Word: tagliavini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...
Puccini: La Bohème (Rosanna Carteri, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Taddei; Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin, conducted by Gabriele Santini; Cetra-Soria). The singers give an appealing account of life in their drafty garret, but are vocally outclassed by others who have recorded the popular opera...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Tosca, with Kirsten, Tagliavini, Schoeffler...
...also, if he chooses, go to hear European artists who might never have crossed the Atlantic except for their record successes. London Records takes credit for popularizing Singers Kathleen Ferrier, Hilde Gueden, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Schoeffler; Pianists Clifford Curzon, Friedrich Gulda; Conductor Ernest Ansermet. Cloe Elmo, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo and Cesare Siepi were introduced to U.S. collectors by Cetra-Soria records before they were hired by the Metropolitan Opera...
...Tenors (Victor, 2 sides LP). A chance, though not an absolutely fair one, to compare tenors of the past and present. The two sides offer Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, James Melton, Jussi Bjoerling, Jan Peerce, Set Svanholm, Ferrucio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Lanza singing favorite arias. Lanza has as good a natural voice as any of them, but it begs for training...