METROPOLITAN OPERA 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Antony and Cleopatra (opera)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra_(opera)
Metropolitan Opera House September 16
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On This Day - September 16 - Metropolitan Opera House Opened I...
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Franco Corelli "Cielo e mar" - LIVE at the new Met 1966 (Recorded over house wire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaC6nWqEOM8
(Ponchielli: La Gioconda) Metropolitan Opera, September 22, 1966. Recording made over the house wire, with audible prompter. "Cielo e mar" English translation by Mark D. Lew
La gioconda: Renata Tebaldi
Laura Adorno: Biserka Cvejic ́
Alvise Badoero: Cesare Siepi
La cieca: Mignon Dunn
Enzo Grimaldo: Franco Corelli
Barnaba: Cornell MacNeil
maestro direttore: Fausto Cleva
New production La Gioconda {197} Metropolitan Opera House: 09/22/1966.
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photos
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Metropolitan Opera House opens, drawing socialites in 1966
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/metropolitan-opera-house-opens-drawing-socialites-1966-article-1.2361023
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE OPENS, DRAWING SOCIALITES IN 1966
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Bright Lights of the Met Opera Lobby Are Put Out for Repair
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/nyregion/18chandelier.html
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/theaters/metropolitanoperahouse/the-metropolitan-opera-50th-anniversary-gala.php
The Metropolitan Opera invites you to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary in their Lincoln Center home with a magical gala featuring some of the biggest stars in opera, performing pieces from Porgy and Bess, Samson et Dalila and more, including their inaugural production, Samuel Barber's Antony & Cleopatra that had its world premiere at the venue September 16, 1966.
Expect a glittering evening of performance and reminisces from the last fifty years of the internationally renowned company as they recreate the 'crescendo of splendor' from opening night in true Met Opera style!
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price at the White House: Summertime (encore).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwyXrWuSyw
Biserka Cvejic ́
Biserka Cvejic "O don fatale" from Don Carlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONAXJtpoB8o
Mignon Dunn
Manhattan School Faculty-Mignon Dunn's Voice Lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anPqelmB6JM
Justino Díaz
Justino Diaz - Credo in un Dio crudel - Otello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qKvYi3S6pY
Thomas Schippers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schippers
Thomas Schippers "Prelude" Carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afacORlVxPw
Thomas Schippers "Intermezzo Sinfonico" Manon Lescaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3Dn_91ih8
Opera News's 80th Anniversary
http://www.operanews.com/80years/
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Opera News with seminal articles and excerpts from our archives that have never before appeared on our website.
OVER THE COURSE OF 2016, you can visit this page to view seminal articles and excerpts from our archives that have never appeared on our website before. It’s our plan to post eighty of these during the year, from our first four-page “news sheet” in May 1936 to the magazine’s first review of Maria Callas to our first reports on opera in Salzburg (in 1937), Dallas (in 1940) and Santa Fe (in 1957). The magazine’s pages speak of history, as well as opera; the world’s darkening atmosphere flavored the Opera News coverage of opera in Europe in the late 1930s, just as the rapidly shifting cultural landscape of the 1960s charged our stories about the opening of the Met’s second home at Lincoln Center.
It was the magazine’s stated intention in 1936 to be “useful, instructive and factual.” We promise to continue that mission—leavened with generous doses of wit and humor—as we begin our ninth decade.