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Puccini: Tosco (Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli; chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Rome, conducted by Oliviero de Fabritis; Victor Treasury series, 4 sides LP). Puccini's fieriest, reissued in the fine, robust performance that was a pre-LP highlight. Recording: good...
Puccini: Tosco (Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Reale of Rome, Oliviero de Fabritiis conducting, with Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 28 sides). Puccini's great operatic melodrama recorded complete by as lusty a group of Italian songbirds as can be found today...
...Italian-style tenors have always been a scarce commodity, and for the past two decades they have been growing scarcer & scarcer. Opera impresarios count on the fingers of one hand (Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Borgioli, Schipa . . .) the lusty high-voiced Latins still capable of raising even moderate-sized rafters on either side of the Atlantic. Since the death of Enrico Caruso (1921), tenor departments of U. S. opera-houses have shown a steady decline. Today their audiences count it a privilege to hear their "Ridi Pagliaccios" and "La donna e mobiles" sung by anything bigger than a microphone voice...
...next season, probably his last, Manager Gatti has engaged a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, to replace Tullio Serafin. There will be six new singers: Tenor Dino Borgioli, German Soprano Anny Konetzni, U. S. Contraltos Kathryn Meisle and Myrtle Leonard, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson and Mary Elisabeth Moore. All but pretty little Mary Moore have had operatic experience. With a record of only one public performance (Baltimore. April 1933), she was engaged for five leading coloratura roles at the Metropolitan...
...Painting by Artist J. Campbell Phillips of Manhattan. *In addition to Pons, this year's stars include Sopranos Claudia Muzio, Maria Mueller, Queena Mario; Contralto Kathryn Meisle; Tenors Dino Borgioli, Francesco Merli, Mario Chamlee; Baritones Richard Bonelli, Friedrich Schorr, Alfredo Gandolfi; Basso Ezia Pinza...
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