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

[@adeeo]

All are just wonderful, but DAME GWYNETH JONES & EDITA GRUBEROVA ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD....

[@luisnorbertogomez7058]

Todos grandes cantantes y gran director:hermoso gracias

[@accs4]

Thank you!

[@iubanne]

Amazing

[@markcombrinck-hertz3649]

thask yiuu

[@Toscarpia]

Great evening indeed !!! Too bad the sound quality isn't up to the artistic one...

[@doGreatartistsgrowontrees]

Rysanek sounds like I do in the shower when trying to imitate opera singing. And doesn’t today’s Netrebko sound much like her, wobble and all, complete with the open-arms-gesture business?