Silvio Varviso
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Silvio Varviso was a Swiss conductor who spent most of his career devoted to conducting opera. He began his conducting career working in minor opera houses in Switzerland in the mid-1940s. He became t
Silvio Varviso reads the placard advertising his debut performance at the Metropolitan Opera, in 1961.
Renata Tebaldi
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Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. Often c
Silvio Varviso
…as Cio-Cio-San, Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus with Theodor Uppman as Eisenstein and Jeanette Scovotti as Adele, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur with Renata Tebaldi in the title role and Franco Corelli as Maurizio, La sonnambula with Sutherland as Amina and Nicolai Gedda as Elvino, Tosca with Gabriella Tucci in the…
Tebaldi in 1974
Tebaldi with Giuseppe Di Stefano in Rome, 1960
Renata Tebaldi, 1961
Garden in Milan dedicated to Renata Tebaldi