The Talk of the Town

A favorite Donizetti performance from Ortrud Jones

Leyla Gencer cussing out Shirley Verrett’s Elisabetta so convincingly the audience spontaneously breaks out in applause and bravas.

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Scott Grunow agrees: “Two titans.”

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