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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492
- Overture
- IV: "Deh, vieni, non tardar, oh gioia bella"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527
- II: "Deh vieni alla finestra"
- I: "Là ci darem la mano"
Giuseppe Verdi, La forza del destino
- Overture
Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto
- I, 2: "È il sol dell'anima" - "Addio... speranza ed anima"
- I: "Caro nome che il mio cor" (Gilda)
- III: "La donna è mobile" (Il duca di Mantova)
Giuseppe Verdi, Un ballo in maschera
- III, 1 - Aria : "Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
- Letter scene
Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata
- Prelude

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concert Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Verdi's greatest songs of love and desire With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside

With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside

Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Verdi's greatest songs of love and desire With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside

About

Love is the motto of the 1998 New Year's Eve Concert.

And who wrote better music about love than Mozart and Verdi?

Maestro Claudio Abbado has chosen two of the best Mozart interpreters of our day, Christine Schäfer and Simon Keenlyside, for this traditionally meaningful event.

Marcelo Álvarez from Argentina, compared by some to a young Domingo, sings highlights of the tenor repertoire, and Italian Primadonna Mirella Freni tops the occasion with a breathtaking performance of the "Letter" scene of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin.

Cast

Christine Schäfer | Soprano
Mirella Freni | Soprano
Marcelo Raúl Álvarez | Tenor
Simon Keenlyside | Baritone
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado | Conductor

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492
- Overture
- IV: "Deh, vieni, non tardar, oh gioia bella"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, K. 527
- II: "Deh vieni alla finestra"
- I: "Là ci darem la mano"
Giuseppe Verdi, La forza del destino
- Overture
Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto
- I, 2: "È il sol dell'anima" - "Addio... speranza ed anima"
- I: "Caro nome che il mio cor" (Gilda)
- III: "La donna è mobile" (Il duca di Mantova)
Giuseppe Verdi, Un ballo in maschera
- III, 1 - Aria : "Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
- Letter scene
Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata
- Prelude