Last week saw another important date in this exceptionally anniversary-filled year — the centennial of Italian tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini (Aug. 14, 1913 – Jan. 29. 1995) — and I just had to take note, ...

Metropolitan Operagoers had heard and cheered Italian Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini as no other new Met star had been cheered since before the war (TIME, Jan. 20, 1947). Last week they heard his wife too ...

Once upon a time, there were numerous singers who fit the description “lyric tenor” – a voice type characterized more by tonal sweetness and refined musical taste than by dynamic, balcony-rattling ...

Ferruccio Tagliavini asked his audience at the HST to be kind to him, and for pity's sake, perhaps, they were. They cheered. The tenor sang in a voice harsh from top to bottom, unsure of every ...