One of his very best-voiced outings in Italian rep, he establishes his character in the very first line of the recit, and weds great feeling to real vocal splendor of a kind one rarely encounters. Note the piano start of the repeated A section.
A favorite bass performance from Krunoslav
Boris Christoff’s Procida (along with Cerquetti’s Elena) lifts Mario Rossi’s RAI Torino Vespri to distinction.
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