“TOSCA : Puccini
Original Air Date: 02/15/1969
Cast: Schick; Nilsson, Domingo, Dooley
Media: SID.18390315 Tags: Archive; 2018, Nilsson, Domingo, Puccini
This is Domingo’s Met broadcast debut. I prefer Nilsson five years earlier in a Met broadcast from Boston with Corelli and George London (interestingly also with Schick). Nilsson’s a great singer, but I am not a big fan of her Tosca (she had premiered a new production five months earlier than this broadcast with Corelli and Bacquier.)
This is Nilsson’s first Met performance with Domingo; their total remaining Met are three Turandots culminating in the broadcast the following season. This is her second and last Met Tosca broadcast—her earlier one in 1964 was from Boston with Corelli, and has not been on Sirius. She premiered the 1968 production with Corelli the fall before this broadcast with Bacquier.”