Gary in Toronto, Canada wrote:

Gary in Toronto, Canada wrote:

Thanks for your sharing on your article printed in
MingPaoDailyNews(Toronto), Feb 5th, 2007.

Just to share with you some very minimal recordings that I
have:

1. RIGOLETTO: Robert Merrill(Rigoletto), Anna Moffo(Gilda),
Alfredo Kraus (Duke of Mantua). George Solti conducting the
RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Recorded in June
1963 at RCA Italiana Studios, Rome, Italy.

2. TOSCA: Renata Tebaldi(Tosca), Cavaradossi(Giuseppe Di
Stefano), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia). Recorded live in Milan
1959. Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, with Orchestra and
Chorus if Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

(and not to mention the classic recording by Callas, Di
Stefano and Gobbi in 1953, EMI)

3. THE PEARL FISCHERS: Alfredo Kraus(Nadir), Giuseppe
Taddei(Zurga). Live performance, Milan November 3, 1960.
RAI chorus & orchestra, Milan, conducted by Armando LaRosa
Parodi. (Sung in Italian)

4. From Nimbus Records, PRIMA VOCE series:
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI. Beniamino Gigli.
Milan 1934 and 1940.

5. From Nimbus Records, PRIMA VOCE series:
LA BOHEME. Beniamino Gigli. La Scala, Milan 1938.

Thanks!


李察回話:

Dear Gary,

really thank you. and I believe, in the past decade, there might be more valuable records then before.

I would like to hear more from you. for example, which one song, on what moment,
is the best song for you?


Leechard