Di stefano giuseppe biography of nancy grace

Lubbock Magazine October , His statement is almost always misquoted to include every sound he heard in the whole his life. On December 9, , I heard the tenor duplicate the feat at the same venue. I was as impressed as Bing had been. Unfortunately, this season proved to be the last good one left to the year-old singer whose tenure at the operatic summit was as spectacular as it was brief.

Born in Sicily in , his family moved to Milan when he was six. When he was a teenager, he discovered that he had an operatic voice and began vocal lessons. As everyone knows, the Italian Army thinks much more of singing than fighting, so Di Stefano was kept away from the front and allowed to sing. Di Stefano fled to Switzerland where he was interned.

At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Italy where he resumed vocal studies.

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But not for long; he was a natural and there was no holding him back. He made his operatic debut in , the following year he was at La Scala, and the year after that, he appeared at the Met for the first time. From to , he appeared at the Met in more than performances. Di Stefano accepted engagements in his home country that conflicted with his obligations to the New York house.

Bing, whose managerial style was akin to that of Attila the Hun, fired him. Di Stefano brought legal action and eventually forced the Met to take him back for the season of , which was when I heard him onstage.