Renata Tebaldi at Carnegie Hall, 1957 Tacea la notte tale amor

Carnegie Hall New York, April 3rd, 1957, concerto benefico, direttore Dimitri Mitropoulos, con The Philarminic Symphony Orchestra. I ve never heard Leonora s opening aria from Il Trovatore sung with more passion. Tebaldi has so far been the only soprano to my ears who sounded truly in love with Manrico. She even surpasses her own earlier recordings in this live performance. Maybe it was the special relationship she had with the great maestro Mitropoulos that brought out the best of her like in all the br, br,