SIMON BOCCANEGRA:Verdi
Original Air Date: 04/02/1960
Mitropoulos; Guarrera, Milanov, Bergonzi, Tozzi, Flagello
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This is the production that premiered with Warren a month earlier and he died the week following the premiere onstage in Forza. Guarrera who was not intended by nature as Simon does a fine job of characterization. Flagello is the most splendid Paolo you’ll ever hear, and this is Bergonzi’s only round of Gabrieles. This is Mitropoulos’ penultimate broadcast, Butterfly coming two weeks later. What great work came from his hand in the late 1950s.
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