R. Tebaldi & G. Raimondi "Love duet" M. Butterfly Live 1958

Arena Flegrea Napoli August 9, 1958

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Music

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• Opera
• Puccini
• Madama
• Butterfly
• Cio-Cio-San
• Renata
• Tebaldi
• Pinkerton
• Gianni
• Raimondi

[GavinLyKW]

Tebaldi sounds very young here. Her live recordings capture her voice and her emotions much better than her studio ones.

[sospello]

I also like Raimondi's Cavaradossi and Rodolfo. Thank you for posting a tenor who is not heard as often as many. Here with Tebaldi in one of her best years.

[Dymension]

@sammyscroll Many a performance have been saved by prompting. This has been quite standard for quite some time now. The fact you can hear it just means that the microphone was close to promptor's box.

[Dymension]

@VivaMariaCallas Prompters are still standard practice in some larger houses, most notably the Met.

[anacleto2011]

che fastidio quel suggeritore ...

[roselandalvin]

I saw Mr Raimondi live in 1969 sing La Boheme ---- Beautiful voice!! This a treasure of beautiful tone and singers who feel the music and stay on pitch!!! Thank you for this glimpse into the art of pure vocalism--

[adolfoa1961]

@VivaMariaCallas , Tebaldi debuted Madama Butterfly at Liceo de Barcelona on january 1958.

That same year 1958 she recorded it at Roma with Tuliio Serafin on july 1958 and sang performances in Naples on august 1958 (this tape), Chicago on october 1958 and New York on november 1958

[sammyscroll]

Terrible because of the prompting...never experienced anything like that before...two beautiful voices ruined by this stupidity.........

[65attila]

I cannot imagine anyone singing this music than Tebaldi except Tebaldi herself in another performance. The 1950

performance wirh Di Stefano, just the Duet, is also beautiful.

Thank you for posting

[VivaMariaCallas]

If I'm not mistaken, this is actually Tebaldi's first live Butterfly. She, of course, had recorded it earlier though.

Prompters were standard practice then. A lot of live recordings back then were made very close to the prompter's box, if not by the prompter him/herself.

[amayzak]

WHY is there a prompter??? Both of them were veterans of the theater by this point and has multiple Butterflys under their belt...

[TheLifar]

Che bello questo duetto, che voci sublimi!

E Raimondi, che uomo di cuore! Mai abbastanza apprezzato . Una voce sincera , schietta. Sul suo pianoforte aveva una copia di un libro, di cui non ricordo il titolo, dove Pavarotti diceva di essersi ispirato a lui, e ne andava particolarmente fiero, con il suo tratto di modestia che l'ha contraddistinto. Per certi versi Lucianone non l'ha mai sorpassato, nonostante la fama planetaria