Word: tebaldi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...near. A far cry, as they say, from Lincoln Center's State Theatre, where people sixteen rows back in the Orchestra shouted "Louder!" at Paul Schofield in King Lear. Cornell MacNeil stole the show in La Gioconda, and his duet with Franco Corelli brought down the house. Neither Renata Tebaldi nor Cesare Siepi were quite as brilliant, but the singing all around was fine. The Met is an avowed showcase for stars, and it was the stars who put over this museum piece...
...Plus Side. For their money they get the greatest roster of international talent in a longer season than any other opera house. Nowhere but at the Met, for almost any given performance, could two complete casts be mustered that would boast such operatic deities as Sopranos Renata Tebaldi and Leontyne Price, Tenors Richard Tucker and Franco Corelli, Baritones Robert Merrill and Tito Gobbi, Bassos Cesare Siepi and Nicolai Ghiaurov-not to mention a bevy of most attractive younger sopranos such as Anna Moffo, Teresa Stratas and Mirella Freni...
...problem was La Scala's season-ending production last week of a 147-year-old opera called Olympie, by Gasparo Spontini. It flopped, mainly because it lacked a singer of superstar rank. In the past, the company could dredge up any old potboiler, cast Callas or Tebaldi in the lead, and have a resounding success. But now Callas and Tebaldi are little more than memories in Italy. Along with the younger corps of fine singers, they have been lured away by bigger money and better working conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere. What is left is hardly satisfying...
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY Renata Tebaldi, D.F.A., Metropolitan Opera soprano...