Summary: Met Opera's Dec. 1, 1962, broadcast of Verdi's Ernani airs March 2, 2024, as the 2023-2024 Saturday Matinee Broadcast season's Listeners' Choice.
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| Three years nine and one-half months after his conductorship of Met Opera's Saturday, Dec. 1, 1962, performance of Verdi's Ernani, Thomas Schippers conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966, as the inaugural opera for the Metropolitan Opera's new Metropolitan Opera House in Upper West Side Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: WCPE TheClassicalStation, via Facebook March 9, 2019 |
The Metropolitan Opera's Dec. 1, 1962, broadcast of Verdi's Ernani airs March 2, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time as the 2023-2024 Saturday Matinee Broadcast season's Listeners' Choice and as the second of five archival opera broadcasts revived for the 2023-2024 season's Saturday radio matinees.
Nineteenth-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) set Ernani, his 16th-century Spain-set dramma lirico in quattro atti (lyrical drama in four acts), to an Italian libretto by Italian opera librettist Francesco Maria Piave (May 18, 1810-March 5, 1876). The 19th-century Italian opera librettist sourced his libretto from Hernani (full title: Hernani, ou l'Honneur Castillan), a drama versed in rhyming alexandrines by 19th-century French Romantic writer and politician Victor-Marie Hugo (Feb. 26, 1802-May 22, 1885). Verdi's Ernani premiered Saturday, March 9, 1844, at Teatro La Fenice, located in sestiere di San Marco (sestiere, "district," of San Marco, central historic Venice, northeastern Italy.
Ernani's Metropolitan Opera premiere took place Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1903, at the Metropolitan Opera House, located at 1411 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Garment District. The Verdian opera received four performances in its premiere season. The second (Monday, Feb. 2) and fourth, closing (Saturday, Feb. 21) performances also were held at the company's opera house. The third performance was offered Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the opera company's 1902-1903 Tour.
In the 1962-1963 season, Met Opera's 32nd through 38th performances of Ernani took place. The first through seventh, closing performances were held Saturday, Nov. 10, 1962; Wednesday, Nov. 14; Thursday, Nov. 22; Monday, Nov. 26; Saturday, Dec. 1; Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963; and Thursday, Jan. 24.
Thomas Schippers (March 9, 1930-Dec. 16, 1977) conducted all seven performances. The American conductor had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Dec. 23, 1955, in double feature performances. He conducted the premiere of Soirée, a ballet choreographed by Philadelphia-born American choreographer and dancer Zachary Solov (Feb. 15, 1923-Nov. 6, 2004) to music by 20th-century composer, conductor and pianist Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (Nov. 22,1913-Dec. 4, 1976), and 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868). His second same-day debut occurred in a new production of Don Pasquale by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) in the opera company's 42nd performance of the Rome-set opera buffa ("comic opera").
Carlo Bergonzi (July 13, 1924-July 25, 2014) sang the title role in the season's fourth (Monday, Nov. 26) and fifth (Saturday broadcast, Dec. 1) performances of Ernani. The Italian operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1956, as Radamès in the opera company's 600th performance of Verdi's Aida.
Carlo Bergonzi shared the role with Franco Corelli (April 8, 1921-Oct. 29, 2003), who sang the title role in the first through third, sixth and seventh, closing performances. The Italian tenor had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Jan. 27, 1961, in the title role of Manrico in the opera company's 320th performance of Verdi's Il Trovatore.
Leontyne Price (Mary Violet Leontyne Price; born Feb. 10, 1927) appeared in all seven performances as Elvira, whose reciprocated love for Ernani is troubled by matrimonial offers from the King of Spain and from her uncle. The American spinto soprano had made her Met Opera debut Friday, Jan. 27, 1961, as Leonora in the opera company's 320th performance of Verdi's Il Trovatore.
Cornell MacNeil (Sep. 24, 1922-July 15, 2011) appeared as Don Carlo, King of Spain, in the season's first five Ernani performances, including the Saturday, Dec. 1, broadcast. The American operatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, March 21, 1959, in the title role in the opera company's 390th performance of Verdi's Rigoletto.
Cornell MacNeil shared the role with Mario Sereni (March 25, 1928-July 24, 2015), who sang as the King of Spain in the sixth through seventh, closing performances. The Italian baritone had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Nov. 9, 1957, as Carlo Gérard in the opera company's 81st performance of Andrea Chénier by Italian verismo (“realism”) composer Umberto Giordano (Aug. 28, 1867-Nov. 12, 1948).
Giorgio Tozzi (Jan. 8, 1923-May 30, 2011) appeared as Elvira's uncle, Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, in the fourth through seventh, closing performances, including the Saturday, Dec. 1, broadcast. The American operatic bass had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, March 9, 1955, as Alvise in the opera company's 172nd performance of La Gioconda by Italian opera composer Amilcare Ponchielli (Aug. 31, 1834-Jan. 16, 1886).
Giorgio Tozzi shared the role with Jerome Hines (Nov. 8, 1921-Feb. 4, 2003), who sang Don Ruy Gomez de Silva in the first three performances. assumed the title of Met Opera's eighth Boris. The American operatic bass had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, Nov. 21, 1946, as the Officer in the opera company's 105th performance of Boris Godunov by Russian Romantic era composer Modest Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839-March 28, 1881).
The 1962-1963 season's staging of Ernani marked the first revival of a new production that had debuted, with costumes and sets designed by Esteban Francés (July 30, 1913-Sep. 21, 1976), in the 1956-1957 season. The Catalonian surrealist painter had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 23, 1956, as the new production's designer in the opera company's 24th performance of Ernani. The Francés-designed production experienced a second revival in the 1964-1965 season. Its third, and last, revival took place in the 1970-1971 season.
The Met Opera's March 2, 2024, Saturday matinee airing of the opera company's Saturday, Dec. 1, 1962, performance of Verdi's Ernani numbers as the second of the 2023-2024 season's five Saturday matinee archival opera broadcasts. Met Opera's Saturday, April 7, 1956, performance of Le Nozze di Figaro by Classical Era composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791) aired Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, as the 2023-2024 season's first Saturday matinee archival opera broadcast. The Saturday, April 6, 1974, performance of L'Elisir d'Amore by Italian composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) airs April 6 Saturday matinee as the season's third Saturday matinee archival opera broadcast. The Saturday radio matinee on April 13 features the New Year's Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1986, performance of Die Fledermaus ("The Flittermouse" or "The Bat") by Austrian light music composer Johann Strauss II (Oct. 25, 1825-June 3, 1899) as the season's fourth Saturday matinee archival opera broadcast. The Saturday matinee on May 25 replays the Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, performance of La Fanciulla del West by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924) as the season's fifth Saturday matinee archival opera broadcast.
Verdi's La Forza del Destino broadcasts March 9, 2024, at noon, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, as the 2023-2024 Met Opera season's 14th Saturday matinee broadcast. The 2023-2024 season's new production of Verdi's fate-themed opera under the directorship of Polish opera, theatre and film director Mariusz Treliński (born March 28, 1962) debuts Monday, Feb. 26, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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| American conductor Thomas Schippers conducted all 18 performances of the first through third, and last, revivals of the Esteban Francés-designed, 1956-1957 season-debuting production of Verdi's Ernani: Nancy Spada @NancyS50622, via X (formerly Twitter) Dec. 16, 2023 |
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Three years nine and one-half months after his conductorship of Met Opera's Saturday, Dec. 1, 1962, performance of Verdi's Ernani, Thomas Schippers conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966, as the inaugural opera for the Metropolitan Opera's new Metropolitan Opera House in Upper West Side Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: WCPE TheClassicalStation, via Facebook March 9, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/TheClassicalStation/posts/10156011544676190/
American conductor Thomas Schippers conducted all 18 performances of the first through third, and last, revivals of the Esteban Francés-designed, 1956-1957 season-debuting production of Verdi's Ernani: Nancy Spada @NancyS50622, via X (formerly Twitter) Dec. 16, 2023, @ https://twitter.com/NancyS50622/status/1735985818559275178
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