As our Trove Thursday creator Chris Corwin takes a well-deserved week off, La Cieca brings you one from the vaults. Literally: it’s a series of Unnatural Acts of Opera podcasts featuring Lucrezia Borgia, in Montserrat Caballé’s star-is-born New York debut performance at Carnegie Hall.

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia – Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro – Alain Vanzo
Maffio Orsini – Jane Berbie
Don Alfonso – Kostas Paskalis
Jacopo Liveretto – Jerold Siena
Don Apostolo Gazella – Vern Shinall
Ascanio Petrucci – William Wiederanders
Oloferno Vitellozzo – L.D. Clements
Gubetta – Adib Fazah
Rustighello – Mauro Lampi
Astolfo – Arnold Voketatis

American Opera Society, New York
Jonel Perlea, conductor
April 20, 1965