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Live from the Metropolitan Opera was an American television program that presented performances of complete operas from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network.
Original Release
03/15/1977 on PBS
US Release
03/15/1977
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus / People / Villagers / Villager / Townspeople / Peasants / Party Guest |
| James Levine | Self - Conductor / Self - Conducted by / Self / Self -Conductor / Self - Conduted by |
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra / Themselves - Orchestre / Themselves - Orcehstre / Themselves - Orcehstra |
| Charles Anthony | Roderigo / Young Servant / Waiter / Ulrich Eisslinger / Trojan Soldiers / Trin / Tinca / Gherardo / Sergeant / Innkeeper / Il Tinca / Heinrich der Schreiber / First Commissioner / Federico / Ein Offizer / Don Riccardo / Désiré / Borsa / A Philistine Messenger / A Judge / A herald / A Captain |
| Placido Domingo | Otello / Turiddu / Canio / The Duke of Mantua / Self / Samson / Rodolfo / Rodolfo Muller (Stiffelio) / Radamès / Paolo Malatesta / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Mario Cavaradossi / Luigi / Loris Ipanov / Gabriele Adorno / Don José / Don Carlo / Dick Johnson / Des Grieux / Alfredo Germont / Aeneas |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers / Ballet / Villagers |
| James Courtney | Sid / Servant / Pistola / Pietro / Notary / Marquis de la Force / Marco / Ein Lakai / Doctor Grenvil / Borov / Apprentice / Antonio / Angelotti / A Lackey / Un alcalde / Trojan Soldiers / Trojan Soldier / Priam's Ghost |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Canio / Self / Rodolfo / Riccardo, Count of Warwick and Governor of Boston / Oronte / Nemorino / Mario Cavaradossi / Manrico / Italian Singer / Idomeneo / Ernani / Duke of Mantua / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Alfredo / Edgardo / The Duke of Mantua |
| Anthony Laciura | Don Curzio / Bardolfo / Andrès / Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz / Spoletta / Ser Toldo Berardengo / Remendado / Prior / Nick / Mastro Trabucco / Fool / Farinal's Major-Domo / Dr. Blind / Brighella |
| Sherrill Milnes | Tonio / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Simon Boccanegra (bariton) / Self / Rodorigo / Miller / Jago / Jack Rance / Don Carlos / Count Di Luna / Amonasro |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos | Thursday, 03 April 2003 |
| 2 | Nabucco | Saturday, 15 June 2002 |
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Directors
Brian Large, Kirk Browning, Gary Halvorson
Writers
Francesco Maria Piave, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arrigo Boito, William Shakespeare, Lorenzo da Ponte, Richard Wagner, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Victor Hugo, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Salvatore Cammarano, Alban Berg, Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy, Prosper Mérimée, Friedrich Schiller, Temistocle Solera, Victorien Sardou, Richard Genée, Giovanni Ruffini, Abbé Prévost, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jacopo Ferretti, Sophocles, Antonio Somma, Walter Scott, Carl Haffner, Norman Kelley, Stephan von Breuning, Arturo Colautti, Ferdinand Lemaire, Francis Cornu, Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Carlo Zangarini, Guelfo Civinini, Georg Friedrich Treitschke, Joseph Sonnleithner, Jean Nicolas Bouilly, Abbate Varesco, Eugène Scribe, Didier Gold, Gaetano Rossi, Tito Ricordi, Duque de Rivas, Publius Vergilius Maro, Hector Berlioz, François Joseph Méry, Adelheid Wette, David Belasco, Giulio Ricordi, Domenico Oliva, Marco Praga, Henri Murger, Angelo Anelli, Karel Sabina, Georges Bernanos, Giovanni Verga, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci, Alexandre Dumas fils, Felice Romani, Bertolt Brecht, Frank Wedekind, Camille du Locle, Cesare Sterbini, Jules Barbier, Giuseppe Adami
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus / People / Villagers / Villager / Townspeople / Peasants / Party Guest |
| James Levine | Self - Conductor / Self - Conducted by / Self / Self -Conductor / Self - Conduted by |
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra / Themselves - Orchestre / Themselves - Orcehstre / Themselves - Orcehstra |
| Charles Anthony | Roderigo / Young Servant / Waiter / Ulrich Eisslinger / Trojan Soldiers / Trin / Tinca / Gherardo / Sergeant / Innkeeper / Il Tinca / Heinrich der Schreiber / First Commissioner / Federico / Ein Offizer / Don Riccardo / Désiré / Borsa / A Philistine Messenger / A Judge / A herald / A Captain |
| Placido Domingo | Otello / Turiddu / Canio / The Duke of Mantua / Self / Samson / Rodolfo / Rodolfo Muller (Stiffelio) / Radamès / Paolo Malatesta / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Mario Cavaradossi / Luigi / Loris Ipanov / Gabriele Adorno / Don José / Don Carlo / Dick Johnson / Des Grieux / Alfredo Germont / Aeneas |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers / Ballet / Villagers |
| James Courtney | Sid / Servant / Pistola / Pietro / Notary / Marquis de la Force / Marco / Ein Lakai / Doctor Grenvil / Borov / Apprentice / Antonio / Angelotti / A Lackey / Un alcalde / Trojan Soldiers / Trojan Soldier / Priam's Ghost |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Canio / Self / Rodolfo / Riccardo, Count of Warwick and Governor of Boston / Oronte / Nemorino / Mario Cavaradossi / Manrico / Italian Singer / Idomeneo / Ernani / Duke of Mantua / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Alfredo / Edgardo / The Duke of Mantua |
| Anthony Laciura | Don Curzio / Bardolfo / Andrès / Cochenille / Pitichinaccio / Frantz / Spoletta / Ser Toldo Berardengo / Remendado / Prior / Nick / Mastro Trabucco / Fool / Farinal's Major-Domo / Dr. Blind / Brighella |
| Sherrill Milnes | Tonio / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party / Simon Boccanegra (bariton) / Self / Rodorigo / Miller / Jago / Jack Rance / Don Carlos / Count Di Luna / Amonasro |
| Paul Plishka | Narbal / Lodovico / King Phillip / Jorg / Jacopo Fiesco (bass) / Falstaff / Dr. Bartolo / Colline / Alaska Wolf Joe |
| Renata Scotto | Musetta / Mimì / Manon Lescaut / Luisa / Giorgietta / Suor Angelica / Lauretta / Francesca / Elizabeth of Valois / Desdemona |
| Tatiana Troyanos | Venus / Santuzza / Princess Eboli / Prince Orlofsky / Octavian / Giulietta / Dido / Der Komponist |
| Cornell MacNeil | Trinity Moses / Scarpia / Rigoletto / Mechele / Il barone Scarpia / Iago / Giorgio Germont / Gianciotto |
| Isola Jones | Maddalena / Smaragdi / Preziosilla / Maddelena / Lola / Girls / A musician |
| James Morris | Self / Lodovico / Lindorf / Coppélius / Dapertutto / Dr. Miracle / Jago / Hans Sachs / Don Giovanni / Colline / Wurm |
| Jean Kraft | Mother Jeanne / Mamma Lucia / Háta / Gertrud / Federica / Emilia / Cassandra's Ghost / Abbess |
| Julien Robbins | Tom / Raimondo / Marquis d'Obigny / Cound Lamoral / Ashby / A sergeant / A friar |
| Betsy Norden | Tebaldo / The Dew Fairy / Sister Constance / Genovieffa / Nella / Fifteen-years-old Girl / Countess Ceprano |
| Richard Vernon | Reinmar von Zweter / Police Inspector / Jago / Il Marchese di Calatrava / Hans Flotz / Carcelero / Bello |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Michael Bronson | Executive Producer |
| Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
| Joseph Volpe | Executive Producer |
| Louisa Briccetti | Producer |
| Clemente D'Alessio | Producer |
| Samuel Paul | Producer |
| Susan Erben | Producer |
| Karen Adler | Producer |
| Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
| Christopher Sarson | Producer |
| Suzanne Gooch | Producer |
| Norman Berns | Producer |
| Franco Zeffirelli | Producer |
| Daniel Anker | Producer |
| Anu Krishnan | Producer |
| Michael Bronson | Producer |
| John Goberman | Producer |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1991 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming | Won |
| 1991 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming | Nominated |
| 1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts | Nominated |
| 1985 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts | Nominated |
| 1984 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming | Won |
| 1984 | Emmy | Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming | Nominated |
| 1982 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts | Won |
| 1978 | Emmy | Outstanding Classical Program in the Performing Arts | Nominated |
