The forged of this in-house pirate options Gabriella Tucci, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bruno Prevedi, Robet Merrill, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Martti Talvela. As this Verdi run occurred in the course of the fall, there was no Saturday matinee broadcast.
I don’t know if Abbado ever commented on why he by no means returned to the Met, however I would guess that the ever-changing casts—a frequent occurring in the course of the Bing period–he encountered throughout his stint may need been an element.
Beneath are the casts for that fall’s seven performances of Don Carlo:
Tucci, Dalis, Prevedi, Merrill, Ghiaurov, Talvela
Tucci, Cossotto, Prevedi, Merrill, Ghiaurov, Talvela
Tucci, Dalis, Prevedi, Merrill, Ghiaurov, Talvela
Tucci, Verrett, Prevedi, Merrill, Ghiaurov, Talvela
Orlandi-Malaspina, Verrett, Tucker, Merrill, Ghiaurov, Talvela
Kabaivanska, Verrett, Tucker, Merrill, Tozzi, Talvela
After which a last efficiency on 19 November performed by George Schick as a substitute of Abbado:
Kabaivanska, Verrett, Tucker, Sereni, Giaiotti, Talvela
A short time after these Met performances, Abbado performed his first La Scala Don Carlo for the Opening Evening of the 1968-69 season with a number of of his Met singers: Orlandi-Malaspina, Cossotto, Prevedi, Cappuccilli, Ghiaurov, Talvela in a manufacturing by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. So, have been the Met exhibits his first-ever encounter with Don Carlo?
After two extra performances as Carlo, Prevedi would even be gone from the Met for good. Talvela made his Met debut because the Grand Inquisitor within the earlier efficiency. Within the midst of the Verdi run he’d additionally seem as Hunding within the premiere of Herbert von Karajan’s Die Walküre. Ghiaurov sang Filippo twice throughout his first Met season of 1965-66, whereas Merrill was within the forged of the manufacturing’s premiere in 1950, the opening of Bing’s tenure.
The Abbado performances have been Tucci’s first Met Elisabettas, although she’d carry out the function once more in the summertime of 1972. This Eboli was Cossotto’s solely efficiency that season.
Verdi: Don Carlo
Elisabetta: Gabriella Tucci
Princess Eboli: Fiorenza Cossotto
Tebaldo: Judith Forst
Celestial Voice: Margaret Kalil
Don Carlo: Bruno Prevedi
Rodrigo: Robert Merrill
Philip II: Nicolai Ghiaurov
Grand Inquisitor: Martti Talvela
Friar: Paul Plishka
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Metropolitan Opera
12 October 1968
In-house recording
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