Tosca, Turandot, Rigoletto, Bohème, Trovatore, Otello, songs. 30m. Packaged in a black sleeve. B&W.
NTSC or PAL VHS

This tape is devoted to another television appearance, in which the tenor not only performs a half-dozen Verdi and Puccini arias and some songs but actually hosts the program in Italian (with German voiceovers). He looks thin, almost drawn, even vulnerable. This is but a visual image, however, for when he opens his mouth to sing, he assumes Sherman tank proportions. This is the way most of us prefer to remember Mario Del Monaco--a great artist but strictly on his own terms--terms that often confounded critics but were readily accepted and relished by the opera-going public of his time. Would that his like (or 50 percent of it) were with us today!--Joe Pearce

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