GREAT SOUNDING ORIGINAL REEL MET BROADCAST SERIES.
Special release on 2CDs with announcements/curtain calls by Milton Cross, an excerpt of the Opera Quiz with Edward Downes, Mrs. Mary Ellis Peltz,, Luigi Cioni, Jay Harrison and Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and a speech by Kiri te Kanawa.
Metropolitan Opera House
December 30, 1961 Matinee Broadcast
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO {102}
Giuseppe Verdi--Francesco Maria Piave
Leonora.................Eileen Farrell
Don Alvaro..............Richard Tucker
Don Carlo...............Robert Merrill
Padre Guardiano.........Jerome Hines
Preziosilla.............Helen Vanni
Fra Melitone............Fernando Corena
Marquis de Calatrava....Louis Sgarro
Curra...................Carlotta Ordassy
Trabuco.................Alessio De Paolis
Surgeon.................George Cehanovsky
Conductor...............George Schick
GREAT SOUNDING ORIGINAL REEL MET BROADCAST SERIES.
Special release on 2CDs with announcements/curtain calls by Milton Cross.
Metropolitan Opera House
January 12, 1963 Matinee Broadcast
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA {86}
Giuseppe Verdi--Antonio Somma
Amelia..................Birgit Nilsson
Riccardo................Richard Tucker
Renato..................Robert Merrill
Ulrica..................Jean Madeira
Oscar...................Mattiwilda Dobbs
Samuel..................Bonaldo Giaiotti
Tom.....................John Macurdy
Silvano.................Roald Reitan
Judge...................Andrea Velis
Servant.................Robert Nagy
Dance...................Judith Chazin
Dance...................Ron Sequoio
Dance...................William Burdick
Conductor...............Nello Santi