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Director Francesco Siciliani had combed through the composer's entire output to find six representative operas. He chose Armida (composed in 1817), Il Conte Ory (1828), Tancredi (1813), La Scala di Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...
Verdi: La Forza del Destine (Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Galliano Masini, tenor; Tancredi Pasero, bass; Carlo Tagliabue, baritone, and others with the EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Gino Marinuzzi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 36 sides). Some of the singers made Verdi's less worthy opera sound far better than the Aïda. Recording: good...
...Gioconda, substituted for Norma because of the illness of Rosa Fonselle, Basso Tancredi Pasero had excellent 'Opportunity as the prisoner-husband Alvise to prove himself a notable singing-actor...