EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Verdi: Aida / Tebaldi, Stignani, Del Monaco, Erede . Release Date: 04/12/2003 Label: Decca . Catalog #: 475 310 . Spars Code: ADD . Composer: Giuseppe Verdi . Performer: Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, Fernando Corena, Aldo Protti, . Conductor: Alberto Erede . Orchestra/Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Chorus, Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra . Number of Discs: 2 . Recorded in: Mono . Length: 2 Hours 25 Mins. Works on This Recording: 1. Aida by Giuseppe Verdi Performer: Renata Tebaldi (Soprano), Mario Del Monaco (Tenor), Fernando Corena (Bass), Aldo Protti (Baritone), Dario Caselli (Bass), Piero de Palma (Tenor), Ebe Stignani (Mezzo Soprano) Conductor: Alberto Erede Orchestra/Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Chorus, Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1871; Italy Language: Italian REVIEW: "Now it is well worth putting up with 'old' sound-patterns if, through them, there reaches us the art of a Melba or a Caruso even a Stignani; and this last is what we get here. She is magnificent in the "Ah tu dei vivere" reproach to Radams and her denunciation of the Priests. Renata Tebaldi too was at her peak and her singing in Act 3 especially is worth having strong enunciation, dramatic vehemence, fine phrasing. "O patra mia" is not sung like this very often in any decade and the two great duets which succeed it show Tebaldi as the artist as well as the pace maker." Gramophone [4/1967], from review of Decca LP