCA - 1966
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:16 p.m.
Caballé
Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia
RCA; Jonel Perlea, conductor
10:59 p.m.
Renata Tebaldi
Puccini
Gianni Schicchi, opera: O mio babbino caro
London
11:01 p.m.
Giuseppi Verdi
NABUCCO: Chorus of the Hebrew slaves
Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Lamberto Gardelli, conductor Vienna State Opera Chorus [Also:"Wiener Staatsopernchor"]
11:06 p.m.
Marilyn Horne
G.F. Handel
Rodelinda - Dove sei (Art thou troubled)
Vienna Cantata; Henry Lewis, conductor
11:13 p.m.
Giuseppe di Stefano
Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore, opera: Una furtiva lagrima
11:18 p.m.
Joan Sutherland
Leo Delibes
Lakme opera: Bell Song
London Philharmonic; Richard Boynage, conductor Joan Sutherland
11:25 p.m.
Puccini
Manon Lescaut, Intermezzo
11:29 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
11:32 p.m.
Aldo Protti with Mario del Monaco
Verdi
Otello Aldo Protti
