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  • IL TABARRO @ La Scala ~ 1983

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    Above: Piero Cappuccilli as Michele in Puccini’s IL TABARRO at La Scala, 1983.

    Watch and listen here.

    Piero Cappuccilli – Michele
    Sylvia Sass – Giorgetta
    Nicola Martinucci – Luigi
    Sergio Bertocchi – Il ‘Tinca’
    Aldo Bramante – Il ‘Talpa’
    Eleonora Jankovic – La frugola
    Ernesto Gavazzi – Venditore di canzonette
    Vito Gobbi – Voce interna
    Jeda Valtriani – Voce interna
    Bruno Brando – Un amante

    Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni

  • BALLO IN MASCHERA @ Covent Garden ~ 1975

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    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.

  • Tomowa-Sintow/Pavarotti: BALLO ~ Geneva 1984

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    Riccardo Chailly conducts Verdi’s BALLO IN MASCHERA at Geneva, 1984, starring Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappuccilli, Mignon Dunn, and Danielle Borst. Poor video quality, but musically exciting.

    Watch and listen here.