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Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi (Pesaro, 1 febbraio 1922 - San Marino, 19 dicembre 2004) è un celebre soprano italiano.
Il maestro Arturo Toscanini la soprannominò "voce d'angelo".
Oltre che per la bellezza e la purezza della sua voce, fu ammirata anche per l'elegante presenza scenica.
All'età di tre anni fu colpita da poliomielite, dalla quale guarì completamente.
Studiò al conservatorio di Parma e poi al Liceo Gioacchino Rossini di Pesaro. Nel 1944 debuttò a Rovigo nel ruolo di Elena nel Mefistofele di Arrigo Boito.
Nel 1946 partecipò al concerto di riapertura della Scala di Milano, sotto la direzione del maestro Arturo Toscanini, cantando la Pregheria del Mosè in Egitto di Rossini e la parte da soprano del Te Deum di Giuseppe Verdi. Un evento del quale resta una registrazione.
Nel 1953 fu autrice del doppiaggio di Sophia Loren nelle scene di canto lirico del film "Aida", di Clemente Fracassi.
Il debutto americano avvenne alla San Francisco Opera, seguito a breve il 31 gennaio 1955 dalla prima esibizione al Metropolitan di New York, dove la Tebaldi fu Desdemona nell'Otello, dividendo la scena con Mario Del Monaco. Le sue apparizioni al Metropolitan si susseguirono per anni con grande regolarità; tra le sue intepretazioni, Mimì nella Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, e Violetta nella Traviata. Pur dotata insomma di una voce da soprano lirico, fu in grado di affrontare appropriatamente ruoli che richiedono doti (e voce) drammatiche: tra essi, oltre ad alcuni di quelli già citati, la Leonora della Forza del destino (splendida, per inciso, la registrazione Decca del 1955); o la Elisabetta del Don Carlo (un po' meno notevole, per la verità, quella testimoniata dalla discografia ufficiale: ancora una volta la Decca sotto la direzione di Solti, con Bergonzi protagonista).
Tra le numerose esibizioni nel mondo si contano anche quelle nella stagione 1975-76 in Unione Sovietica.
Tra i direttori dorchestra con cui ha lavorato figurano nomi come Arturo Toscanini, Georg Solti e Herbert von Karajan.
Si ritirò dalle scene nel 1976, dopo una serata di beneficenza alla Scala a sostegno dei terremotati del Friuli.
Si è detto che esistesse una rivalità tra la Tebaldi e Maria Callas, ma più che tra le due dive, sembra che la rivalità fosse tra i fans più sfegatati delle due cantanti. Comunque fosse, il 16 settembre 1968 la Callas si recò dietro le quinte a congratularsi vivamente con la Tebaldi dopo la sua esibizione nella Adriana Lecouvreur, dissipando definitivamente ogni voce di cattivo sangue tra le due cantanti.
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The Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi (February 1, 1922 December 19, 2004) was one of the most famous sopranos of the post-war period. She was greatly admired for the beauty and purity of her voice, and her elegant stage presence.
Tebaldi was born Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi in Pesaro. Stricken with polio at the age of three, Tebaldi was unable to partake in strenuous activities and instead became interested in music. In her early teens, she began studying music at the Conservatory of Parma. At age 22, Tebaldi made her debut as Elena in Boito's Mefistofele in Rovigo.
Her major breakthrough came in 1946, when she auditioned in Milan for Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini was favorably impressed, calling her "voce d'angelo" (angel voice). Tebaldi made her La Scala debut that year at the concert which marked the reopening of the theater after World War II. She sang the "Prayer" ("Dal tuo stellato soglio") from Rossini's biblical opera, Mosè in Egitto, as well as the soprano part in Verdi's Te Deum. Her voice was used for Sophia Loren's singing in the film version of Aida (1953).
Tebaldi made her American debut in 1950 as Aïda at the San Francisco Opera; her Metropolitan Opera debut took place on January 31, 1955, as Desdemona opposite Mario del Monaco's Otello. She then began appearing regularly at the Met as Mimi in La bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Desdemona, Manon, and Violetta in a production of La Traviata created specially for her.
Renata TebaldiFor the 1962/1963 season, Tebaldi convinced the director of the Met, Rudolf Bing, to stage a revival of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. The opera had not been staged since the turn of the century, but Bing was convinced that it would be a great success for Tebaldi, and for Franco Corelli, who sang the role of Maurizio. Unfortunately, Tebaldi was not in top vocal form. Alarmed, she took a thirteen-month hiatus from the stage. She later returned as Mimi to great acclaim.
Tebaldi retired from the stage in 1973 and from the concert hall in 1976. She spent the majority of her last days in Milan, but it was at her home, in San Marino, where she died at age 82.
Much has been made of a supposed rivalry between Tebaldi and Maria Callas, who was also active in Italy in the 1950s, but it appears to have been above all a rivalry between the highly partisan fans of the two divas. Callas may have fed the impression with untimely remarks to the press ("Comparing Tebaldi with me is just like comparing coke with champagne," she said once). While both were active at the same time, the two singers had very different voices, repertoires and temperaments. In any case, on September 16, 1968, Callas went backstage after a performance of Adriana Lecouvreur to warmly congratulate Tebaldi, thereby dispelling any bad blood once and for all.
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