The voice has the perfect balance of radiant ethereal glow, rich velvet, and creamy sweetness. She recorded the aria in the studio in the 60’s but the top had lost its bloom by then.
A favorite Verdi performance from Eli Jacobson
The immortal Renata Tebaldi, just about 29 years old as Saint Joan in a RAI broadcast of Giovanna d’Arco from 1951.
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