This upgraded sound and video quality are wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this.

1:08.45 is a “ Callasian” acting moment for Bumbry. What a talent!

Thankyou i love these old met productions

@peteradaniel

4 ай бұрын

This is just the previous production. I saw Ildiko Komlosi sing Santuzza in this production only ten years ago.

I did not realize they did telecasts in 1974

@nir0bateman

4 ай бұрын

They didn't, it was never aired, but as someone else commented here, it's likely an experiment

I doubt they would have telecast a performance with a non-star Turriddu, but the Met wisely knew they had better try out live taping that would be on a higher level than previous attempts. Of course they finally did an actual telecast with the 1977 La Boheme. Thanks for this interesting video. A big problem back then was lighting at a level that worked both for the audience and for TV.

G;day to you, a big thank you for this!

Some pretty good singing from Bumbry.

@Ernie1

4 ай бұрын

The voice is seamless from bottom to top. It's a lot of big singing but she seems tireless. Brava!

Se ve re oscuro

Thanks could you put the segments from Pagliaxci on if possible? Wasn't it bernstein conducting,?

@nir0bateman

4 ай бұрын

I can only find this bit: kzread.info/dash/bejne/houLt7aAZavRoKQ.html

@prompterbox

4 ай бұрын

That's all there is. Bernstein never conducted Pág.

Bumbry is an insincere actress but she knows how to sing this music and sounds very good.

@BellaFirenze

4 ай бұрын

???

@tamerlano

4 ай бұрын

@@BellaFirenze she's not convincing as an actress to my eyeballs

@jjlungdoc7472

4 ай бұрын

To me she is a very sincere and effective actress. Both opinions are deeply subjective.

@shirleyrombough8173

4 ай бұрын

Grace Bumbry was not an insincere actor. Her voice and her acting were outstanding.

Once upon a time when the Met was the greatest opera house in the world. Not anymore thanks to the woke fool Gelb....

@jjlungdoc7472

4 ай бұрын

I could not say it better. Pity the Met!

@Malcolm-bh6ky

4 ай бұрын

Peter gelb ruin the met with a mature productions that would be seen on Broadway I remover the good old days T old opera house with the great richard tucker and tebaldi

@jjlungdoc7472

4 ай бұрын

@@Malcolm-bh6kyagree. Case in point: why bringing a Broadway superstar such as Kelli O’Hara to the Met while leaving out from the Met so many operatic superstars ? The Broadway crowd will never move to the Met and the Met crowd will never buy into it. Horrible.

@rugby8-Philadelphia

3 ай бұрын

@@jjlungdoc7472 Did you see Kelli? She was excellent. And, yes, her being in it did sell tickets that wouldn't otherwise have been sold

@rugby8-Philadelphia

3 ай бұрын

What a silly statement. How has "woke" ruined the Met? 😁😁😁