Renata Tebaldi: A Portrait

Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Jussi Björling (Rodolfo), Eugene Tobin (Cavaradossi), George London (Scarpia), Sung by Louis Quilico, Louis Quilico (Michele), Ermanno Mauro, Lillian Sukis (Young Lovers), Louis Quilico (Scarpia)

CBC Festival Orchestra, Ernesto Barbini

Catalogue No: DVDVAI4324
Label: VAI

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Puccini: O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème)

1956
Jussi Björling (Rodolfo), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)

1959
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Con onor muore (from Madama Butterfly)

1959
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Cilea: Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

1961
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Tosca: excerpts from Act One

1961
Eugene Tobin (Cavaradossi), George London (Scarpia), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)

1961
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete o mamma

1967
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Ponchielli: Suicidio! (from La Gioconda)

1967
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)

1961
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Con onor muore (from Madama Butterfly)

1961
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Tosti: L'ultima canzone

Sung by Louis Quilico, Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Mascagni: Le Maschere: Overture

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
CBC Festival Orchestra
Ernesto Barbini

Rossini: La regata veneziana

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Nulla! Silenzio (from Il Tabarro)

Louis Quilico (Michele), Ermanno Mauro, Lillian Sukis (Young Lovers), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

Puccini: Tosca: Act II Finale

Louis Quilico (Scarpia), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)

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Renata Tebaldi’s numerous appearances on television made her unique among her contemporaries. Four complete operatic performances as well as televised concerts and guest appearances on major variety programs in the U.S. and abroad have made their way to home video. The soprano’s glowing physical presence made her a natural for the TV cameras while the sumptuousness of her voice asserted itself through even the flimsiest of television speakers.

Tebaldi made three appearances on the Bell Telephone Hour between 1959 and 1967. As collected here, the six arias demonstrate the soprano at the height of her powers in five of her greatest roles. (Though Tebaldi never performed Cavalleria Rusticana on stage, she did make a stunning studio recording of the opera.) The two Butterfly arias from 1959, radiantly sung, are amongst Tebaldi’s first TV appearances, taken from a program that also holds the distinction of being one of the earliest extant color telecasts. By 1967, Tebaldi was clearly comfortable in the spinto-dramatic repertoire with an awesome use of the chest register in the Cavalleria and Gioconda arias. This collection will delight the myriad fans of one of this century’s most beloved divas.

Renata Tebaldi: A Portrait

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