Word: jussi
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...Domingo at 29 is virile evidence that believability and passion are not necessarily inconsistent with operatic love. He has the sweetest and one of the biggest lyric-dramatic tenor voices on the operatic stage, and he phrases his serenades with a taste and elegance unmatched since the days of Jussi Bjorling. As an actor, he is manly, confident and capable of the kind of tender gestures that can thrill girls on both sides of the footlights. Four years ago, in a New York City Opera Traviata, Domingo inspired audible sobs all over the house when he carried the dying Violetta...
Once in a generation there appears an artist who by virtue of voice and temperament seems to symbolize an entire school of singing. Today, Birgit Nilsson is the archetypal Wagnerian Soprano, just as Jussi Bjoerling was the ultimate Italian Tenor during the 1940s and '50s. Both are Swedish, proving that national style has nothing to do with nationality. Since the death of Leonard Warren in 1960, no one man has been acknowledged by critics and conductors as the quintessential Italian Baritone. Now, though, there may be a legitimate claimant to the title. Like Warren and Lawrence Tibbett before...
...performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 on Feb. 20, 1936, at which Rudolf Serkin made his New York debut, and one of the most celebrated underground Toscanini recordings of all-the 1940 version of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which has better soloists (Zinka Milanov, Jussi Bjoerling, both in their prime) and a more powerful style than the 1953 recording now available...