James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala

Country

United States

How it feels

This is a filmed record of a special gala concert at the Metropolitan Opera in 1996, honoring conductor James Levine's 25 years with the company. It features excerpts from many different operas performed by leading singers of the time.

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What happens

James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala was a concert lasting (including intermissions) approximately eight hours, that the Metropolitan Opera staged in 1996 in honour of its then principal conductor and artistic director. Excerpts from the gala were released by Deutsche Grammophon on a 72-minute CD, a 161-minute VHS videocassette and a 161-minute double Laserdisc in 1996, and on a 293-minute double DVD in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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