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Tag: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

  • 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.

  • Renata Scotto & Beniamino Prior ~ BALLO duet

    Scotto prior ballo

    Renata Scotto and Beniamino Prior sing the love duet from Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA from a performance given at Dallas, Texas, in 1978.

    Listen here.

  • Lorri Lail

    Lail-Lorri-02[1948]

    The Norwegian mezzo-soprano, Lorri Lail (née Laurie Lyle) was born in Oslo of Scottish descent. She made her debut as a concert singer around 1935. Her operatic roles included Ulrica in Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA and Bianca in Britten’s THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, but she is mainly remembered as a recitalist and oratorio singer.

    Lorri Lail – Sibelius song ~ Den första kyssen

    Lorri Lail made several North American concert tours with great success (the first in 1948). Her church concerts in Sweden, Norway and Finland were widely admired. From around 1950 to 1968 she lived in England, touring Europe and America as well as making recordings. Lail was considered an expert interpreter of the works of J S Bach. In 1968 she moved to Sweden, where she died in 1978.

    In 1953, Lorri Lail’s wonderful recording of Mahler’s Kindertotelieder was released on the Urania label. It has been copied from LP and can be heard on YouTube here.