Giuseppe di Stefano - autor

Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955. One of the greatest live complete opera recordings starring Maria Callas, and the best of her recordings of Lucia di Lammermoor. Selected as one of the best performances from the vast Opera d Oro catalog...

During his peak years, Giuseppe Di Stefano (b. 1921) had one of the most sensually beautiful tenor voices ever recorded. He was universally regarded as the leading lyric tenor in the world during the 1950s, and he was the tenor most often chosen...

Enrico Caruso sang in the premiere of this opera in 1898, and it became a favorite worldwide. Giordano s opera Andrea Chenier eventually surpassed it in popularity, and today it is a staple mainly of Italian opera houses but its great tenor aria Amor...