Singer Portraits - Renata Tebaldi & Joan Sutherland - Metropolitan Opera Guild - May 16, May 23
The Art of Renata Tebaldi in Verdi
& Verismo - May 16 - 11 am
Renata Tebaldi was
an Italian soprano, who has been said to have possessed one of the
most beautiful voices of the 20th century. Conductor Arturo Toscanini called
her "voce d'angelo" (Voice of an Angel). Tebaldi was
trained and concentrated on roles of the late Verdi and
Verismo eras, where only a minimal use of florid technique belonged to her
repertoire.
The Art of Joan Sutherland in Bel
Canto - May 23 - 11 am
Dame Joan Sutherland was an Australian
dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of
the bel canto repertoire
from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possessed a voice of great
facility and power, combining extraordinary agility and a tremendous upper
register. Her colleague Luciano Pavarotti once
called Sutherland the "Voice of the Century".
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