Met Matinées
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
(with cuts)
Theo Adam (Hans Sachs), James King (Walther), Pilar Lorengar (Eva), Benno Kusche (Beckmesser), Ezio Flagello (Pogner), Loren Driscoll (David), Shirley Love (Magdalene), Donald Gramm (Kothner), James Morris (Hans Schwarz)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Benno Kusche offers a vivid, traditional Beckmesser; and Ezio Flagello is a fine Pogner —
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Leonie Rysanek (Elisabetta), Irene Dalis (Eboli), Franco Corelli (Don Carlo), Nicolae Herlea (Rodrigo), Giorgio Tozzi (Filippo II), Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore), Marcia Baldwin (Tebaldo), Junetta Jones (Una voce dal cielo), Justino Díaz (Un Frate)
Metropolitan Opera, Kurt Adler
Corelli, one of the period's most viscerally exciting tenors, adds high notes and generally shows off, but in a way that is regularly thrilling. Leonie Rysanek's Elisabetta possesses discretion... —
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Nello Santi conducts Mascagni & Leoncavallo
Eileen Farrell (Santuzza), Richard Tucker (Turiddu), Cesare Bardelli (Alfio), Mildred Miller (Lola), Lili Chookasian (Mamma Lucia), Franco Corelli (Canio), Lucine Amara (Nedda), Anselmo Colzani (Tonio), Franco Ghitti (Beppe), Calvin Marsh (Silvio)
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Puccini: La Bohème
Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Licia Albanese (Mimì), Mario Sereni (Marcello), Laurel Hurley (Musetta), Norman Scott (Colline) & Clifford Harvuot (Schaunard)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers
Schippers's control of the ensembles is exemplary...[Albanese] is the most fragile Mimi I've ever heard...[Bergonzi] has absolute ease with Rodolfo's music...This thoroughly idiomatic performance... —
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Thomas Stewart (Wotan), Leonie Rysanek (Sieglinde), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Karl Ridderbusch (Hunding)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Berislav Klobucar
[Klobucar] has a spectacular cast in this Die Walkure, with a virtually ideal pair of incestuous twins in Jon Vickers and Leonie Rysanek...Things get exciting in Act II, where Nilsson shows... —
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