Word: ruggero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verdi: Aida (RCA, 3 LPs; $17.98). Erich Leinsdorf's conducting recalls the dramatic sweep of Toscanini. Gorgeous sound from the London Symphony Orchestra, with Leontyne Price at her recent best in the title role, and Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry and Ruggero Raimondi at their all-time grandest in support...
...Carlo-better known to history as the Emperor Charles V-Sherrill Milnes affirmed his pre-eminent position among American baritones, singing with truly empyreal grace and a voice that opened on many intriguing corridors of power. In a spectacular Met debut in the role of the aging Silva, Ruggero Raimondi, 28, strode the stage as if born to gray hair and villainy. A native of Bologna, Raimondi has been singing opera for only five years but his clean, coppery voice already suggests the younger Ezio Pinza...