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Directed by: Donald Sturrock
Overview
Rare footage of many of the most illustrious opera stars of the twentieth century, from silent Caruso film and the Vitaphones with Martinelli and de Luca; Tetrazzini, Supervia, Flagstaf; Ponselle in a 1936 screen test of Carmen; Chaliapin, Tauber, Gigli; Sutherland, Price, Olivero, de los Angeles; Björling and Tebaldi in a 1956 broadcast of La Bohème; to Callas in the Lisbon Traviata and the Covent Garden Tosca of 1964
