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Tag: Richard Tucker

  • Stella & Tucker: TOSCA @ The Met

    Stella tosca

    Antonietta Stella is Tosca (above) and Richard Tucker is Cavaradossi in this Saturday matinee broadcast from The Met in 1958. Leonard Warren is Scarpia, Salvatore Baccaloni is the Sacristan, and Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts.

    Listen here.

    CAST

    Floria Tosca: Antonietta Stella; Mario Cavaradossi: Richard Tucker; Scarpia: Leonard Warren; Sacristan:  Salvatore Baccaloni; Spoletta: Paul Franke; Angelotti: Norman Scott; Sciarrone: George Cehanovsky; Shepherd: George Keith; Jailer Louis Sgarro

  • Bringing Down the House

    Tucker

    Richard Tucker elicits an ovation after singing “Cielo e mar!” in a performance of LA GIOCONDA at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires in 1966. Tucker was one of the most generous singers I ever encountered, as his singing here attests.

    Richard Tucker – Cielo e mar! – GIOCONDA – Buenos Aires 1966

    And, speaking of Richard Tucker, the annual Tucker Gala will be held on Sunday, October 21st, 2018, at 6:00 PM at Carnegie Hall. Information and tickets here.