Karita Mattila braves the night in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades. Leontyne Price has a clandestine midnight rendezvous with Carlo Bergonzi in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
At the Midnight Hour
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“Midnight will soon strike” from The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Karita Mattila, soprano; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Yutaka Sado, conductor
(London 2000. ERATO 8573‐85785‐2)
“Act II…Prelude…Ma dall’arido stelo divulsa…Teco io sto” from Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi
Leontyne Price, soprano; Carlo Bergonzi, tenor; RCA Italiana Orchestra; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
(Rome 1966)