![]() ![]() Much can be read about her career in the booklets which accompany the recordings of La Boheme (GEMS 0165) and Madama Butterfly (GEMS 0172) and this is a good reason for giving rather more space on this occasion to her leading co-prindpals. This is the third in a series of complete operas being reissued by Pearl, featuring Renata Tebaldi. Information is never quite complete, but I have been unable so far to trace a single occasion when the three sang together in a `live' Aida or for that matter anything else. ![]() The three leading principals in this complete recording of Aida were widely regarded in the Italian world of opera as the leading exponents of their roles - Tebaldi as Aida del Monaco as Radames Ebe Stignani as Amneris. Much later we began to realize that the commercial records also actually contained some `dream casting' not often encountered in the opera house. Renata Tebaldi was frequently partnered by Mario del Monaco but almost never by Giuseppe di Stefano. There were complaints from record collectors about the implications of exclusivity. Major companies hastened to secure exclusive contacts with leading artists. The beginning of the LP era heralded a plethora of studio-based recordings of complete operas. ![]()
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