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Summary:

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini's and Mozart's operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano's "grand opera buffa" The Ghosts of Versailles--an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Beaumarchais's third Figaro play, La Mère Coupable, and commissioned by the Met to celebrate its 100th anniversary. This telecast captures its world premiere run, conducted by James Levine. Håkan Hagegård is Beaumarchais, Figaro's creator, who is deeply in love with Empress Marie Antoinette (Teresa Stratas in a heart-searing performance) and determined to rewrite history and save her from the guillotine. A young Renée Fleming, at the beginning of her international career, sings the unfaithful Rosina. Gino Quilico is the wily Figaro who tries to take matters in his own hands and Marilyn Horne stops the show as the exotic entertainer Samira.

Table of Contents:

• Opening credits
• Mon cour sier hors d'haleine
• All powerful Queen of Beauty and ruler of my willing heart
• They are always with me: the unbounded waiting, the odor of blood on steel, the terrible sound
• My wife was always hard to please
• There's Figaro! Oh no! Here we go again!
• They wish they could kill me
• Bravo, Beaumarchais! Brilliant! ; Why are you weeping, your Majesty?
• Magic! It is Paris
• the autumn of ninety-three
• I am a wizard. My logic is magic
• And, with the one million pounds, grant her Majesty a safe refuge in the New World
• Fool! Idiot! Moron! You forgot where Almaviva plans to sell the jewels?
• I can't wait to betray Almaviva
• Oh, the lion may roar, and the eagle may soar
• I remember, Master, I remember!
• Poor Florestine, I pity her
• New scene. They say New York is a lively town
• Cherubino, Cherubino - Now we go back in time
• Look at the green here in the glade

• I've had enough! I see what's happening here
• Selamüaleyküm! [Welcome!]
• His Excellency, the English Ambassador
• I am in the valley and you are in the valley
• oomri! Limatha hajartani?
• Tafaddaloo marhaben bi koom ; Shall we?
• Hurry! Hurry! It's late! The second act is beginning!
• Watch. Now Figaro comes back
• Wait! Figaro was supposed to return the necklace
• Damn that Figaro! He's your husband
• As summer brings a wistful breeze
• And now I must go ; Bless you, Madam, bless you
• What is happening?
• Antoinette, we want your head! ; Order! Order!
• Marie Antoinette of Lorraine and Austria
• Monarchy. Revolution. It's all the same to me ; Women of Paris! Listen!
• Welcome, Madeleine, welcome
• Remember in the chestnut trees in the gardens of the Tuileries?
• I hope I'm not too late for your party!
• Interlude
• I am very well, my dear Marquis
• O God of love, of Lord of light
• We are finished ; Farewell, my faithful friend
• Look, her breathing is dimiinished
• Goodbye, Figaro. Goodbye, Beaumarchais
• No, Beaumarchais. It is as it should have been
• Once I was a golden bird
• Come, Antoinia
• Bows and closing credits.

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Author/Creator:

Corigliano, John, 1938- , composer

Contributors:

Stratas, Teresa , performer

Hagegård, Håkan , performer

Quilico, Gino , performer

Clark, Graham, 1941-2023 , performer

Horne, Marilyn , performer

Fleming, Renée , performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021 , conductor

Graham, Colin, 1931-2007 , director

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung in English; English subtitles.

Main Work:

The ghosts of Versailles [by Corigliano, J.]

Subjects:

Operas

Genres:

Operas

Internet videos

Online media

Performers:

Teresa Stratas ; Håkan Hagegård ; Gino Quilico ; Graham Clark ; Marilyn Horne ; Renée Fleming ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.

Production Credits:

Director, Colin Graham.

General Notes:

Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Recorded live 1992 the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on: Vendor-supplied metadata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (3 hr., 17 sec.)) : sound, color

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

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Universal Product Code: 811357013700

OCLC Numbers:

859396190