OPERA CONCERT: Araiza, Jones, MPrice, Prey, Nucci, Rysanek, Gruberova, Battle, Ludwig, Tomawa-Sintow

(Re-post with better(?) sound quality!) 1987 GALA OF STARS telecast from Vienna, hosted by *BEVERLY SILLS,* including PBS membership drive with singers’ fundraising pleas. Overture to DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE *MARGARET PRICE,* soprano: Ecco, respiro appena... Io son l’umile ancella [Adriana Lecouvreur - Cilea] 8:50 *FRANCISCO ARAIZA,* tenor: Che gelida manina (La Bohème - Puccini) 13:40 *DAME GWYNETH JONES,* soprano: In questa reggia (Turandot - Puccini) 20:25 *JERRY HADLEY,* tenor promotes PBS membership 29:00 Interview with soprano *PATRICE MUNSEL* (& former NYC Mayor John Lindsay) 36:55 Interview with soprano *LJUBA WELITSCH* 45:50 *EDITA GRUBEROVA,* soprano: Regnava nel silenzio… Quando rapito in estasi 48:50 *HERMAN PREY,* baritone: Ihr bild (Schubert, arr. Webern); Erlkönig (Schubert, arr. Liszt) 58:50 *LEONIE RYSANEK,* soprano: Suicidio! (La Gioconda - Ponchielli) 1:08:24 *LEO NUCCI,* baritone: Largo al factotum (Il barbieri di Siviglia - Rossini) 1:14:20 Interview with soprano *LICIA ALBANESE* 1:28:10 *KATHLEEN BATTLE,* soprano: Allerseelen (Strauss) 1:34:45 *ANNA TOMAWA-SINTOW,* soprano: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Brahms) 1:38:22 *CHRISTA LUDWIG,* mezzo-soprano: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 1:43:20 Vienna Philharmonic *JAMES LEVINE,* conductor & pianist