A brief and rather bizarre black & white film of excerpts from AIDA from a performance given at Orange on a windy evening in 1977. Gilda Cruz-Romo is Aida and Grace Bumbry is Amneris, with Luigi Roni as the King of Egypt and Peter Gougalov as Radames. Thomas Schippers conducts.
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Thomas Schippers (above) conducts a performance of Verdi’s DON CARLO given by RAI Rome in 1969.
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CAST:
Don Carlo: Bruno Prevedi
Elisabetta: Teresa Zylis-Gara
Philip II: Nicolai Ghiaurov
Princess Eboli: Fiorenza Cossotto
Rodrigo: Piero Cappuccilli
Grand Inquisitor: Dimiter Petkov
A Monk: Ubaldo Caroli
The beloved Polish soprano Teresa Zylis-Gara sings Elisabetta’s great aria “Tu che le vanità” from Verdi’s DON CARLO, from a performance given at Rome in 1969. Thomas Schippers conducts.
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Oberon's Glade 