MET Gala farewell to Rudolf Bing (22.04.1972, New York) {TV highlights}

Gala Performance Honoring Sir Rudolf Bing
P.S. - special thanks to my friend Matilde for providing this treasure

Metropolitan Opera House
22nd April 1972, New York

Director: Fabrizio Melano
TV Director: Kirk Browning

The whole event included:

00:00 - Milton Cross introduction
00:41 - Rise Stevens in tha house
00:59 - La Stevens started her narattive
02:24 - G.Verdi overture from "Luisa Miller"
07:53 - Rise Stevens on the mic
08:15 - G.Rossini "Dunque io son" from "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (Roberta Peters & Sherrill Milnes)
13:25 - G.Puccini "Donde lieta usci" from "La Boheme" (Teresa Stratas)
16:56 - J.Massenet Gavotte from "Manon" (Anna Moffo)
20:15 - G.Verdi "Tacea la notte placida... Di tale amor che dirsi" from "Il Trovatore" (Martina Arroyo)
25:58 - G.Donizetti "Verranno a te" from "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti)
35:45 - Rise Stevens shows her Gemini side
36:28 - J.Strauss II Acceleration Waltz (Metropolitan Opera Ballet)
39:04 - G.Verdi "Tutte le feste" from "Rigoletto" (Gail Robinson & Cornell MacNeil)
48:47 - G.Rossini "Un segreto d'importanza" from "La Cenerentola" (Fernando Corena & Ezui Flagello)
55:21 - G.Puccini "Tu, tu amore tu" from "Manon Lescaut" (Montserrat Caballe & Placido Domingo)
01:04:00 - J.Massenet "Pleurez mes yeux" from "Le Cid" (Grace Bumbry)
01:10:43 - O.Straus "Je t'aime" from "Les Trois Valses" (Regine Crespin)
01:16:01 - U.Giordano "Nemico della patria" from "Andrea Chenier" (Mario Sereni)
01:20:24 - Rise Stevens have some thoughts to share
01:20:47 - G.Verdi "Invano Alvaro" from "La Forza del Destino" (Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill)
01:29:16 - W.A.Mozart "Dove Sono" from "Le Nozze di Figaro" (Leontyne Price)
01:35:55 - select something that you have no option to choose
01:36:11 - J.Strauss II "Chacun à Bing's gout" from "Die Fledermaus" (Regina Resink)
01:41:50 - G.Verdi "Di quella pira" from "Il Trovatore" (Janes NcCracken)
01:43:55 - R.Wagner "In fernem Land" from "Lohengrin" (Sandor Konya)
01:49:09 - S.Barber "Must the winter come so soon" from "Vanessa" (Rosalind Elias)
01:52:01 - E.W.Korngold "Glück, das mir verblieb"/Marietta Lied from "Die Tote Stadt" (Pilar Lorengar)
01:58:01 - R.Wagner conclusion from 1st act of "Die Walkure (Leonie Rysanek & Jon Vickers)
02:14:05 - G.Verdi "Gia nella notte densa" from "Otello" (Teresa Zylis-Gara & Franco Corelli)
02:23:29 - La Birgit Nilsson entered the stage
02:23:41 - La Rise Stevens interrupting heavenly songbird
02:24:23 - R.Strauss final scene from "Salome" (La Birgit Nilsson)
02:38:08 - the wall of applause
02:38:44 - La Nilsson is pleased by reaction of an audience
02:39:03 - Bing and his final bow to the company
02:41:07 - Rise Stevens' final thoughts
02:41:33 - closing credits

Conductors.....................James Levine/Richard Bonynge/Kurt Adler/Max Rudolf/Karl Bohm