Title: This is a fun performance, but there is a better one ... where is it?
Product review: All the complimentary remarks about this performance are appropriate. There is, however, a more delightful performance with virtually the same cast, recorded New Year's Eve 1977, which may be the first year this production was used. It was, amazingly, broadcast on a local TV Station ... twice. The first run-through had a slight glitch in the sound. The second time through, the glitch was corrected. I was fortunate to videotape it but, alas, I taped the first performance. Even with the glitch, I wouldn't part with it. The only major personnel difference in the earlier performance was the conductor, Zubin Mehta. The Overture is truncated but the performance is complete and includes the balloons and confetti (it was New Year's Eve)at the end. Visually, the major change is that all of the singers had gained ten to twenty pounds.Yes this commercial release is a delight ... but.
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