Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin (not pictured) celebrates this evening’s beginning of the season at the Met with an opening night from the past: a 1967 performance of La traviata.

Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata

Metropolitan Opera
Fausto Cleva, conductor
18 September 1967
Opening Night

In-house recording

Violetta – Montserrat Caballé
Alfredo – Richard Tucker
Germont – Cornell MacNeil
Flora – Nancy Williams
Gastone – Charles Anthony
Baron Douphol – Robert Goodloe
Marquis d’Obigny – Gene Boucher
Dr. Grenvil – Louis Sgarro
Annina – Loretta Di Franco
Giuseppe – Lou Marcella
Gardener – Peter Sliker