Name: Ernani
Start: 2012-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Angela Meade

Elvira

Tenor

Roberto De Biasio

Ernani

Baritone

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Don Carlo

Bass

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Don Ruy Gomez de Silva

MaryAnn McCormick

Giovanna

Adam Herskowitz

Don Riccardo

Jeremy Galyon

Jago

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

Stage director

Pier Luigi Samaritani

Peter McClintock

Set designer

Costume designer

Peter J Hall

Lighting designer

Gil Wechsler

The Metropolitan Opera

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to opera. Aida is the role that inspired audiences around the world to acclaim her as the greatest Verdi soprano of her time. And this telecast shows why: the famous soaring phrases that seemed to never end, the shimmering top to her lustrous voice, undimmed by the years. But most of all, there is the ennobling heart and soul Price lavished on every performance—captured here forever. With James Levine conducting the Met orchestra, chorus, and ballet.

Rising Met star Angela Meade is Elvira, the young woman caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turned-outlaw Ernani (Marcello Giordani); her guardian, the rich, elderly de Silva, who wants her for himself (Ferruccio Furlanetto); and Don Carlo, the King of Spain (Dmitri Hvorostovsky), who also desires Elvira. Verdi’s early drama is full of sweeping melody and rousing rhythms, delivered masterfully by the Met Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Marco Armiliato.

Ernani Verdi

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading