Word: cetra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city which has been death on opera companies for years. Hundreds of ear-hardened operagoers surge around stage doors just for a glimpse of her. Thousands of others have snapped up tens of thousands of the 13 full-length opera recordings that she has made for Italy's Cetra. Britain's E.M.I, (the Angel label...
Until recently the only adequate recording of Turandot was the Cetra set which featured the electrifying singing of Gina Cigna as Turandot and the haunting Calaf of Giulio Masini. Now London has issued a beautifully recorded version that is one of their most satisfactory operatic sets. The taxing role of Turandot finds Inge Borkh lacking in the most dramatic moments, but her voice in the lyrical passages is ravishing. Renata Tebaldi has too heavy a soprano for the role of Liu, but she gives a more sustained performance than has been her wont of late. As the Calaf, Mario...
...canny husband-and-wife team, but there is nothing sleepy-eyed about Dario and Doric Soria. Rome-born Dario Soria got into the record business more or less as a hobby while he was working as a radio director at CBS, and started to bring Italy's lively Cetra opera recordings to the U.S. as a sideline. The sideline grew into a busy firm (Cetra-Soria), which five years later Soria sold to Capitol in a deal that reportedly involved $1 million. In 1953 Britain's giant Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., whose position in Europe is comparable...
...record companies are doing their best to make it a grand-opera Christmas. With Victor, Columbia and Cetra-Soria setting the pace, the industry has released more than half a dozen full-length operas, nearly a score of recorded excerpts. Among the most important...
Puccini: La Bohème (Rosanna Carteri, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Taddei; Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin, conducted by Gabriele Santini; Cetra-Soria). The singers give an appealing account of life in their drafty garret, but are vocally outclassed by others who have recorded the popular opera...