In technical preparation for the Metropolitan Opera PBS telecast of Il Trovatore in 1989, portions of the Saturday matinee of January 21st were videotaped. The matinee cast for this "scratch tape" was somewhat different then the telecast, which had been taped the previous October. This performance had Aprile Millo, rather than Eva Marton, as Leonore and Fiorenza Cossotto, rather than Dolora Zajick, as Azucena. In this excerpt, never before shown publicly, Millo, Pavarotti and Milnes sing Di geloso amor sprezzato from Act One. James Levine conducts.
This is unfortunate (Milnes is far from his best here ), too bad Zancanaro or Salvadori weren't available.
Operafiend22 4 months ago
WOW MILLO PAVAROTTI MILNES
tenorisimo1975 8 months ago