It was only in 1975, when she was 65, that the Met finally deigned to offer her a few performances of Tosca. Speaking of live performances (which we did, a paragraph-and-a-half above), two capture the legendary soprano Magda Olivero: one is sound only from Verona the other is a DVD from Italian Radio in Turin from 1961. By the way! EMI, in 1929, recorded Tosca with the orchestra and chorus of Milan’s La Scala, conducted by Carlo Sabajno Tosca was sung by Carmen Melis, who became Tebaldi’s teacher. Tebaldi made at least 2 studio recordings of the role, and there’s a DVD performance, with George London, from Stuttgart in 1961. You DIVA-Lovers of a certain age might be interested in two other performances captured live from Covent Garden: Renata Tebaldi in 1955, with Ferruccio Tagliavini and Tito Gobbi two years later Zinka Milanov sang the role with Franco Corelli and the stunning, and stunningly under-rated Giangiacomo Guelfi. Youtube has the entire Second Act of the famous 1964 production at London’s Covent Garden, with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi and Renato Cioni, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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