W HAT AMERICAN OPERA has ever had as superb a cast album as Samuel Barber's Vanessa ? In the months following the work's Met world premiere, in January 1958, the great Dimitri Mitropoulos recorded the piece's fantastic initial quintet in New York-Eleanor Steber, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Nicolai Gedda and Giorgio Tozzi. The two tiny comprimario roles went to longtime Met regulars then at opposite ends of their careers-George Cehanovsky and Robert Nagy .
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