PBS Gala of Stars 1980 (Upgraded sound)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Hosted by Beverly Sills and conducted by James Levine
09:40 Non piu andrai (Jose Van Dam)
15:20 Don Quixote Ballet (Natalia Makarova and Alexander Godunov)
27:00 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Mendelssohn) - Finale (Isaac Stern)
35:25 Prologue - Ariadne of Naxos (Tatiana Troyanos)
40:12 Un bel di vedremo (Renata Scotto)
52:02 Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Marilyn Horne)
58:01 My man's gone now (Leontyne Price)
01:04:55 Stars and Stripes ballet (Merril Ashley and Sean Lavery)
01:18:50 Quando le sere al placido (Plácido Domingo)
01:28:15 La ci darem la mano (Samuel Ramey and Diana Soviero)
01:34:00 Sills, Levine and Pavarotti banter
01:35:55 Celeste Aida (Luciano Pavarotti)
01:43:02 Selections from West Side Story (1980 Broadway cast)
(A minute of commercials containing a bit of Holst's Venus was muted due to copyright, the actual concert is unaffected)
These galas are really gems. We took them a little bit for granted back when classical dancing and singing were a given, although they’re barely given a hearing now. Sadly, the gala begins with Alexander Godunov, who had a short and tragic life.
I also had no idea that they included ballet dancers, broadway performers, and instrumentalists, not just opera singers. It's pretty cool to have Isaac Stern pop up here or to have Barbara Cook pop up in another, not to mention Leonard Bernstein randomly play a Chopin mazurka.
Sadly, Godunov drank alcohol to excess and this became a problem as he got older. On May 18, 1995, Godunov's friends became concerned when he had been uncharacteristically quiet with his phone calls. A nurse, who had not heard from him since May 8, went to his home in the Shoreham Towers, West Hollywood, California, where his body was discovered. He had been dead for several days. Godunov's death was determined to be due to complications from hepatitis secondary to chronic alcoholism. He was 45 years old. A great artist.
Paired with the upload of the full 1982 In Concert at the MET with Domingo, Troyanos and Levine, showing this to my birthday girl is just gonna make her beam. As you likely know, many uploaders will say they have the entire recording of X performance but rarely mean it when they say they'll upload it. Truly amazing. Mil, mil gracias. Paz.
Tatiana always brilliant
Thank you So Much for posting this!!!
Pav and Sills!!!!!!!!!!! Omg
Werkelijk prachtig, heb genoten, dank u ❤️❤️❤️
Scotto amd Domingo best for ever!
1991 we see quite the same cast für 100 years Carnegie...... Mrs Sills Mrs Horne Mr Domingo etc and Mr Levine , of course
JL was a lateish replacement for the late LB, and seriously overbooked that week with the first MET Orchestra concerts in Ann Arbor and CH as well as recording sessions with Domingo for the Sony Trovatore and Luisa Miller recordings. A logistical nightmare all 'round. It worked somehow.
@@kenhunt278thanks for feedback , always welcome....I like to know such details
Scotto....❤❤❤❤🥰
More from your old VHS collections, please! xoxo
Not my VHS collection, I got this from around the WWW, I just improved the sound
Whatever faults he had or supposedly had as a person, James Levine ranks alongside Toscanini, Ormandy, Bernstein, Karajan, Stokowski and Bonynge as one of the greatest conductors of all time.
Agrees. He was magical
Wondering if the composer was conducting the last number or was just invited from out of the audience to take a bow…? It would have been an excellent idea if somebody had thought of it.
the star is always pavarotti the voice touched by god, and it truly is.
Soviero ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Price really clobbers Serena's great air.
I remember watching this when it was originally broadcast. I was in college in Plattsburgh NY and was BLOWN AWAY by My Man's Gone Now!
I still have a cassette recording I made of it from the TV
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Madame Priceless, mostbeautiful primal voice we ever heard in concer❤❤❤🎉t@@rugby8-Philadelphia
And it was on full display in this performance!
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