Fri, 21 July 2017
I saw 5 of them in 1954!!!!!! Trouble with top notes but she did lose the C in the 50's....However for me the greatest singer in my life..saw her 88 times...well 88 and a half,as she fainted during a Verdi Requiem. She sounded so bad that night the "faint" might have been faked! The tenor was Gino Penno..loudest top I ever heard, but did not last long. Blanche Thebom was Adalgisa and Cesare Siepi was Oroveso. IN MIA MAN in last act is an example of her greatness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |