Hector Berlioz - TE DEUM OP. 22
Richard Wagner - Overture to DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG

Following his comeback performance at the Vienna State Opera in 1988, this gala concert from the Alte Oper Frankfurt given on September 12, 1992, was one in a series of highly acclaimed performances that marked José Carreras' return to the concert platform after his battle against leukaemia in 1987/88.

Providing the high musical and artistic level of this evening, alongside Carreras are the Vienna Philharmonic - celebrating its 150th anniversary -, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Tölzer Boys Choir, all under the baton of conductor Claudio Abbado.