Many thanks for the additional information, Rob; we are indebted to a recent Amazon review by Stanley Kohl for the following:
"This review is of Gala's CD, GL 100.789, of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, supposedly with Maria Caniglia, Galliano Masini and Carlo Tagliabue, conducted by Gino Marinuzzi. As noted in other reviews, the performance is actually the 22 November 1947 Metropolitan Opera broadcast with Daniza Ilitsch, Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Giuseppe Antonicelli. I doubt that Gala was trying to disguise the performance; the mix-up is likely from the LP set that appeared in the early 1950s from Classic Editions, CE 5001, which I believe listed the same wrong cast. I encountered that set at a public library, a shredded copy by 1969, and so was happy to find this memento of it. Whether taken from the old LP set or not, the sound isn't too bad. The performance is good, and also available on Walhall Eternity Series WLCD 0054 (from Amazon, see ASIN : B0003021LS) possibly in slightly better sound and with the correct cast listing. Walhall's edition comes in a slimmer CD case, but without any information other than the cast and a track list having no timings. Gala's edition is in a double-wide case, providing space for a nice booklet with timings for the tracks and information on Caniglia, Masini, Tagliabue and Marinuzzi, who are actually present on the "bonus tracks" taken from the Cetra recording of La Forza del Destino, recorded in 1941. So the CD from Gala is fine, for those who know what is actually on it."
Presumably the first LP edition was withdrawn because Classic Editions were embarrassed by having appended the wrong cast list?
You have piqued ny interest so I have in fact just bought the very cheap Walhall issue, especially as I am unfamilar with the lead soprano but like the other leading cast members. Maybe I'll review it!
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