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I have been asked to be the guest of honor at the 15th Anniversary Gala to celebrate this wonderful museum dedicated to this great singer.
It should be terrific fun and I cannot wait to visit the actual museum in Brooklyn……

Click on the PDF to enjoy and download the flyer about the event…… and then watch this first clip on Youtube by the museum.

It makes such sense, Caruso was a pioneer using the gramophone to spread the word about great opera, bringing his great voice into everyone’s living rooms.

Now he arrives with his museum on Youtube. His clips are already there in amazing numbers and now his museum will use this new medium to continue to spread the word about this great singer and the great world of opera he so beautifully represents……love this.

15th-anniversary

and also here it is for those who do not wish to download……



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“I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spay, became beauty and rhythm… I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of Man, to Life itself. When I was swimming far out… I have had the same experience. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see – and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning!” -Eugene O’Neill

I love this brass relief of Verdi…… Look how he maintains his supreme focus while life and laments and even music tries to distract him…..what would he be saying these days? What a brilliant genius at any time of his creative life…..

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The new year has brought some progress and some thought, and when I can I will announce some very interesting news.

It felt wonderful to sing, feels good to move better and am keeping the steady but healthy progress to a better “image” and for those that enjoy my gifts, there will be some joy ahead.

Fingers crossed, and so very thrilled.

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Pop that cork dear, glorious Renata Tebaldi, all of the world is thinking of you always but especially on this wonderful day, February 1, the day of your arrival here on Earth.
The love affair continues, exhausted but happy, kneeling in humble but supreme happiness, in front of her family.

We are still sending flowers to you on this special day.
So many people called for her birthday always, and sent flowers, three days to a week and a hoarse diva at the end of the celebrations as she would speak to everyone who called.

Dear friend, in this age of “little flickers”, we remember the lush grandeur of your velvet voice, full of all things feminine, vulnerable yet strong, harmonics and gleams of sunshine delivered to an adoring public in a wall of complete dazzling sound and immense depth. You are remembered and loved on this day and always…… Brava Renata…… Viva per sempre, Te-bal-di….!!!!!

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The Singers’ Studio: Aprile Millo – Interview

Monday, May 03, 2010 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Metropolitan Opera Guild

Hear what opera stars of past, present, and future have to say about their work through this new series, produced in collaboration with OPERA NEWS magazine and the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Public Programs department.

May 3 – In Studio: Aprile Millo
in conversation with Paul Gruber

The New York Times has called Aprile Millo “the last of the Golden Age sopranos.” She speaks with the Guild’s Paul Gruber about her extensive career and her current activities.

This event will be held in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Opera Learning Center on the 6th floor of the Samuel B. & David Rose building at Lincoln Center.

Price: $20.00
Member Price: $20.00

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2010. Amazing. New decade begins.
When I was in high school, the thought of the Millennium was of a far off date, from my graduation in 1976 from Hollywood High, I would joke to my friends, “Can you imagine what the world will be like?” Here we are already a decade in. Preparing to bring in the new year, and reflecting as I always do on the events of the year and the friends and family I surround myself with… feeling very blessed.

A couple of dear friends crossed over and I will raise a cup of kindness yet in their memory at Midnight…..dear Dolores Sutton and Geri Tallone.

May God bless this marvelous country, this amazing world we love in. May we learn Peace is the only alternative, and acceptance and compassion is the only solution. May our brave brothers and sisters be brought home safely from the wars, and may all those who cry out in torment and need have a hand that lifts them from their misery. We do hear, we are here, here with you we are.

Thank you for the little victories this year, so important, and for which I am full of gratitude. One step at a time, moving forward, serving music, loving and living and giving.

Happy New Year, and as Tiny Tim intones, “God bless us everyone”……… Amen.

All you need is love by the way. This great youtube video speaks, or rather sings for itself….

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“Profonda and Infinita!!”
A little animated Tebaldi wishes Christmas Greetings complete with puppy….and leads you to her superb web site and the amazing news that it looks like New York will get to show it’s love again for the great Tebaldi as the magnificent Tebaldi Exhibit, seen all over the world, finally comes to New York. If only to the hear her blessed voice singing a real Butterfly, “Vogliatemi bene!…” with Carlo Bergonzi…. go see for yourselves the happy, not to be missed news.

Spread the word where you can….. cut and paste these in your browser window….. and go!!!!

As of now, It has been moved to this date 18 or 19 of Settembre to 31 Ottobre 2010. The exhibit will be displayed at the Casa Italiana/ Italiano Institute of Culture on Park Avenue.
Riccardo Muti will speak about Renata and the exhibit at a press conference the 15 Marzo 2010 at the Institute of Italian Culture, among other things I imagine. Please keep checking back at the Tebaldi official web site for further updates on this thrilling news. Be ready to support this great event……

“http://194.184.205.10/tebaldi_natale/tebaldi_natale.html”

and her website…..

“http://www.renatatebaldi.eu/index.php?/it/Latest/”

Nella Repubblica, Italian newspaper…… click….

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What a whirlwind little trio of months this has been. Four months ago, and fifty-five pounds fatter, not moving well, back in crisis, and health at risk, life was passing quickly. How merciful God can be. Working hard to push past the stubborn remains of an “isolationist” fat, and winning. The music playing for this period, “Bach’s Sleeper’s Awake….” Planning for the New Year’s, and then so many interesting ideas. Must complete the transformation and then be about my real business, making music.

2010, twenty-ten, amazing. Morning breaks across a wintry New York sky. “Habe dank”, oh yes, “Habe dank!”

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The “Elegie of Massenet” with Lynn Harrell, cello and Lucy Arner, piano

“Ne poi krasavitza…” Rachmaninoff with Lynn Harrell, cello and Lucy Arner, piano

“Villa Triste” with accordionist Mary Lou Vetere

“Laggiu del Soledad” from Puccini’s masterpiece, “La Fanciulla del West” with Lucy Arner, piano

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Some memories and photos, so thrilled and proud.

Debut: June 1984 Ernani Central Park
Debut: Dec. 3, 1984 in house Met Opera Simon Boccanegra
Ernani, Elvira
Don Carlo, Elisabetta
Aida, Aida
Il Trovatore, Leonora
Otello, Desdemona
Turandot, Liu
Luisa Miller, Luisa
Andrea Chenier, Maddalena
Un Ballo in Maschera, Amelia
I Lombardi, Giselda
Mefistofole, Margarita, Helene
Tosca, Tosca
La Gioconda, Gioconda

Il Trovatore, debut for role at Vienna State Oper 1988
Aida debut for role Salt Lake City, 1980
Ernani debut for role 1982-83 Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Andrea Chenier- debut for role in Santiago Chile, 1985
Mefistofole- debut in role- Lyric Opera of Chicago 1991
I Lombardi- concert staging role debut- Opera Orchestra of New York 1987
Tosca – role debut- Teatro Liecu- Barcelona – 1997
La Forza del Destino- Bavarian State Theater- Munich- 1992
Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlo, Turandot, Luisa Miller, Otello and Un Ballo in Maschera
and Mefistofole as Helene and Margharita, all for the Met Opera for role debut.

Opera Orchestra-
William Tell, Lombardi, La Battaglia di Legnano, Andrea Chenier, Il Pirata
La Wally, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Gioconda, La Fanciulla del West

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