Other sources of this sound very compressed with little detail in the higher frequencies, this is the best source I've heard of this performance. (Yep, I know It's Grace Bumbry's picture instead of Shirley Verrett, too late to fix it now)
Wiener Staatsoper
October 25, 1970
Conductor - Horst Stein
Don Carlo - Franco Corelli
Filippo II - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Rodrigo - Eberhard Wächter
Elisabetta di Valois - Gundula Janowitz
Princess Eboli - Shirley Verrett
Grand Inquisitor - Martti Talvela
Friar - Tugomir Franc
Tebaldo - Edita Gruberova
Count of Lerma - Ewald Aichberger
A heavenly voice - Judith Blegen
00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
18:59 Act 1 Scene 2
1:01:16 Act 2 Scene 1
1:16:38 Act 2 Scene 2
1:32:36 Act 3 Scene 1
2:13:20 Act 3 Scene 2
2:30:02 Act 4
very enjoyable performance :)
Verrett is STUNNING - for me she even tops Bumbry here - her top notes are so secure and the middle and bottom so fiery! Corelli still in top form here. I heard him 5 years later but that was an on and off performance
Thanks 👍💯
That is not Shirley Verrett pictured above. It is Bimbry.
The photo of Eboli is Bumbry, not Verrett ( for sure)and don’t believe that is Talvela either, could be wrong but looks like Halversson ( spelling?) The singing is great of course.
Actually, that is Talvela in the last picture. He sang the Grand Inquisitor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin alongside Josef Greindl as Filippo II, James King as Don Carlo, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau as Rodrigo di Posa, Ivan Sardi as the Monk, Patricia Johnson as La Principessa d'Eboli, and Pilar Lorengar as Elisabetta di Valois. I also agree that the photo of Eboli is actually Grace Bumbry. Although, let's face it, it would have been great to have had Bumbry as Eboli singing alongside Janowitz as Elisabetta.
Ok. I said I am not sure about Talvela. And talking about “ ideal” cast, what about Lorengar and Bumbry? Nothing against this Vienna cast by the way.
@@jjlungdoc7472 That would be nice too. While we're at it, Rita Orlandi Malaspina would be an absolutely fine Elisabetta working off of Bumbry's Eboli.
Mistakes were made with Verrett, but this is Talvela, it's from the 1965 German broadcast
Funny.... I was thinking it looked a bit like Bryn Terfel! It isn't Bryn, obviously, but still.