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1922–2004 Italian soprano Tebaldi sang regularly at La Scala, Milan 1949–54. She made her debut with the Covent Garden company as Tosca in 1955; in the same year she joined the Metropolitan Opera. She also appeared in San Francisco, Chicago and South America. A powerful soprano, her roles included Aida, Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur and Catalani’s La Wally. ...

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1922–2004, Italian Tebaldi studied at the Conservatory of Milan before auditioning for Arturo Toscanini in 1946. Impressed with her exceptional voice, Toscanini offered Tebaldi a concert engagement at La Scala, where she remained on the roster for the next five years. By the mid-1950s, both Tebaldi and Maria Callas were performing regularly at the Met and, ...

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but he was afforded a huge state funeral in Krakow. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Major Operas | King Roger by Karol Szymanowski | Modern Era Personalities | Renata Tebaldi | Modern Era | Opera ...

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Lächelns (‘The Land of Smiles’) in 1931. He sang Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) at Covent Garden shortly before his death. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Renata Tebaldi | Modern Era | Classical ...

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and Sutherland the first soprano superstars on a global scale. As commanding in Austro-German repertory as they were in Italian, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf excelled in Mozart and Richard Strauss. Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), meanwhile, was hailed by some as Callas’s vocal superior, damned by others as lacking true expressivity; Montserrat Caballé divided opinion along similar lines. Kiri Te Kanawa (b. ...