On disc and in person, but never so triumphant a final fugue as von Dohnanyi conducted at the Met in 1972–and I was there! I’m going to listen again to the broadcast right now. As Tebaldi, Resnik, Peters, Grillo, Gobbi, Alva, Paskalis, et. al. tell us with such exaltation, “Man is born to be a clown!”
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