At The Opera, Opera Potpourri Spring Fund Drive, March 20, 2021
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Tune in at 8pm to hear the All Opera Potpourri Spring Fund Drive show. Hear your favorite opera singers sing the opera world greatest hits and support your local public radio station at the same time. It's a win win!
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:05 p.m.
Wagner
The Ride of the Valkyries
NBC Symphony Orchestra; Arturo Toscanini, conductor
8:10 p.m.
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
Puccini
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro" by Mirella Freni and Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice and Roberto Abbado
8:12 p.m.
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
Verdi
Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" (Brindisi) by Carlo Bergonzi & Dame Joan Sutherland & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Sir John Pritchard
8:15 p.m.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 - Original version, Vienna 1786 - Act 3 - "Che soave zeffiretto" - "Piegato è il foglio..." by Lucia Popp & Barbara Hendricks & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
8:25 p.m.
Robert McFerrin
G. Verdi
Pari siamo from Rigoletto
MET Robert McFerrin
8:29 p.m.
Kiri Te Kanawa
G.F. Handel
Lascia ch'io pianga - Rinaldo
Kiri Te Kanawa
8:33 p.m.
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
Rossini
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1 - "Largo al factotum" by Sherrill Milnes & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Silvio Varviso
8:38 p.m.
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Bizet
Bizet: Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) by Teresa Berganza & The Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
8:43 p.m.
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
Leo Delibes
Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1 - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet) by Dame Joan Sutherland and Jane Berbié and Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Richard Bonynge
9:13 p.m.
Monserrat Caballe
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo, opera: Act 4 Final B Flat!
; Eliahu Inbal, conductor
9:15 p.m.
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
Puccini
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 2 - "Quando m'en vo" by Elizabeth Harwood & Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti & Nicolai Ghiaurov & Gianni Maffeo & Michel Sénéchal & Rolando Panerai & Berliner Philharmonik
9:18 p.m.
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
Puccini
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - "Un bel dì vedremo" by Régine Crespin & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Edward Downes
9:22 p.m.
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
Von Flotow
Flotow: Martha / Act 3 - "M'appari" by Luciano Pavarotti and New Philharmonia Orchestra and Richard Bonynge
9:26 p.m.
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
Puccini
Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" by Montserrat Caballé and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Sir Colin Davis
9:29 p.m.
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Leoncavallo
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba (Act 1) by Mario del Monaco & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
9:45 p.m.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Mozart
Queen Of The Night Aria [From The Magic Flute]
9:55 p.m.
Birgit Nilsson
Richard Wagner
Gotterdammerung: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben! Immolation Scene
Vienna Philharmonic; Sir Georg Solti, conductor Birgit Nilsson
10:07 p.m.
Helen Traubel
Gluck
Alceste: Divinites Du Styx
10:12 p.m.
Lucia Popp/Tom Krause
Mozart
Don Giovanni, La ci darem la mano
10:15 p.m.
Carlo Bergonzi
Verdi
Il Trovatore, Ah si ben mio
10:18 p.m.
Leontyne Price
Verdi
Aida, opera: Ritorna vincitor!
10:26 p.m.
Marilyn Horne
Saint-Saens
Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47: Mon coeur s'ouvre ta voix
10:32 p.m.
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Charles Gounod
Faust: Serenade: Vous qui faites l'endormie
10:51 p.m.
Maria Callas
Verdi
Aida act 2 finale with high E flat
; De Fabrirtiis, conductor
10:59 p.m.
Grace Bumbry
Verdi
Don Carlo, opera: O don fatale
11:04 p.m.
Maria Chiara
Puccini
Turandot, opera: Signore, ascolta!
11:06 p.m.
Mario del Monaco
Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur, opera: La dolcissima effigie
11:08 p.m.
Sutherland/Tourangeau
Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle: Belle nuit, nuit d'amour
11:13 p.m.
de Luca/Borthayer
Bizet
Pearlfishers' Duet: C'est toi... Au fond du temple saint
11:31 p.m.
James King
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Tote Stadt Duet
; Götz Friedrich, conductor
11:44 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Bovio-De Curtis
Tu ca nun chiagne
Mario Lanza
11:46 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Post
Only A Rose from The Vagabond King
11:52 p.m.
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Bixio
Parlami d'amore Mariu
New Symphony of London Dino Olivieri
11:55 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
