Tag Archives: Cesare Valletti
Recording of the Week – La Traviata
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th May 2009This is the first post of a series “Recording of the Week”. Be aware that my “week” has between one and 365 days. Also the year that the week it belongs to is any since 1930. Now that we have the details out of the way, let’s start with Verdi’s La Traviata. Pierre Monteux conducted…
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Cesare Valletti
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 24th October 2008Born in Rome in 1922, Cesare Valletti was the leading tenore di grazia of the 1950’s. A while back Malley Keelan asked me to post something about the late Roman tenor; this is it. Valletti’s tenure at the Met coincided with those of some of the 20th century’s greatest tenors. In 1956, for example, Björling,…
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