Above: Elizabeth Bainbridge
A performance of Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA in 1975 was televised live.
Watch and listen here.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Riccardo - Plácido Domingo; Renato - Piero Cappuccilli; Amelia - Katia Ricciarelli ; Ulrica - Elizabeth Bainbridge; Oscar - Reri Grist; Silvano - William Elvin; Samuele - Gwynne Howell; Tom - Paul Hudson
Placido Domingo and Reri Grist were in my first-ever BALLO at The Met in 1970. And Ms. Bainbridge is a grand, Olde School English contralto Ulrica.