Renata Tebaldi: The Early Years

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Release Date: 10th Jul 2015
Catalogue No: ELQ4820286
Label: Eloquence
Length: 77 minutes

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Verdi: Aida / Act 1

Work length5:50

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

"Ritorna vincitor!"

Track length5:50

Verdi: Il Trovatore / Act 1

Work length3:56

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

"Tacea la notte!"

Track length3:56

Gounod: Faust / Act 3

Work length8:54

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Come vorrei saper..C'era un re..Ah! E'strano poter

Track length8:54

Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2

Work length4:53

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

"Un bel dì vedremo"

Track length4:53

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2

Work length2:44

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

In quelle trine morbide

Track length2:44

Puccini: Tosca / Act 2

Work length3:30

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1949-11
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

"Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"

Track length3:30

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2

Work length3:45

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Porgi amor"

Track length3:45

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 3

Work length6:08

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"E Susanna non vien!...Dove sono i bei momenti"

Track length6:08

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 1

Work length3:31

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Ecco, respiro appena...Io son' l'umile ancella"

Track length3:31

Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 4

Work length3:13

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Poveri fiori, gemme de'prati"

Track length3:13

Catalani: La Wally, Drama lirica in quattro atti / Act 3

Work length3:33

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Nè mai dunque avrò pace?"

Track length3:33

Mascagni: Lodoletta - Opera in 3 Acts / Act 3

Work length4:29

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Ah! Il suo nome...Flammen, perdonami"

Track length4:29

Rossini: William Tell - Italian version / Act 2

Work length8:02

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"S'allontanano alfin!....Selva opaca"

Track length8:02

Refice: Cecilia - opera / Prologue

Work length7:38

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Per l'amor di Gesù" - (L'Annunzio)

Track length7:38

Refice: Cecilia - opera / Act 3

Work length7:27

Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Alberto Erede
Recorded: 1955-07
Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome

"Grazie sorelle"

Track length7:27

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In May 1946, when Milan’s venerable La Scala theatre reopened after World War II, conductor Arturo Toscanini selected Renata Tebaldi, then 24, to sing music by Rossini and Verdi for that watershed concert. ‘Ah, la voce d’angelo’ – the voice of an angel – was Toscanini’s reported verdict, In her heyday, she was known as ‘La Superba’. At the Metropolitan Opera, where she was utterly adored, she was, less poetically, ‘Miss Sold-Out’. Her stage career lasted some three decades, and she retired in 1976 at the comparatively early age of 54.

The items on the 1949 recital were first issued by Decca on 78rpm, later collected on LP. The 1955 recital was issued on two ten-inch discs in February and May 1956, then issued collectively on an LP in November 1958.

Giulietta Simionato, the great mezzo-soprano, commented, ‘Hers was a voice we shall never hear again and none shall ever equal – and all thanks to Decca’, the record label with which she had an almost exclusive relationship. Her first studio recordings (tracks 1–6 here) were made in Geneva near the end of 1949. These were released on 78 rpm, and then on a long-playing record. Her first recordings of complete operas came in 1951, with Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème. Her conductor, for all of these sessions, was Alberto Erede, who, although only thirteen years older than Tebaldi, was experienced on the international scene. These signature roles, which also included Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, were recorded twice (the second time in stereo), with little or no deterioration in her voice. The studio recitals from 1949 and 1955 are particularly valuable for their inclusion of arias from operas that Tebaldi never recorded in their entirety (Faust, Le nozze di Figaro, Lodoletta, Guglielmo Tell and Cecilia), although she sang all of these roles on stage.

Those who heard Tebaldi live remarked that her studio recordings did not do her full justice, but they were best-sellers for Decca, and continue to remain artistically and commercially viable today.

Renata Tebaldi: The Early Years

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