
I’d never heard of this recording or conductor–yet even knowing that the 1950s-era Remington Opera Series, of which this is a part, tended to be
This recording of Butterfly was Renata Tebaldi’s first (of two), made in 1951. To be sure, she’s in handsome voice. We are reminded of her
This studio recording bestows very little pleasure. Renata Tebaldi gives one of the most under-characterized readings of this sad little heroine ever offered by a