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Mozart: Requiem (Pia Tassinari, Ebe Stignani, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo; orchestra and chorus of the E.I.A.R., Victor de Sabata conducting; Cetra-Soria, 16 sides). Mozart began writing this masterpiece in the last few months of his life, for another's memorial. Finished by his pupil Sussmayer, it has since served well as Mozart's own memorial. This is a recording of the magnificent performance in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome on the 150th anniversary of his death (1941). Recording: good...
Next day Manhattan critics joined in the bravos, but more temperately: Giuseppe, they said, has the makeup of a great tenor-if he works at it. They hadn't clacked so over a new tenor since Ferruccio Tagliavini first sang at the Metropolitan last year...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's La Bohème, with Ferruccio Tagliavini, Bidu Sayao...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Robert Merrill. Conductor: Pietro Cimara...
...Says Tagliavini: "Some married singers I have known are so jealous of each other that they hire separate claques. That will never happen in my family...