Saturday Night at the Opera playlist for 01/04/2014

Program: 
Saturday Night at the Opera
  • Verdi, Giuseppe
-
Cortigiani vil razza
from
  • Rigoletto
(
  • RCA Victor
)
  • Reimann, Aribert
from
  • Lear
(
  • Deutsche Grammophon
)
  • Shostakovich, Dmitri
-
Incidental Music to King Lear, Op. 137
from
  • Shostakovich-Film Music
(
  • RCA Victor
)
  • Berlioz, Hector
-
King Lear, op. 4
from
  • Berlioz: Four Overtures
(
  • Urania
)
  • Verdi, Giuseppe
-
Non piangere mia compagna
from
  • Don Carlo
(
  • EMI Classics
)
  • Verdi, Giuseppe
-
Me pellegrina e orfana
from
  • La Forza del Destino
(
  • Decca
)

A night revolving around operatic and musical settings of William Shakespeare's King Lear.

  1. Cortigiani-Robert Merrill (baritone); Georg Solti (conductor); RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra.
  2. Lear-Helga Dernesch (soprano); Colette Lorand (soprano); Julia Varady (soprano); David Knutson (tenor); Werner Götz (tenor); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone); Gerd Albrecht (conductor); Bavarian State Opera Orchestra & Chorus.
  3. Incidental Music to King Lear-José Serebrier (conductor); Belgian Radio Symphony Orchestra (RTBF).
  4. Overture to Lear-Jean Martinon (conductor); L'Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux.
  5. Non piangere mia compagna-Montserrat Caballe (soprano); Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor); ROH Orchestra.
  6. Me pellegrina e orfana-Renata Tebaldi (soprano); Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor); Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia.
Department: 
Classical