GREAT PERFORMANCES: CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramatic arts programs.
This program presents a Christmas concert recorded at Vienna’s City Hall, featuring opera tenor José Carreras, singer Diana Ross, and opera tenor Plácido Domingo. Highlights include: Carreras performing "Mille Cherubini in Coro” by Franz Schubert; Ross performing a version of “Amazing Grace”; Domingo performing “Wiegenlied” by Johannes Brahms; Carreras and Ross performing “Carol of the Drum” by Katherine K. Davis; Ross and Domingo performing “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin; Carreras performing “Ave Maria” by Schubert; Ross performing “If We Hold On Together”; Domingo performing another version of “Ave Maria” by Pietro Mascagni; Ross performing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” by John D. Marks; Carreras and Domingo performing “Adeste Fideles”; Carreras, Ross, and Domingo performing a medley arranged by Lalo Schifrin, including “O Tannenbaum,” “O Holy Night,” “Jingle Bells,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and “Joy to the World”; and Carreras, Ross, and Domingo performing “Stille Nacht” by Franz Xaver Gruber.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
- DATE: December 12, 1993 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:01:40
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 105650
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Music
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1972-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Ernst Neuspiel … Executive Producer
- Fritz Buttenstedt … Executive Producer
- Jac Venza … Executive Producer
- Boris Riaskov … Producer
- David Horn … Series Producer
- Kurt Pongratz … Director
- Andrew Somper … Director
- Andy Ward … Director
- Lalo Schifrin … Music by
- Maurice Jarre … Theme Music by
- Vjekoslav Šutev … Conductor
- Elisabeth Ziegler … Conductor
- Wiener Symphoniker … Symphony Orchestra
- Gumpoldskirchner Kinderchor … Chorus
- José Carreras … Performer
- Diana Ross … Performer
- Plácido Domingo … Performer
- Irving Berlin
- Johannes Brahms
- Katherine K. Davis
- Franz Xaver Gruber
- John D. Marks
- Pietro Mascagni
- Frank Schubert