Renata Tebaldi

We've been in space for the past two weeks, so we're coming down to earth with Giacomo Puccini's "wild west" opera "The Girl of the Golden West." Our Minnie on this 1958 recording is the wonderful Renata Tebaldi, her love, the bandit Ramirez, is Mario Del Monaco, and the scheming sheriff who also loves Minnie is Cornell MacNeil.

This week's Sunday Opera is a gala production from 1960 and features one of the best of Prince Orlofsky's party entertainment. We'll follow the opera with some New Year's waltzes.

This week's opera looks Puccini's triptych using a different recording for each segment featuring some legendary voices like Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price, and Sheril Milnes.

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