Saturday Night at the Opera playlist for 12/20/2014

Program: 
Saturday Night at the Opera
  • Verdi, Giuseppe
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Don Carlo
from
  • Franco Corelli, Leonie Rysanek, Irene Dalis, Nicolae Herlea, Giorgio Tozzi, Hermann Uhde, Kurt Adler (conductor), The Metropolitan Orchestra and Chorus
(
  • Sony Classical
)
  • Purcell, Henry
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Dido and Aeneas
from
  • Jessye Norman, Thomas Allen, Marie McLaughlin, Raymond Leppard (conductor), English Chamber Orchestra
(
  • Philips 416 299-1
)
  • Debussy, Claude
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Le promenoir des deux amants: "Aupres de cette grotte sombre"
from
  • undefined
(
  • EMI 2C 165-16371/4
)

The Metropolitan Opera's "Don Carlo," Kurt Adler conducting, featuring Franco Corelli and Leonie Rysanek, in honor of American mezzo-soprano, Irene Dalis who passed away last Sunday. Jumping back 200 years to Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and to continue in the vein of lovers, Claude Debussy's setting of Tristan Lhermite's poem, "Aupres de cette grotte sombre" from Le promenoir des deux amants.

Department: 
Classical