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The 1950s may have been vaguely Golden-Age but this is a bronze-ish performance of Trovatore, and there are at least a half-dozen available sets that
This recording, from the BBC vaults, documents Renata Tebaldi’s Covent Garden debut (or, more specifically, the second night of her debut season), in later June,
Fanciulla is Puccini’s most sophisticated score. He had learned from the work of the French impressionist composers, and particularly Debussy, new things about texture, orchestration,
This Boheme has been a treasure since it was released almost 40 years ago, and this selection of highlights includes most of the high points.
This is a remarkable collection, covering studio recordings made between 1949 and 1969, which is to say from roughly the beginning to the end of
Recorded in 1971, when Tebaldi was just past her prime, this carefully selected group of Christmas and merely-gentle music is very low-key (in many ways)
This crude performance features two of the greatest singers of the 1950s at their most unimaginative. It could be argued that Mario del Monaco in
Forty-eight years have elapsed, and sopranos (Callas, Price, Caballé), tenors (Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti), and conductors (Levine, Mehta, Muti) have come and gone, but this set
During the 1950s and ’60s Renata Tebaldi epitomized the Italian soprano. Among her trademarks were her warmth and womanliness, her sincerity within each role that
What we’re presented with here is a complete Gioconda from 1964 in Philadelphia with Franco Corelli, Mary Curtis-Verna, Mignon Dunn, and Cesare Bardelli, and 71
