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Composer Giuseppe Verdi, who discovered Egypt some 80 years ahead of Hollywood, set the yarn to some of the finest music ever to come out of Italy. Director Clemente Fracassi has put it in the mouths of Top Singers Renata Tebaldi, Ebe Stignani and Giuseppe Campora (with supporting singers from La Scala and the Rome Opera). He has had his visible actors synchronize their lips and slow-motion movements with the music. Unfortunately, his $3,000,000 budget apparently made no allowances for up-to-date recording equipment. Too often Aida rasps and burbles as though it were being played...
...voice ranged from flutely pianissimos that penetrated to the last row of the distant balcony to mezzo-fortes of melting sweetness to fortes of trumpeting and often edgy fierceness. She may not have the most beautiful voice in the world (a credit often reserved for Italy's Renata Tebaldi or the Metropolitan Opera's Zinka Milanov), but she is certainly the most exciting singer...
...Francisco stage such rarities as Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much holiday time in Salzburg and Bayreuth as in London and Paris...
...Renata Tebaldi (London). One of Italy's finest sopranos gives a stunning performance of one of grand opera's most famous airs, Ritorna vincitor, from Verdi's Aïda. The selection is released as part of a low-priced series...
...funny kind of voice, and often people don't like it the first time they hear it. One has to hear me more and more." After singing in the Italian operatic "sticks"-Parma, Florence, Rome-she finally got a chance at La Scala when leading Soprano Renata Tebaldi fell sick...