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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 18. 26th July 1973

Operatic Arias: Renata Tebaldi. Academia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome/Alberto Erede (Ace of Diamonds)

Operatic Arias: Renata Tebaldi. Academia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome/Alberto Erede (Ace of Diamonds).

A real treat, not only for opera fans but especially for lovers of fine sinking. The quality and range of Renata Tebaldi's magnificent voice has rarely thrilled me as much as in these operatic arias. And as a partner, the Academia Orchestra could very well be the perfect model of how an accompanying orchestra should sound and react: it is there all the time, tactful and never intruding on the star's performance, a fact which unfortunately is not always observed by many ensembles of this kind. The programme is mainly Italian — Mascagni, Catalani, Rossini. . . and Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro", with a couple of arias not often heard or known. As opera goes, they are highly sentimental (sentimentalised?) themes of unrequited love, embittered passion, amorous intrigues and melodramatic situations.

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