BALLO IN MASCHERA @ Covent Garden ~ 1975

Above: Elizabeth Bainbridge

A performance of Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA in 1975 was televised live. 

Watch and listen here.

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Riccardo – Plácido Domingo; Renato – Piero Cappuccilli; Amelia – Katia Ricciarelli ; Ulrica – Elizabeth Bainbridge;  Oscar – Reri Grist; Silvano – William Elvin; Samuele – Gwynne Howell; Tom – Paul Hudson

Placido Domingo and Reri Grist were in my first-ever BALLO at The Met in 1970. And Ms. Bainbridge is a grand, Olde School English contralto Ulrica.