Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Leontyne Price (Amelia), Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Robert Merrill (Renato), Shirley Verrett (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Mario Basiola Jnr (Silvano), Ezio Flagello (Samuele), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Tom)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana...
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Leontyne Price (Amelia), Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Robert Merrill (Renato), Shirley Verrett (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Mario Basiola Jnr (Silvano), Ezio Flagello (Samuele), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Tom)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana...
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CD includes a booklet with a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast list and detailed track list.
Contents and tracklist
- Piero de Palma (tenor), Fernando Iacopucci (tenor), Ferruccio Mazzoli (bass), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Reri Grist (soprano), Ezio Flagello (bass), Mario Basiola, Jr. (baritone)
- RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, RCA Italiana Opera Chorus
- Erich Leinsdorf
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Awards and reviews
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana Opera forces still packs a real punch; the eerie melodrama of both the incantation-scene (a hair-raising Shirley Verrett as Ulrica) and the graveyard sequence chill to the bone.
