Il Trovatore - Rare excerpts from Met "Scratch Tape" #4

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 sings the Miserere and the duet Mira, d'acerbe lagrime with Sherrill Milnes. James Levine conducts.

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• Metropolitan Opera
• Millo
• Levine
• Il Trovatore
• Met telecasts
• Pavarotti
• Milnes
• Cossotto live music opera

[Callas999]

Bravo Aprile!!!! You are a real Verdi voice with real Verdi singing!!!! And we don't have many like you

GREAT VOICE +GREAT SINGING!!!!

[A7sogno]

I disagree. Go to the score and look at the markings. You go to all Millo videos to say it is slow. You are incorrect.

[ezayi]

There´s one thing about Aprile that I didn´t like and that was, she dragged the tempo or was many times behind it. The rest is just perfect.

[ezayi]

She was fabulous. Sherill was singing terrible and he wasn´t old.

[tenorisimo1975]

Brava Brava Brava Miss Millo.



[DrFernandoBicudo]

Absolutely, THE BEST!!!