Tag: Tito Gobbi
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Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
“[E]specially notable -is] the contribution of the tenor Franco Corelli, as Canio, which calls for some superlatives… he shows natural feeling for the phrases. … [It’s] not just a question of big glorious noise – though of course he does that too – a performance like this puts several others by more starry names, in…
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Puccini: Tosca – Callas, di Stefano, Gobbi, de Sabata — Bonus: Callas Sings Puccini Arias
“There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas’ first, with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. Gobbi makes the unbelievably evil police chief into a genuinely three-dimensional character, and Di Stefano, as the hero Cavaradossi, was at his finest” © Penguin Guide
