Toscanini sings “Morrò, ma prima in grazia“ / Eugenia Burzio vs Toscanini

DUELING DIVAS ~ Eugenia Burzio vs. Toscanini in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (Toscanini could never abide anybody at all taking a gram of attention away from him... Like somebody ever paid any attention to an old man with a stick when Eugenia Burzio was on stage!) At 3:50 ARTURO TOSCANINI sings “Morrò, ma prima in grazia“. This is from the rehearsals for the last complete opera Toscanini conducted (Un Ballo in Maschera), in January 1954, in Carnegie Hall, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra: