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Tag: Elizabeth Bainbridge

  • BALLO IN MASCHERA @ Covent Garden ~ 1975

    Bainbridge

    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.

  • Sleepwalking Scene

    Montserrat-Caball

    I’ve re-discovered Montserrat Caballe’s atmospheric recording of the Sleepwalking Scene from Verdi’s MACBETH. Elizabeth Bainbridge and Sir Thomas Allen provide world-class support as the Gentlewoman and Doctor.

    Montserrat Caballe – Sleepwalking Scene ~ MACBETH – w Elizabeth Bainbridge and Sir Thomas Allen

    LADY MACBETH
    A spot…still here.
    Out, damned spot! I curse you!
    One, two, it is time!
    You are trembling? You do not dare to go in?
    A soldier, and a’feard?
    For shame! Come…hurry!
    Who’d have thought that old man
    could have so much blood in him?

    DOCTOR
    What did she say?

    LADY MACBETH
    The Thane of Fife,
    was he not a husband and father?
    What happened?

    GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
    Oh, horror!

    LADY MACBETH
    Shall I never be able
    to clean these hands?
    There’s blood here still.
    All the perfumes of Arabia
    could not cleanse this little hand.
    Alas!

    DOCTOR
    She sighs…?

    LADY MACBETH
    Put on your nightgown. Come, wash yourself!
    Banquo is dead, and the dead
    cannot come back from the grave.

    DOCTOR
    This too?

    LADY MACBETH
    To bed, to bed …
    What’s done cannot be undone.
    Someone is knocking! Come, Macbeth…
    let not your pallor accuse you.

    GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
    What terror…!
    Lord, have mercy on her…