Judith Blegen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Missoula, Montana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 27, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Other
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L'Elisir d'Amore
Overview: The Metropolitan Opera performance of L'Elisir d'Amore is conducted by Nicola Rescigno and features Luciano Pavarotti in the title role. Donizetti's graceful melodies have long endeared his L'Elisir d'Amore to operatic audiences and performers alike. Judith Blegen, Louise Wohlafka, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicola Rescigno, Sesto Bruscantini.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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Un Ballo in Maschera
Overview: Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Die Fledermaus
Overview: Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-12-31
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Hansel & Gretel - The Met
Overview: The Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert Humperdinck and is conducted by Thomas Fulton. The Met's storybook production cheerfully evokes a magic world of woodland sprites and candy dreams and yet brings as well the entire apparatus of Wagnerian music and drama to bear on a German fairy tale. This production is sung in English, and features the Metropolitan Opera, Chorus, and Ballet.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Der Rosenkavalier
Overview: In this stunning performance from 1982, Strauss’s enchanting fairy tale for adults is blessed with a cast, conductor, and production that have made it legendary—complete with superstar Luciano Pavarotti in the cameo role of the Italian Singer. Gorgeous Kiri Te Kanawa is the Marschallin, the gracious noblewoman who understands that her affair with a younger man cannot last. Tatiana Troyanos is every bit the passionate seventeen year old Octavian who swears he will never love another woman—until he meets the bewitching Sophie (Judith Blegen) when he presents her with a silver rose on behalf of the loutish Baron Ochs (Kurt Moll). James Levine’s inspired leading of the Met orchestra and the enthralling production by Nathaniel Merrill and Robert O’Hearn combine to bring Old Vienna, with its timeless elegance, to life once again.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Elixir of Love
Overview: The incomparable Luciano Pavarotti at his most eloquent brings Donizetti’s Nemorino to live as only he can, combining vocal fireworks, personal charisma, and charm. The enchanting production by Nathaniel Merrill, with designs by Robert O’Hearn, is the perfect setting for Nemorino’s quest to win the heart of beautiful Adina, sung by the sparkling Judith Blegen. Brent Ellis as Belcore and Sesto Bruscantini as Dr. Dulcamara round out the all-star cast. Nicola Rescigno conducts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Overview: Leonard Bernstein made these recordings during his wonderfully productive collaboration with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the mid-1970s when he was at the peak of his career. Humphrey Burton's direction is, as always, very fine, giving the viewer/listener both the larger picture and highlighting individual soloists, players or groups of musicians and, of course, the maestro. The video and audio tracks show their age, but are quite acceptable even for today's standards. Bernstein's Seventh is everything one could desire: dark and spooky, highly sensual, but also structurally strong and assertive where needed. Bernstein's reading does not gloss over breakdowns in tonality and the foreshadowing of later musical developments.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-17
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Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)
Overview: Haydn’s Creation, the culmination of his life’s work, in a legendary 1986 performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein in the exquisite Baroque splendor of the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren, Bavaria, now available on DVD for the first time. This spectacular performance also includes Bernstein’s spoken introduction to the performance —always an invaluable addition to any concert. This work, considered by many to be Haydn’s masterpiece, depicts the creation of the world as inspired by the texts of Genesis, the Book of Psalms and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Though deeply religious in conception, the oratorio gives a physical sense of the immensity of nature and the world’s creation. “The Creation gives us time to remember—and rejoice in— the purity and grace and fortitude of Nature, to restore our souls, to recover our moral strength, and to rediscover our power to praise”—Leonard Bernstein
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-14
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Bach: Magnificat - Karajan
Overview: Live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243 from Herbert von Karajan's New Year's Eve concert in 1984.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 & Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-07-30
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