Word: tozzi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opera Company (NBC, 2-3:40 p.m.). Giorgio Tozzi, Phyllis Curtin, Frank Porretta and Richard Torigi in Italo Montemezzi's The Love of Three Kings. Repeat...
Verdi: Aïda (Leontyne Price, Rita Gorr, Jon Vickers, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Georg Solti conducting; RCA Victor, three LPs). Soprano Price's tigerish passion and luminous voice discover a moving Aïda-and cleave through the massed choral and orchestral sound unfalteringly...
Opera (NBC, 2:30-4:30 p.m.). Season debut of the well-regarded NBC Opera Company in Boris Godunov, starring Giorgio Tozzi...
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, Tenor Cesare Va-letti, Bass Giorgio Tozzi; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Berlioz' "symphony with chorus" is given a soaring, beautifully proportioned reading by Munch, and all three soloists contribute performances that are almost without flaw. As satisfactory a performance as the work is likely to find...
Even opera was better than that, and Tozzi went to Italy to study. With the help of his teacher, he changed from baritone to bass, a decision he never regretted, although in basso roles he rarely gets the rafter-ringing aria or the girl. He admits to some annoyance when a tenor or soprano "who has been singing lousily all evening gets up there and hits a high note and brings the house down." But on balance, he will stick with the kings, priests, inquisitors and assassins who fall to the basso's lot. Being the villain, he finds...