“NABUCCO : Verdi
Original Air Date: 12/03/1960
Cast: Schippers; MacNeil, Rysanek, Siepi, Fernandi
Media: MOD Audio SID.17520318 Tags: Archive; 2017, Verdi
MacNeil and Siepi are both excellent in the Met’s first Nabucco production. Rysanek gives her all, but really not the right match of voice and role for her.
One does not hear the lead male roles sung like this anymore.
This performance has also been reissued in the Met’s Verdi bicentennial CD box. In fact, this broadcast from a single season was Nabucco’s only presence in the Met repertoire until early 2000.”