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The Opera Quarterly 18.3 (2002) 377-383



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Alfredo Kraus:
The Last Decade, 1989-1999

Richard Miller

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The following attempts to provide a chronology of the major appearances by Alfredo Kraus in opera, concert, and recital during the final ten years of his career. In some instances, it serves to complete/emend listings for the years 1989-91 in the performance chronology given at the end of Giovanni Vitali's biography of the tenor (Bologna: Bongiovanni, 1992).

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WINTER 1989 Florence TEATRO COMUNALE
18 January: Recital, with José Tordesillas, piano

WINTER 1989 Vienna KONZERTHAUS
2 February: La favorita (2 concert performances), with Agnes Baltsa, Paolo Gavanelli; cond. Giuseppe Patanè

WINTER 1989 Vienna STAATSOPER
10 February: Werther (3), with Martine Dupuy, Noriko Sasaki, Hans Helm; cond. Alain Guingal

WINTER 1989 Vienna VOLKSOPER
21 February: Les contes d'Hoffmann (3)

WINTER 1989 Madrid TEATRO DE LA ZARZUELA
8 March: Rigoletto (5), with Patricia Wise, Eleonora Jankovich, John Rawnsley, Miguel Angel Zapater; cond. José Collado

SPRING 1989 Rome RAI
3 April: Concert conducted by Franco Mannino

SPRING 1989 Lisbon TEATRO S. CARLOS
13 April: Concert conducted by Anton García Navarro

SPRING 1989 Barcelona GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU
31 May: Lucrezia Borgia (5), with Joan Sutherland, Martine Dupuy, Simone Alaimo; cond. Richard Bonynge [End Page 377]

SPRING 1989 Paris THÉÂTRE DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
17 June: Lucrezia Borgia (in concert), with Joan Sutherland, Martine Dupuy, Michele Pertusi, Piero de Palma; cond. Richard Bonynge

SUMMER 1989 Paris OPERA BASTILLE
13 July: Inaugural concert, with June Anderson, Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Martine Dupuy, Alain Fondary, Barbara Hendricks, Jean-Pierre Lafont, Ruggero Raimondi, Shirley Verrett, Paris Opéra Orchestra, cond. Georges Prêtre. (Kraus sang "Ah! lève-toi, soleil" from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.)

AUTUMN 1989 Buenos Aires TEATRO COLÓN
23 September: Concert

AUTUMN-WINTER 1989 New York METROPOLITAN OPERA
6 December: Les contes d'Hoffmann (3), with Erie Mills, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, Brenda Boozer, José van Dam; cond. Sylvain Cambreling

WINTER 1990 New York METROPOLITAN OPERA
29 January: La traviata (4), with Edita Gruberova/Karen Huffstodt, Paolo Coni; cond. Michelangelo Veltri

WINTER 1990 Vienna STAATSOPER
20 February: L'elisir d'amore (2), with Alida Ferrarini, Georg Tichy, Giuseppe Taddei; cond. Ralf Weikert

WINTER 1990 Rome TEATRO DELL'OPERA
10 March: Werther (6), with Martha Senn, Patrizia Orciani, Roberto Frontali, Sesto Bruscantini; cond. Nicola Rescigno

SPRING 1990 Lisbon TEATRO S. CARLOS
28 April: Werther (2), with Ileana Cotrubas, Elsa Saque, Jorge Vaz de Carvalho; cond. Gian-Paolo Sanzogno

SPRING 1990 Lisbon TEATRO COLISEU
6 May: Werther (1), with Ileana Cotrubas, Elsa Saque, Jorge Vaz de Carvalho; cond. Gian-Paolo Sanzogno

SPRING 1990 Vienna MUSIKVEREIN
13 May: Recital, with Edelmiro Arnaltes, piano

SPRING-SUMMER 1990 New York Parks METROPOLITAN OPERA
13 June: La traviata (6, in concert), with Karen Huffstodt/Marilyn Mims, Sherrill Milnes; cond. Christian Badea

SUMMER 1990 Salzburg GROSSES FESTSPIELHAUS
31 July: Recital, with Edelmiro Arnaltes, piano

SUMMER 1990 Madrid PLAZA DE TOROS
29 August: Concert conducted by Gian-Paolo Sanzogno [End Page 378]

SUMMER 1990 Vienna STAATSOPER
4 September: La traviata (4), with Edita Gruberova, Giorgio Zancanaro; cond. Pinchas Steinberg

SUMMER 1990 Rome RAI
17 September: Lucia di Lammermoor (1), with Mariella Devia, Roberto Servile, Aurio Tomicich; cond. Franco Mannino

[AUTUMN 1990 Buenos Aires TEATRO COLÓN
23 September: Concert??]

AUTUMN 1990 New York METROPOLITAN OPERA
20 October: Rigoletto (3), with Sumi Jo, Willard White/Juan Pons, Nicolai Ghiaurov; cond. Guido Ajmone-Marsan

AUTUMN 1990 Chicago LYRIC OPERA
10 November: Lucia di Lammermoor (7), with June Anderson, Jonathan Summers, Francesco Ellero D'Artegna; cond. Donato Renzetti

AUTUMN 1990 Dallas CIVIC OPERA
13 December: Les contes d'Hoffmann (4), with Erie Mills, Isola Jones, Elizabeth Hynes, Kathleen Hegierski, Eric Halfvarson; cond. Reynald Giovaninetti

WINTER 1991 Bilbao TEATRO COLISEO ALBIA
6 February: La favorita (3), with Stefania Toczyska, Giorgio Zancanaro, A. Echeverría; cond. Gian-Paolo Sanzogno

WINTER 1991 Siena TEATRO DEI RINNOVATI
21 February: Recital, with Edelmiro Arnaltes, piano

SPRING 1991 Bologna PALACONGRESSI
24 April: Recital, with Edelmiro Arnaltes, piano

SPRING 1991 London ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN...

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