All Tebaldi, All the Time

Those clips from Forza La Cieca posted a couple of weeks ago got her obsessing on Renata Tebaldi, surely one of the healthier obsessions! So La Cieca has launched a new web radio show, “A Tebaldi Festival,” over 10 hours of all-live prime Tebaldi. Featured are complete performances of La forza del destino (Florence, 1953), Fedora (Naples, 1961), La traviata (Naples, 1954), and La Wally (RAI, 1960) — plus brani scelti from Adriana Lecouvreur, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La fanciulla del West. Also headlining the show: Mario del Monaco, Aldo Protti, Fedora Barbieri, Cesare Siepi, Renato Capecchi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Mario Sereni, Giacinto Prandelli, Anselmo Colzani, Ettore Bastianini, Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker, Dimitri Mitropouplos, Tullio Serafin, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, and Arturo Basile.