Renata Tebaldi was and is surely one of the best Spinto soprano voices that any century has ever heard. She made her operatic debut, through bombed streets in 1944 in Mefistofele, as Elena. Then was hand picked for the reopening of La Scala, 46 by Toscanini. It was there that the legendary "Voice of an Angel" started. He put Tebaldi upon a podium, ...
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6628 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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Arturo Toscanini named her "Angel voice".
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After her death, her close friend Tina said: "You saw her die so many times on the stage... This time, she's really gone".
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She sang in the May 11, 1946 concert which re-opened La Scala Opera House, which had been bombed during WWII and then rebuilt. Arturo Toscanini was the conductor.
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World-renowned Italian operatic soprano; many consider her the greatest Italian soprano of the twentieth century, and the only real rival to Maria Callas.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sing
2016
performer: "Con amor muore...tu, tu? Piccolo iddio"
Banda sonora
2012
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Funny Games
2007
performer: "TU QUI SANTUZZA"
No Reservations
2007
performer: "Un bel dì" from the opera "Madama Butterfly", as used in the film, "O mio babbino caro" as used in the film " from the opera "Gianni Schicchi"
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2004
performer: "Non Piangere, Liu" 1922-1924
Smallville
2002
TV Series performer - 1 episode
An American Rhapsody
2001
performer: "La Boheme: Sì, mi chiamano Mimì" 1896
El amor perjudica seriamente la salud
1996
performer: "Othello"
Basquiat
1996
performer: "D'amor Sull'ali Rosee" Il Travatore, Act 4 Sc. 1
$200,000
