This retrospective honors an artist who made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1950 at age 20 and remained there for the next 35 years. We hear her in some of her signature roles as Rosina in the Barber of Seville, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, the page boy in A Masked Ball, the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and much more.
Remembering Roberta Peters
Playlist
Playlist
Mozart: The Magic Flute, “Aria of the Queen of the Night”
Roberta Peters with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Karl Bohm Recorded in Berlin in 1964
LP: DGG 2709 017
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, “Saper Vorreste”
Roberta Peters with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos Recorded in New York in 1958
LP: RCA VICTOR LM-1911
Rossini: The Barber of Seville, “Dunque Io Son”
Roberta Peters and Robert Merrill with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
Recorded in New York in 1958
RCA VICTOR 09026- 68552-2
Debussy: “Appariition”
Roberta Peters with George Trovillo, piano
Recorded in New York in 1958
RCA VICTOR 09026-68167-2
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, “RegnavanelSilenzio”
RobertaPeters with the RCA VICTOR ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Renato Cellini
Recorded in New York in 1954
LP: RCA VICTOR LM 1786
