Royal Opera Gala


Royal Opera Gala
Sutherland; Veasey; Minton; Collier; Gobbi; Pears; Ward
Label
Decca
Catalogue No.
4800952
Barcode
00028948009527
Format
2-CD
About

The stunning ‘Covent Garden Anniversary Album’ released complete for the first time on CD, coupled with Solti’s firecracker accounts of Overtures and Preludes. Soloists include a range of 1960s Covent Garden stalwarts, – Carlyle, Sutherland, Veasey, Minton, Shuard, Collier, Gobbi, Evans, Pears and Ward; and conductors – Downes, Bonynge, Walton and Goodall. Nearly 160 minutes of inspirational operatic performances mined from the rich Decca archives.

TRACK LISTING / ARTISTS

BIZET: Carmen – Prelude: Act I
DONIZETTI:  La Fille du Régiment – Par le rang … Salut à la France
BERLIOZ: Les Troyens – Je vais mourir
MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov –  Da zdrastvstvuet Tsar Boris … Skorbit dusha!
STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier – Da … Herr Kavalier!
STRAUSS: Elektra – Allein! Weh, ganz allein
BRITTEN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!
BRITTEN: Billy Budd – O beauty, handsomeness, goodness
TIPPETT: King Priam – O rich soiled land
WALTON: Troilus & Cressida – How can I sleep?
MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro – Dove sono
PUCCINI:  La Bohème – Addio, dolce svegliare
VERDI: Otello – Fuoco di gioia…Inaffia l’ugola
VERDI: Falstaff – Eh! Taverniere…Mondo ladro
BEETHOVEN: Fidelio – Mir ist so wunderbar
WAGNER: Das Rheingold -Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge
VERDI: La Traviata – Prelude: Act I
ROSSINI: Overture – L’italiana in Algeri
OFFENBACH: Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Entr’acte (Barcarolle)
VERDI: La Traviata – Prelude Act III
ROSSINI: Semiramide – Overture
GOUNOD: Faust – Ballet Music
PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda – Dance of the Hours

Jean Bonhomme,  John Dobson, John Lanigan, Richard Lewis, Kenneth McDonald, Peter Pears, tenors
Delme Bryn-Jones, Geraint Evans, Tito Gobbi, Michael Langdon, baritones
Joan Carlyle, Marie Collier, Anne Howells, Gwyneth Jones, Maria Pelligrini,  Elizabeth Robson, Amy Shuard, Joan Sutherland, Elizabeth Vaughan, sopranos
David Kelly, Forbes Robinson, Joseph Rouleau, David Ward, bass
Yvonne Minton, Josephine Veasey, mezzo-sopranos
John Williams, guitar

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Chorus
 of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Richard Bonynge, Edward Downes, Rafael Kubelik, Georg Solti, William Walton, conductors