La Cieca assumes, or at least hopes, such an encounter is currently taking place on some other plane. In slightly more mundane terms, though, Mike Richter did “meet” Claudio Abbado, though not in the context of his celebrated CD-ROM series.

Here’s a salute to a side project of Mike’s, the mastering and release of selected video performances of opera that for whatever reasons had never been made available commercially. Among these discs, distributed by Image Mogul, is a document of one of the greatest projects in Abbado’s career, a lavish revival of Verdi’s Don Carlo at La Scala during the 1977-1978 season.

Verdi: Don Carlo
Teatro Alla Scala Milano – 7 January 1978

Placido Domingo (Carlo)
Margaret Price (Elisabetta)
Yevgeny Nesterenko (Filippo)
Elena Obraztsova (Eboli)
Renato Bruson (Posa)

Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Director: Luca Ronconi

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