Word: renata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown clips from an Elvis Presley movie. Estimated audience for the Tosca scene: 40 million -enough to keep Manhattan's Met filled for almost 20 years. Sullivan's deal with the Met calls for four more operatic scenes starring such performers as Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi and Dorothy Kirsten. Said he: "We certainly have no plans to change our opera dates. This was just the shot in the arm our show needed because you can always put on the Rosemary Clooneys, the Julius La Rosas and the acrobats...
...sometimes called the Metropolitan Museum of Opera: it presented Verdi's nearly forgotten Ernani. Unofficial reason for the revival: to provide a spectacular assignment for the Met's own longtime exhibit, Soprano Zinka Milanov, who has been buffeted by the triumphs of Italy's Renata Tebaldi and Maria Meneghini Callas. But the combination of early Verdi and late Milanov was simply painful...
Someone Possessed. Maria Callas was still fat and half sick. She was inclined to break out in rashes and blotches; she was often feverish; her legs became painfully swollen. She took her resentments out on the people around her. Her first victim was another soprano, Renata Tebaldi, long-standing favorite of Scala audiences, possessor of a voice of creamy softness, musicianship of delicate sensibility, and a temperament to match. She was no match for Callas. From the beginning the two women glowered. Tebaldi stayed away from Callas' performances; Callas, on the warpath, sat in a prominent box at Tebaldi...
...tapped for the San Francisco engagement sound unheard, after Director Adler scheduled Francesca, then learned that his star soprano (Renata Tebaldi) would be unable to take the role after all. San Francisco listeners found the old (1914) opera dull and static in spite of its lush arias, but Soprano Gencer was something to hear. Her voice is big, warm and beautiful, and capable of surging emotional power. The U.S. will be hearing more...
...Among them: Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Mario del Monaco, Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni...