In this episode, Alfred Hubay talks about the 1957-1958 season of the Metropolitan Opera including a new production of Madama Butterfly with Antonietta Stella, Margaret Roggero, Eugenio Fernandi in his debut, directed by Yoshio Aoyama and conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos, the mother of Renata Tebaldi, the coaching of Ettore Verna and the emergence of his wife, Mary Curtis-Verna, Zinka Milanov’s first Desdemona and the debut of Inge Borkh. (Part 2 of 2).
(Recorded 26 January 2012)
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