For this week’s blast from the past, Jungfer Marianne Leizmetzerin has unearthed an in-house tape featuring Met newbies Plácido Domingo and Montserrat Caballé singing Un ballo in maschera in 1970!

Giuseppe Verdi: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Metropolitan Opera
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor
02 October 1970

Riccardo – Plácido Domingo
Amelia – Montserrat Caballé
Renato – Robert Merrill
Ulrica – Ruza Baldani
Oscar – Reri Grist
Samuel – Paul Plishka
Tom – Andrij Dobriansky
Silvano – Raymond Gibbs
Judge – Paul Franke
Servant – Gabor Carelli