Gala from Berlin - Love & Desire

Berlioz, Hector, Bizet, Georges, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Rossini, Gioachino, Verdi, Giuseppe

Abbado, Claudio, Alvarez, Marcelo, Berliner Philharmoniker, Freni, Mirella, Keenlyside, Simon, Schäfer, Christine

DVD TDK SG1998

Works:
• Mozart: Arias from "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" - Overture from "Le Nozze di Figaro"; Verdi: Arias from "Rigoletto", "Un Ballo in Maschera" and "La Traviata"
•Tchaikovsky: Polonaise and aria from "Eugene Onegin";
•Bizet: Carillon and Farandole from "L'Arlésienne";
•Rossini: Overture from "La Gazza Ladra";
•Berlioz: Roman Carnival, Op. 9 "interpreters"

Mirella Freni and Christine Schäfer - soprano
lvarez - tenor Simon Keenlyside - baritone
Berliner Philharmoniker , Claudio Abbado
"television director" Hans Hulscher
"recording" 1998 - Philharmonie Berlin

"love & desire" panorama of passions: "Songs of Love & Desire "was the motto of the New Year's Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1998. The exciting program offered some of the most beautiful love arias in the history of opera, selected by Maestro Claudio Abbado. Celebrated singing stars such as Christine Schäfer, the British baritone Simon Keenlyside, the Argentinean tenor Marcelo ¦lvarez and the grand dame of the opera, Mirella Freni, transformed the gala into a festive and moving celebration of voices, the "Libiamo ne'lieti calici" from La Traviata found its grand finale.

DVD x 1

TDK

14.07.2006

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