Word: campora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choral effects still showed the clear influences of Verdi, Meyerbeer and-particularly-Gounod, whom Bizet considered his master (one 12-bar passage is note-for-note from Gounod's Faust). But under the expert leadership of Conductor Laszlo Halasz, and with a fine lead performance from Tenor Giuseppe Campora, the opera emerged at least in parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria in Act I familiar to Caruso fans ("Je crois entendre encore...