ROME (AP) -- Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano renowned for her stardom at New York's Metropolitan and Italy's La Scala and her media-fueled rivalry with Maria Callas, died Sunday at age 82. The ...

ROME — Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano renowned for her angelic voice, her stardom at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala and her media-fueled rivalry with Maria Callas, died Sunday ...

The loyal fans of Soprano Renata Tebaldi had a hard time in recent years detecting the girlish silhouette of Mimi, say, or Leonora beneath their favorite’s puffed-up form. Unlike her archrival Callas.

Listening to Renata Tebaldi’s voice for the first time is a startling experience. I first heard it more than 20 years ago, while shopping for Maria Callas LPs at Tower Records. Suddenly, the air ...

Renata Tebaldi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La ...

Renowned opera singer Renata Tebaldi died Sunday at her home in Italy. Tebaldi, one of the great Italian operatic sopranos of the 20th century, was 82. Patrick Smith, former editor of Opera News, says ...

Rudolf Bing, general manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera Company, is not given to discussing his dreams, but it has been whispered that he is haunted by a recurring nightmare. In the dream he is ...