Five CSO music directors—Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, and Sir Georg Solti—lead orchestral excerpts from operas by Beethoven, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Strauss. The program closes with several selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Opera Without Words
Playlist
Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture, by Mikhail Glinka
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
Leonore Overture, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Waltz Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
Suite from The Tender Land, by Aaron Copland
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor
Overture to William Tell, by Gioachino Rossini
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, by Richard Wagner
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Artur Rodzinski, conductor
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried, by Richard Wagner
Chicago Symphony Orchesta; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, by Richard Wagner
Chicago Symphony Orchesta; Daniel Barenboim, conductor