Rare video of Ezio Pinza and Blanche Thebom

Some rare video footage of Ezio Pinza in rehearsal for a 1947 appearance on the Bell Telephone Hour. The video opens with Donald Voorhees rehearsing the orchestra in the Overture to Smetana s Bartered Bride, then has Pinza rehearsing Tosti s L ultima canzone (3:40) with Voorhees at the piano. That s followed by an alltoobrief excerpt of Blanche Thebom singing Amour Viens aider ma faiblesse from Samson et Dalila (7:04) and Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni with Pinza and Thebom (10:12), and Le Cor by Ange Flégier (13:30).