The Inaugural Season: Extraordinary Met Performances From 1966-67
Jon Vickers (Grimes), Lucine Amara (Ellen Orford), Geraint Evans (Balstrode), Leontyne Price (Cleopatra), Justino Díaz (Antony), Jess Thomas (Octavius Caesar), Ezio Flagello (Enobarbus), Rosalind Elias (Charmian), Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calaf), Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard...
This beautifully produced box…with ten complete broadcast operas, ...is a time capsule, a treasure trove, and adds up to much more than a snapshot of a very special season —
22 CDs
$132.00Contents
Britten: Peter Grimes
- Jon Vickers (Grimes), Lucine Amara (Ellen Orford), Geraint Evans (Balstrode)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Sir Colin Davis
Barber: Antony & Cleopatra
- world premiere
- Leontyne Price (Cleopatra), Justino Díaz (Antony), Jess Thomas (Octavius Caesar), Ezio Flagello (Enobarbus), Rosalind Elias (Charmian)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Thomas Schippers
Puccini: Turandot
- Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calaf)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Zubin Mehta
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
- Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Edgardo), Anselmo Colzani (Enrico), Nicola Ghiuselev (Raimondo)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Richard Bonynge
Strauss, R: Die Frau ohne Schatten
- Leonie Rysanek (Kaiserin), Christa Ludwig (Färberin), Irene Dalis (Amme), James King (Kaiser), Walter Berry (Barak)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Karl Böhm
Verdi: Aida
- Leontyne Price (Aida), Carlo Bergonzi (Radames), Grace Bumbry (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Thomas Schippers
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
- Judith Raskin (Pamina), Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night), George Shirley (Tamino), Theodor Uppman (Papageno), John Macurdy (Sarastro)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Josef Krips
Verdi: Otello
- James McCracken (Otello), Montserrat Caballé (Desdemona), Tito Gobbi (Iago)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Zubin Mehta
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
- Renata Scotto (Butterfly), George Shirley (Pinkerton), Ron Bottcher (Sharpless), Nedda Casei (Suzuki)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Molinari-Pradelli
Verdi: Rigoletto
- Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Nicolai Gedda (Il Duca di Mantova), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Sparafucile), Belén Amparon (Maddalena)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Lamberto Gardelli