Verdi: Un Ballo In Maschera

Luciano Pavarotti - Tenor, Katia Ricciareli - Soprano, Judith Blegen - Soprano, Bianca Berini - Mezzo-soprano, Louis Quilico - Baritone, Giuseppe Patane - Conductor, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus

This glorious performance, televised from the Met in 1980, has now justly become a milestone in the history of that renowned opera house. True follower of Toscanini, a legendary advocate of this, Verdi’s most passionate opera, Giuseppe Patane lets the dramatic intensity, lyricism, passion and even humour work naturally with his sense of pacing and well judged, but always exciting, tempi. A feast to the eye and the ear.
excerpt from Wholenote Magazine, July 2008
Pavarotti, in one of opera's most demanding tenor roles, leads an outstanding cast in Verdi'a drama of personal and political intrigue - culminating in an assasination at the masked ball. Elijah Moshinsky's production for the Met is set in colonial America - with Pavarotti as the doomed Riccardo, Governor of Boston.

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