Maria Cebotari - Il Cavaliere- So Anch'io La Virtu

[saltburner2]

I think she made one or two films with Gigli: is this perhaps from one of them?

She was the Donna Anna to Tauber's last Don Ottavio at Covent Garden on 27 September 1947, less than a week before his caancerous left lung was removed. She herself died of cancer on 9 June 1949, aged 39.

Her husband, the actor Gustav Diessl, died in 1948.

Their two young sons were adopted by pianist Clifford Curzon and his wife.

[paulostroff99]

Stunning! TY.

[jacobsimon]

Yummy and plummy! Maria also had stage and movie presence. A Moldavian Jeanette MacDonald, but better.

[cantorandopera]

Totally delightful!

[conniefan57]

I love the voice from Maria Cebotari!!