Renata Tebaldi as Tosca, 1955, 1958

Published: Dec. 23, 2009, 5:20 a.m.

\xa0\xa0\xa0 Highlights from a glorious 1955 Covent Garden Tosca with Renata Tebaldi in fabulous voice (I saw about 5 of them at the Met in that period and I never recuperated). I forgot how gorgeous Ferruccio Tagliavini's voice was and of course the great Scarpia of Tito Gobbi is legendary. The conductor is Francesco Molinari-Pradelli.

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\xa0This is followed by some act two scenes from Brussels, 1958 w.Ettore Bastianini and Giuseppe Di Stefano.(HEY! The "Vittoria is GREAT!!")

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\xa0 P.S. Why do those Englishmen/ladies not applaud the tenor arias?\xa0\xa0 Corelli would have screamed at them!