Tito Gobbi

...Garrett's famous interpretation of the Sacristan in Tosca. Garrett first sang the role in the famous Zeffirelli production starring Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi at Covent Garden in 1964. Garrett brought to the early scenes, in which his...

In this article: Covent Garden, Gianni Schicchi, Luciano Pavarotti, Hamlet, Heart failure, and Welsh National Opera

...and an inhaler. Worse can await, especially in Tosca. Maria Callas once got carried away in the murder scene and managed to draw blood from her Scarpia, Tito Gobbi, with a plastic knife. And in 1995, the ammunition to execute Cavaradossi...

In this article: Carmen, Cortisone, Allergy, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, Juan Diego Florez, and Rinat Shaham

...forza del destino, Calaf in Turandot. Filippeschi made several recordings, notably Pollione in Norma '', opposite Maria Callas, and Carlo in ''Don Carlos, opposite Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff. A handsome man, Filippeschi also appeared...

In this article: Mario Filippeschi, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria Callas, Tosca, Turandot, I puritani, La boheme, and La traviata

...of a passable evening's entertainment. If you happen to have Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi on hand to play the diva and the heavy, you get high-low bliss, like a B movie directed by Rembrandt. "Tosca" has played at the Metropolitan Opera...

In this article: Tosca, Peter Gelb, Franco Zeffirelli, Act II, Traviata, Karita Mattila, and Maria Callas

...definitive Scarpia to the Lyric stage in no fewer than eight seasons from 1954 to 1973. He later turned to stage-directing several "Toscas" in Chicago. Strangely enough, soprano Maria Callas never sang Tosca, one of her most iconic roles,...

In this article: Tosca, Maria Callas, Faust, Emmanuel Villaume, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Merry Widow

...and Maria Callas. In August 1953 he collaborated with Callas in his only commercial opera recording: Puccini 's Tosca for HMV (also featuring Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi along with the La Scala orchestra and chorus). This production is...

In this article: Victor de Sabata, Arturo Toscanini, La Scala, Tosca, Herbert von Karajan, Maria Callas, and Berlin Philharmonic

...La Cenerentola, La favorite, La boheme. In 1964, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London at the request of Maria Callas, conducting her now famous series of Tosca with Tito Gobbi. Debuts at the San Francisco Opera followed in...

In this article: Tosca, Italy, Lyric Opera of Chicago, La boheme, L'elisir d'amore, La sonnambula, Don Carlos, and University of Tucuman

...1960, Jussi Bjorling. Besides his recordings with Callas, he also made complete EMI sets of Madama Butterfly (opposite Victoria de los Angeles, 1954) and La traviata (with Antonietta Stella and Tito Gobbi, 1955). For English Decca he...

In this article: Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Richard Tucker, La Scala, Tosca, L'elisir d'amore, Manon, La traviata, and Jules Massenet

...l'Opera," in which M.Lance appeared, on DVD. He is heard in an excerpt from Il trovatore, and is seen in a staged Act II of Tosca, opposite Callas and Tito Gobbi, conducted by Georges Sebastian. Alain Paris, Dictionnaire des interpretes et...

In this article: Albert Lance, Tosca, Werther, Maria Callas, Opera-Comique, Les contes d'Hoffmann, DVD, and Carmen