Holender's goodbye gala - the video evidence

Here are a few of the best bits from Saturday's Vienna State Opera gala send-off for Ioan Holender. 

The whole thing was televised by Austrian broadcaster ORF, so there are no doubt further extracts floating around if you choose to dig.

For the second time in a week, Anna Netrebko is Manon. Bertrand de Billy conducts :

 

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Now he's a baritone, now he's a tenor. Plácido Domingo with the Winterstürme from Die Walküre, conductor Antonio Pappano:

Is there anything he can't do? Let's find out. Have-a-go Plácido takes up the conductor's baton for Ah! leve-toi soleil from Roméo et Juliette, sung by Ramón Vargas:

Piotr Beczala and Pourquoi me réveiller from Werther:

Set the controls for widescreen - it's Johan Botha with In fernem land from Lohengrin, Simone Young conducting:

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