Leontyne Price Sings Mozart and Strauss
Star Soloists • 15-Sep-1982
Leontyne Price, one of the most acclaimed sopranos of her generation, joins the Philharmonic and then Music Director Zubin Mehta for selections by Mozart and Richard Strauss in this classic 1982 performance.
MOZART (1756–91)
Recitativo and Aria, Come scoglio, from Così fan tutte (1790)
R. STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Final Scene from Salome (1903–05)
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