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At the Opera

Hosted By Sean Bianco

Host Sean Bianco brings you a full-length opera featuring great voices from the past and present followed by “Opera Potpourri.”

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Saturday, 8 p.m. – 12 a.m.
on Music Station

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

At The Opera, Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia / Jussi Bjorling Carnegie Hall Recital, February 25, 2017

  

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on December 26, 1833 at La Scala, Milan.

Cast:

Don Alfonso – Ezio Flagello

Lucrezia Borgia – Montserat Caballe

Gennaro – Alfredo Kraus

Maffino Orsini – Shirley Verrett

 

RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Jonel Perlea – conductor

RCA - 1966

8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
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8:14 p.m.
Caballé
Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia
RCA; Jonel Perlea, conductor
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10:00 p.m.
10:36 p.m.
Jussi Bjorling
Carnegie Hall Recital 1955
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