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Dimitri Mitropolous conducted the 1958 recording of this work with its original premiere cast, led by Eleanor Steber and Nicolai Gedda. The second act opens with the Majordomo singing of "The Count and the Countess d'Albanie" and the baritone sings "I should never have been a doctor" as well as the waltz "Under the Willow tree." This work ends with the mezzo-soprano ordering all the mirrors covered after the canonical quintet "To leave, to break, to find, to keep," and in the first act that girl is told she doesn't know how to read Sophocles and then sings "Must the winter come so soon?" The third act ends with the contralto role, the Old (*) Baroness, silently rising after she learns her granddaughter's child will not be born. Ending with Erika alone after Anatol leaves with the title character, for 10 points, name this opera with a libretto by Giancarlo Menotti and music by Samuel Barber.
Dimitri Mitropolous conducted the 1958 recording of this work with its original premiere cast, led by Eleanor Steber and Nicolai Gedda.
Vanessa (Jha)