Episode 098: Biographies In Music: Francis Robinson: Amelita Galli-Curci




The Operatic PastCast show

Summary: One of the great series of intermission featurees from the past was Biographies in Music presented by Francis Robinson.   Here is one of those episodes on the subject of Golden Age coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci.  The listener will also hear excerpts from I puritani, Rigoletto, Dinorah, La sonnambula, Don Pasquale, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia and the songs “Home, Sweet Home”, “The Wren” and “When Cloris Sleeps”.