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Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.
Recording Date:1941.
Galliano Masini (1896 - 1986), now almost forgotten, was an enormously popular tenor in the years before the Second World War. Hear him on this recording and you will understand why.
Magda Olivero said on Galliano Masini:
Masini had the most beautiful voice of all tenors—a magnificent bronze sound. What a pity nature had not gifted him with a brain that corresponded to his voice! If he began a performance well, he would sing well throughout. But if he began with a cracked note, he would crack during the entire evening. In 1940 I sang some Adrianas with him at the Rome Opera. Offstage, he was appalling, so ordinary you could die. Onstage, he was perhaps the tenor who most resembled Maurizio, Il conte di Sassonia—regal, elegant, gorgeous. I remember his costume, embroidered with pearls. He also had a magnificent head of black wavy hair and a handsome face. Too bad he was a little slow!