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Walk in the Rain. Suddenly Sophia Loren was a star. Mouthing Verdi while Renata Tebaldi's voice was fed into the sound track, she became a voluptuous, musky Aïda. And in Gold of Naples, the picture that spread her reputation across continents and seas, she played a Neapolitan pizza vendor's wife whose wonderful, self-congratulating look seemed to say: "Look at me. I'm all woman, and it will be a long time before you see such a woman again." She took a long, unforgettable walk in the rain through the streets...
Following the Carteri incident, even veteran Soprano Renata Tebaldi lost her voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...
...stunning vocal technique that in the last three years has lifted her into the haughty company of the world's finest. Standing there beside her are five singers, whose achievement challenges the memory of some of opera's most hallowed names. The other five: Ma ria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Eileen Farrell, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price...
...RENATA TEBALDI, 39, is also singing less than she did several years ago, although not entirely by her own choice: when the Met announced that labor troubles last summer forced them to drop Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouweur, scheduled as a vehicle for Tebaldi, Italy's diva serena canceled her contract for the season. In the repertory she calls her own (Otello, Boheme, Tosca, Forza del Destino, Butterfly, Andrea Chenier) she still cannot be challenged for sheer lovely sound-a sound that when she is in proper form seems to lie in the center of the voice, with...
...dudgeon hitting high C, Soprano Renata Tebaldi scoffed at the suggestion that she was defecting from the Metropolitan Opera this season because of other commitments made during the Met's recent lengthy labor negotiations. Actual reason for her desertion, charged the prima donna, was that the Met management had shamelessly violated a promise "of many years" by scratching its scheduled revival of a Tebaldi favorite, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur...