Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

Debussy: L'annee en vain...Cependent les soirs (from L'enfant Prodigue) Ileana Cotrubas

Donizetti: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

                Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Nicolai Gedda

Giordano, U: Vicino a te (from Andrea Chénier) Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballé

Gounod: Va! je t'ai pardonné (from Roméo et Juliette) Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus

              Alerte, alerte! (from Faust) Katia Ricciarelli, William Lewis, Nicolai Ghiaurov

Mascagni: Son io! Son io la Vita! (from Iris)

Mozart: E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Kiri Te Kanawa

Puccini: In questa reggia (from Turandot) Eva Marton

              Viene la sera (from Madama Butterfly) Giuliano Ciannella, Leona Mitchell

Rossini: La calunnia è un venticello (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Ruggero Raimondi

             Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide) Joan Sutherland

             Pria di dividerci da voi, signore (from L'italiana in Algeri)

Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa

                    Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) Marilyn Horne

Smetana: The Bartered Bride Overture

Strauss, R: Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (from Der Rosenkavalier)

                  Marie Theres'! ... Hab mir's gelobt (from Der Rosenkavalier)

trad.: Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var Birgit Nilsson

Verdi: Dio, mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali (from Otello) James McCracken

          Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani) Anna Tomowa-Sintow

          Giá nella notte densa (from Otello) Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni

          Donna chi sei? (from Nabucco) Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry

          Teco io sto (from Un ballo in maschera) Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price

Wagner: Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen (from Tristan und Isolde) Birgit Nilsson

Here are the greatest moments from the “ultimate in galas” (Opera), a “roof-rattling vocal display and the kind of cheering and free-flowing, heartfelt emotion on both sides of the footlights that opera evinces more than any other art form” - New York Times
The gala celebration immediately catches the attention with spectacular performances by stars such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Mirella Freni, Marilyn Horne, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus and many others
“The world's most famous opera singers [in] a dazzling sequence of performances” - New York Times
“It's always a privilege to sing at the Met, but this is something very special. I don't think there's ever been anything this grand in the history of opera” - Luciano Pavarotti
This product features an awesome roster of international star conducters: from James Levine, Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Fulton to Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge
2 DVDs LIVE from the Met from October 22, 1983

''I don't think there's ever been anything this grand in the history of opera'' Luciano Pavarotti