Word: renata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco stage such rarities as Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much holiday time in Salzburg and Bayreuth as in London and Paris...
...Renata Tebaldi (London). One of Italy's finest sopranos gives a stunning performance of one of grand opera's most famous airs, Ritorna vincitor, from Verdi's Aïda. The selection is released as part of a low-priced series...
...have a funny kind of voice, and often people don't like it the first time they hear it. One has to hear me more and more." After singing in the Italian operatic "sticks"-Parma, Florence, Rome-she finally got a chance at La Scala when leading Soprano Renata Tebaldi fell sick...
...Death Valley. The passengers themselves are just as varied e.g., a French girl (Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine-year-old boy. In the tradition of Frank Capra, who supplied the story for Scripter Charles Schnee, Westward the Women deploys its ample stock company and wealth of incident in a highly artificial pattern designed for a maximum of humor, pathos, action and romance. The result...
...event of the evening was the first U.S. appearance of Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, 28, as Aïda. Tall (5 ft. 10 in.) and expressive, Tebaldi made a big impression both physically and vocally. Her flexible and powerful voice, known in the U.S. only on records, brought down the house in her first-(Ritorna vincitor) and third-act (O patria mid) arias...