Washington Concert Opera's Il pirata, the only one in its history. WCO's own performance history lists Il pirata in its 2000-01 season (https://concertopera.org/past-repertoire, and the same list as archived in 2002 at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123913/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815172.htm, which gives it as "2000-2001: Jenufa (Janacek), Il pirata (Bellini)"). Stephen Crout was WCO's founder and music director until his retirement in 2001. Franco Pomponi's own biography names "Ernesto in IL PIRATA at Washington Concert Opera" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130901232610/http://www.francopomponi.com:80/francopomponi.com/Biography.html), and The Washington Post (Tim Page, 16 April 2002) dates his WCO debut to 2001. Nelly Miricioiu is the Imogene and Bruce Fowler the Gualtiero of the folder name and of the files ID3 tags ("Miricioiu,Fowler;Crout,Washington Live-01", date 2001); Fowler is taken to be the Rossini/bel-canto tenor Bruce Fowler (4239) rather than John Fowler on repertoire. The day and month come only from the folder name and those tags: 22 April 2001 was a Sunday, WCO's performance day at Lisner Auditorium, and no archive contradicts it, but no source states it. One caution for a later reader: Miricioiu's own website biography marks her 2003 Amsterdam Imogene as a role debut. The audio is not that 2003 Carella performance (recording 377) - probe-window correlation across the whole of rip-1297 finds no consistent alignment, and the playing times are 135.2 and 163.2 minutes.

Washington Concert Opera's Il pirata, the only one in its history. WCO's own performance history lists Il pirata in its 2000-01 season (https://concertopera.org/past-repertoire, and the same list as archived in 2002 at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123913/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815172.htm, which gives it as "2000-2001: Jenufa (Janacek), Il pirata (Bellini)"). Stephen Crout was WCO's founder and music director until his retirement in 2001. Franco Pomponi's own biography names "Ernesto in IL PIRATA at Washington Concert Opera" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130901232610/http://www.francopomponi.com:80/francopomponi.com/Biography.html), and The Washington Post (Tim Page, 16 April 2002) dates his WCO debut to 2001. Nelly Miricioiu is the Imogene and Bruce Fowler the Gualtiero of the folder name and of the files ID3 tags ("Miricioiu,Fowler;Crout,Washington Live-01", date 2001); Fowler is taken to be the Rossini/bel-canto tenor Bruce Fowler (4239) rather than John Fowler on repertoire. The day and month come only from the folder name and those tags: 22 April 2001 was a Sunday, WCO's performance day at Lisner Auditorium, and no archive contradicts it, but no source states it. One caution for a later reader: Miricioiu's own website biography marks her 2003 Amsterdam Imogene as a role debut. The audio is not that 2003 Carella performance (recording 377) - probe-window correlation across the whole of rip-1297 finds no consistent alignment, and the playing times are 135.2 and 163.2 minutes.

Washington Concert Opera's Il pirata, the only one in its history. WCO's own performance history lists Il pirata in its 2000-01 season (https://concertopera.org/past-repertoire, and the same list as archived in 2002 at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123913/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815172.htm, which gives it as "2000-2001: Jenufa (Janacek), Il pirata (Bellini)"). Stephen Crout was WCO's founder and music director until his retirement in 2001. Franco Pomponi's own biography names "Ernesto in IL PIRATA at Washington Concert Opera" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130901232610/http://www.francopomponi.com:80/francopomponi.com/Biography.html), and The Washington Post (Tim Page, 16 April 2002) dates his WCO debut to 2001. Nelly Miricioiu is the Imogene and Bruce Fowler the Gualtiero of the folder name and of the files ID3 tags ("Miricioiu,Fowler;Crout,Washington Live-01", date 2001); Fowler is taken to be the Rossini/bel-canto tenor Bruce Fowler (4239) rather than John Fowler on repertoire. The day and month come only from the folder name and those tags: 22 April 2001 was a Sunday, WCO's performance day at Lisner Auditorium, and no archive contradicts it, but no source states it. One caution for a later reader: Miricioiu's own website biography marks her 2003 Amsterdam Imogene as a role debut. The audio is not that 2003 Carella performance (recording 377) - probe-window correlation across the whole of rip-1297 finds no consistent alignment, and the playing times are 135.2 and 163.2 minutes.

Washington Concert Opera's Il pirata, the only one in its history. WCO's own performance history lists Il pirata in its 2000-01 season (https://concertopera.org/past-repertoire, and the same list as archived in 2002 at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123913/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815172.htm, which gives it as "2000-2001: Jenufa (Janacek), Il pirata (Bellini)"). Stephen Crout was WCO's founder and music director until his retirement in 2001. Franco Pomponi's own biography names "Ernesto in IL PIRATA at Washington Concert Opera" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130901232610/http://www.francopomponi.com:80/francopomponi.com/Biography.html), and The Washington Post (Tim Page, 16 April 2002) dates his WCO debut to 2001. Nelly Miricioiu is the Imogene and Bruce Fowler the Gualtiero of the folder name and of the files ID3 tags ("Miricioiu,Fowler;Crout,Washington Live-01", date 2001); Fowler is taken to be the Rossini/bel-canto tenor Bruce Fowler (4239) rather than John Fowler on repertoire. The day and month come only from the folder name and those tags: 22 April 2001 was a Sunday, WCO's performance day at Lisner Auditorium, and no archive contradicts it, but no source states it. One caution for a later reader: Miricioiu's own website biography marks her 2003 Amsterdam Imogene as a role debut. The audio is not that 2003 Carella performance (recording 377) - probe-window correlation across the whole of rip-1297 finds no consistent alignment, and the playing times are 135.2 and 163.2 minutes.