Here is the young Sherrill Milnes in 1968 singing Miller's aria and cabaletta from Verdi's Luisa Miller. After this, we hear the final two minutes of Act 1, with Tozzi, Tucker, Caballe, Milnes. Please leave your comments!

 

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Ed

This great performance was given in Caracas in June of 1972. Tucker was 60, and Olivero was two or three years older than that!! They sing with the greatest passion imaginable, as they sound like the young lovers they are in the opera. This is the only time these two greats sang together.

This great performance was given in Caracas in June of 1972. Tucker was 60, and Olivero was two or three years older than that!! They sing with the greatest passion imaginable, as they sound like the young lovers they are in the opera. This is the only time these two greats sang together.

This historic performance was never broadcast. It is a wonderful, stereo house tape that Richard Tucker gave to me the day after he returned from Caracas.