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...kind of La Scala West. Under Carol Fox, its late founder and general manager, Maria Callas made her American debut in a sizzling Norma, and the Lyric became home to such 1950s and '60s legends as Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Baritone Tito Gobbi. By 1980, though, economic troubles had put the company $300,000 in the red, and Fox was forced to resign...
DIED. Tito Gobbi, 70, Italian baritone considered one of the finest singing actors of his generation, best known for such operatic roles as the sinister Scarpia in Tosca, lago in Otello, and the title character in Rigoletto; of cancer; in Rome...
...regular 1971-72 season ended last week with an extravagant, five-hour operatic gala (top price: $100) arranged, directed and virtually orchestrated and choreographed by Bing himself. On hand were 43 superstars (among them Nilsson, Price, Sutherland, Siepi, Gobbi, Milnes and Domingo) to demonstrate the kind of singing talent brought to the Met during the Bing regime. This was as it should be, for Bing has always concentrated more on big-name singers than on first-rate conductors or enlightened repertory. An hour of highlights from the gala will be broadcast over CBS-TV on Sunday, April 30. On June...
...origin of her reputation as one of the finest dramatic sopranos in opera history. Her voice then had an almost unbelievable poignancy and precision, reinforced by an intelligence that makes most other singers' version of the mad scene seem like inane twittering. Tenor Giuseppi Di Stefano, Baritone Tito Gobbi and Conductor Tullio Serafin provide rousingly good support...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Opera: Two to Six" starts with a Tosca duet by Joan Sutherland and Tito Gobbi, grows into the trio from Faust, the Verdi quartet from Rigolctlo, a Wagner quintet from Die Meistersinger, and finally the sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammcrmoor, in which the two are joined by Nicolai Gedda, Jerome Mines, Mildred Miller and Charles Anthony...