Claudio Abbado conducts a Verdi gala for the 2000 New Year’s Eve Concert
The music of Verdi is very close to Claudio Abaddo’s heart – after all, he led La Scala in Milan from 1968 to 1986, the worldwide centre of Verdi interpretation. In this New Year’s Eve Concert from 2000, audiences were able to discover this side of the conductor, with excerpts from Rigoletto , La Traviata and Falstaff . Abbado was joined by leading Verdi singers, including Andrea Rost, Ramón Vargas and Alan Titus.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Andrea Rost
Ramón Vargas
Alan Titus
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Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera : “Volta la terrea fronte” · “Signori: oggi d’Ulrica” · “Ve’ se di notte” · “Saper vorreste”
Andrea Rost
Soprano
Carmela Remigio
Soprano
Ramón Vargas
Tenor
Massimo Giordano
Tenor
Alan Titus
Baritone
Lucio Gallo
Baritone
Anatoli Kotcherga
Bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Stanislav Bogunia
Chorus Master
Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos : “Que de fleurs et que d’étoiles”
Carmela Remigio
Soprano
Stella Doufexis
Mezzo-Soprano
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Stanislav Bogunia
Chorus Master
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto : “Questa o quella” · “La donna è mobile”
Ramón Vargas
Tenor
Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata : “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” (Brindisi) · “Sempre libera”
Andrea Rost
Soprano
Stella Doufexis
Mezzo-Soprano
Ramón Vargas
Tenor
Massimo Giordano
Tenor
Alan Titus
Baritone
Lucio Gallo
Baritone
Anatoli Kotcherga
Bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Stanislav Bogunia
Chorus Master
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff : “Alice” – “Meg” – “Nannetta”
Carmela Remigio
Soprano
Elizabeth Futral
Soprano
Larissa Diadkova
Mezzo-Soprano
Stella Doufexis
Mezzo-Soprano
Massimo Giordano
Tenor
Enrico Facini
Tenor
Anthony Mee
Tenor
Lucio Gallo
Baritone
Anatoli Kotcherga
Bass
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff : “Quand’ero paggio”
Carmela Remigio
Soprano
Elizabeth Futral
Soprano
Stella Doufexis
Mezzo-Soprano
Larissa Diadkova
Mezzo-Soprano
Anthony Mee
Tenor
Massimo Giordano
Tenor
Enrico Facini
Tenor
Lucio Gallo
Baritone
Alan Titus
Baritone
Anatoli Kotcherga
Bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Stanislav Bogunia
Chorus Master
Giuseppe Verdi
Falstaff : “Alto là!” – “Chi va là?”
Carmela Remigio
Soprano
Elizabeth Futral
Soprano
Stella Doufexis
Mezzo-Soprano
Larissa Diadkova
Mezzo-Soprano
Anthony Mee
Tenor
Massimo Giordano
Tenor
Enrico Facini
Tenor
Lucio Gallo
Baritone
Alan Titus
Baritone
Anatoli Kotcherga
Bass
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Stanislav Bogunia
Chorus Master
Johann Strauss
Un ballo in maschera , Quadrille on themes from Verdi’s opera