“IL TROVATORE : Verdi
Original Air Date: 03/13/1971
Cast: Mehta; Tucker, Arroyo, Verrett, Sereni, Michalski
Media: MOD Audio SID.17480319 Tags: Archive; 2017, Verdi
This is Verrett’s first Met Trovatore, and she is on fire. It remains one of her best parts and serves as her Met farewell in 1990.
Tucker and Arroyo have plenty to offer and Sereni’s limitations as Luna are only in comparison to Warren or Bastianini, not today’s rather pitiful crop of Verdi baritones.
This is Mehta’s final run at the Met and the non-broadcast marks his farewell after 6 seasons. I always rather enjoyed his work at the Met, but his NY Philharmonic and the Chicago Ring did not wow me. He continues to hold multiple prestigious posts. Though Maazel did better at the Philharmonic, Mehta is a better man of the theatre.”