Word: valdengo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Marriage of Figaro, with Siepi, De los Angeles, Valdengo, Conner...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Valdengo...
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Richard Tucker, tenor; Lucine Amara, soprano; Giuseppe Valdengo, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). More proof that Met performances are usually better to listen to than to look at-and that Richard Tucker is one of the notable tenors...
...preparation, drilling his singers until they were ready to drop, illustrating passages by pushing his,hoarse old voice up into squeaky soprano register and down into roaring baritone range as well. At drill's end each day he dismissed a thoroughly exhausted cast -including Metropolitan Opera Baritones Giuseppe Valdengo (Falstaff) and Frank Guarrera (Ford), Contralto Cloe Elmo (Dame Quickly), Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman (Mistress Page) and Soprano Herva Nelli (Mistress Ford). But as they dragged themselves home, the inexhaustible maestro, 40 years the senior of the eldest of them, tramped out with a fresh and fearsome eye to rehearse...