Conductor:James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus Chorus Master:David Stivender
Production:Jean-Pierre Ponnelle For "Live from the Met"
Set and Costume Design:Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Executive Producer:Michael Bronson
Associate Designer:David Reppa Producer:Samuel J.Paul
Lighting Design:Gil Wechsler Director:Brian Large
Revival staged by:Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Audio Director:Jay David Saks
and Grischa Asagaroff
General Manager:Peter Gelb Music Director:James Levine
Marilyn Horne on singing Rossini's Italian Girl:"I don't know where she leaves off and I Begin:the character comes easily to me." "When the music called for heroic flourishes, Horne dispatched it brilliantly. But no less impressive were her softly controlled tones, in which she seemed to be reaching for and finding new subtleties of shading and expressiveness... Levine conducts a suitably light and fleet performance... Ponnelle's production is rich in high-spirted invention." (New York Times)