OPERA CONCERT: Arteta, DiDonato, Alberghini, Blackwell, Hohenfeld, von Stade, Croft, Gavin //Slatkin

Excerpts from the 2001 telecast "Concert for America" with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
MOZART: Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte) - beginning missing
Ainhoa Arteta, soprano; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Simone Alberghini, baritone
VERDI: Ascolta… Dio, che nell'alma infondere (Don Carlo) 3:33
Julian Gavin, tenor; Dwayne Croft, baritone
Heinz Fricke, conductor
RACHMANINOFF: Vocalise 7:30
SPIRITUAL: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands 12:30
Harolyn Blackwell,, soprano
Betty Bullock, piano
FAURÉ: Pie Jesu (Requiem) 15:30
Linda Hohenfeld, soprano
RAVEL: Kaddish (from Two Hebrew Melodies) 18:45
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
MAHLER: Finale from Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") 24:10
Linda Hohenfeld, soprano
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
Vocalise

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Thank you so much. So many great voices. Good concert.

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If ever a concert can truly be called historic, it was this one. We're greatly in your debt for preserving it here for us.