When I first got interested in opera I hadn't listened to Tosca and I didn't know this aria. Then I got interested in Callas and stumbled on the 1953 Tosca recording. When I heard Di Stefano singing this for the first time I was blown away. After that it has became one of my favorite pieces. Di Stefano just sung it with such passion, beauty and diction that it was just perfection. His soft singing in O dolci bacio and the way he sings the disciogliea dai veli. Corelli later did the same, but he [...]
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