G.Verdi "LA FORZA DEL DESTINO"MET, 1/29/72, Price, Bergonzi, Sereni, Flagello,Corena, Forst, Veltri

Giuseppe Verdi
La Forza del Destino
Metropolitan Opera
January 29th, 1972
Leonora: Leontyne Price
Don Alvaro: Carlo Bergonzi
Don Carlos: Mario Sereni
Padre Guardiano: Ezio Flagello
Fra Melitone: Fernando Corena
Preziosilla: Judith Forst
Marquis de Caltrava: Edmond Karlsrud
Cura: Carlotta Ordassy
Trabuco: Robert Schmorr
Surgeon: Raymond Gibbs
Conductor: Michelangelo Veltri
Orchestra and Chorus Metropolitan Opera

[@jackhamm1745]

I just love this! Two of the finest Verdi singers ever in Price and Bergonzi, who is in especially fine form here! Ah! this was back in the days when the Met was "the Met!" Thank you for sharing!!!

[@purpletc1]

Thank you so much for the 2 Met Forzas

[@allanrizzetti1449]

Thank you very much my friend.

[@promptersbox]

Glad to make you happy!

[@liedersanger1]

The Marquis was sung by Edmond Karlrud on this occasion.

[@promptersbox]

You're right. I'll fix that. Thanks!

[@Toscarpia]

Nice recording ! YET the whole 'Spanish Inn' scene (Act 2, scene 1) is missing, as usually at the Met in those years, and so from it Preziosilla's entrance and first 'war' aria... Then I can't find the "Rataplan", which is sometimes moved - along with the whole lighter section of Act 3 - from the end of that act to the middle of it, right after Carlo's cabaletta... but if this Rataplan is omitted here, what on earth is the character of Preziosilla here for ???

[@promptersbox]

I don’t know if it was performed or cut on this tape. The Bing massacre of this piece is just astonishing.

[@Toscarpia]

@@promptersbox It is indeed !

[@Thearchivebeyondimagination]

probably typical met cuts during this era

[@dr.keithheimann3963]

Great performance -- but Veltri doesn't seem in control of the orchestra.