This week and the previous one were rich on singers’ anniversaries: last week we could’ve also celebrated Jussi Björling’s birthday, who was born on February 5 th of 1911 this week there are two greats: the soprano Hildegard Behrens who excelled in the German repertoire, from Mozart to Wagner and Berg, and the incomparable Leontyne Price. This recording was made in 1958 in concert Leonard Bernstein conducts The New York Philharmonic. And here is a scene from another opera in which Tebaldi excelled: Pace, pace mio Dio, from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. The Orchestra of Santa Cecilia is conducted by Tullio Serafin. Mi chiamano Mimi, from the 1959 recording. Mimi in La Bohème was one of Tebadli’s great roles. Tebaldi performed till 1976.Īs so often is the case with great artists, it’s difficult to select a recording to illustrate their art. In 1955 she came to New York she would appear at the Met for the following 20 years. In 1950 she sang for the first time at the Covent Garden the same year she made her debut at the San Francisco opera and then in Chicago. She became a regular at La Scala in the post-war era. The conductor that evening was Arturo Toscanini, and both he and the public loved Tebaldi’s voice. In 1946 she took part in the opening concert at the war damaged La Scala. Tebaldi was born in Pesaro on February 1 st of 1922. Opera lovers will be forever divided between those two divas while adoring them both. They shared some roles, Tosca being one of them. Their voices also had somewhat different timbre and range: Callas was a dramatic soprano capable of singing coloratura parties, she was especially good in the bel canto repertoire, while Tebaldi was a lyric soprano at her best in the verismo operas. It’s difficult to argue that Tebaldi’s voice was more “classical” and in many ways better, although Callas’s had an amazing emotional quality which Tebadli’s interpretations sometimes lacked. Last week we missed a very important anniversary: Renata Tebaldi was born 100 years ago! Tebaldi had one of the most beautiful voices of the century, which Toscanini called “the voice of an angel.” She was a rival of Maria Callas, who was a year younger than Tebaldi – it’s hard to imagine that two sopranos of such talent were singing contemporaneously, although Callas’s career was much shorter. This Week in Classical Music: February 7, 2022.
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