"The Night The Old Met Died" - Gala Farewell at the Metropolitan Opera House (16/04/1966, New York)

"The Night The Old Met Died" - Gala Farewell at the Metropolitan Opera House (16/04/1966, New York)

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@KajiVocals
@KajiVocals - 17.11.2024 17:37

Votipka was a legend at the Met. Thank you for this.

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@KajiVocals
@KajiVocals - 17.11.2024 17:48

Kirsten - wonderful

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@MorenoCassals70
@MorenoCassals70 - 17.11.2024 18:00

Through this recording you can easily notice that Tebaldi and Nilsson are the two best voices of the night

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@Arishenka_A
@Arishenka_A - 17.11.2024 19:41

Corelli 🤗

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@verdiguy
@verdiguy - 18.11.2024 00:54

Thanks for posting. This was up on You Tube once or twice before and then taken down again almost immediately so I'll enjoy it while I can! A couple of notes. This was in a sense the farewell performances for both Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce as well. Neither actually sang at the new Met. Peerce sang a Faust on tour to end his Met career. Albanese was a regular attendee at the new Met, often being warmly applauded when she took her seat and occasionally being openly critical of new productions that she thought weren't faithful to the composer's intentions, most famously a Butterfly where Pinkerton starts partially disrobing Butterfly at the end of Act One. (She booed) I think that Rudolf Bing decided to unilaterally "retire" many of the singers who sang their last here in this performance. Despite his ruthlessness in dispensing with singers such as Melchior, Traubel, Callas, Stella and Di Stefano, he was strangely loyal to a number of other singers, even well past their best before dates. With the new house sue to open in 1967, I think practicality finally won out and so many old and familiar faces bid their fans farewell. Just as many misses as hits here but still an important moment in the history of the Met. My bass bias may be showing through but Cesare Siepi is in magnificent voice in this.

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