Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Pierre Boulez, conductor

Tchaikovsky  Symphony No. 6 In B Minor, Op  74 (Pathétique) (October 2021)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Ray Chen, violin

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole for Violin And Orchestra, Op . 21

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi diretta da Carlos Kleiber con l'Orchestra e il Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cecilia Gasdia, Peter Dvorský, Giorgio Zancanaro, il 20 dicembre 1984.

"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" da La Traviata - di Giuseppe Verdi

Vivaldi: Concerto Op.3 No. 10 In B Minor, RV 580 (4 Violins, vlc, strings and continuo) - 1.Allegro

PONCHIELLI: Dance of The Hours from "La Gioconda"

For his 1871 opera celebrating the world of ancient Egypt, Giuseppe Verdi invented a strange musical world full of pungent harmonies and curling arabesques to give an otherworldly character to the prayers to the god Ptah. Marcy Stonikas sings the Priestess in Seattle Opera’s “Aida." John Fiore conducts the chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

To learn more about operatic orientalism, go to http://www.seattleoperablog.com/2015/10/western-fantasies-of-east-orientalism.html

Verdi's "Ancient Egyptian" Music

Lithuanian soprano Ausrine Stundyte sang Tosca at several of the January 2015 performances of Puccini’s popular melodrama, before an illness forced her to cancel. Here she sings a passage from her famous Act Two aria, “Vissi d’arte.”
“I gave my jewels for the Madonna’s cloak. I gave my song to heaven, and it became even more beautiful. In the hour of my sorrow, why, why, O Lord, do You repay me thus?”
Julian Kovatchev conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Elise Bakketun.

TOSCA: "Vissi d'arte"

The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra live in concert, Sunday, 13 February, 2011 at Roswell Presbyterian Church in Roswell, Georgia. Julie Andrijeski, Karen Clarke, violins, and Stephanie Vial, cello.

Grand Concerto in G, Op. 6 No. 1, G. F. Handel, Movement 2

Beethoven Symphony No. 7, II Allegretto

Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Winter

Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera is a leading American opera company. The company presents the classics of the European repertoire as well as new works of American opera. Frequent productions of Wagner's RING, beginning in 1975, established the company's worldwide reputation. Seattle Opera usually presents five opera productions each year.

TOSCA: "Vissi d'arte"

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