Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR RARE------------------AN OPERATIC RECITAL BY FLAVIANO LABO WITH ORCHESTRA OF L'ACCADEMIA DI SANTA CECILIA, ROME /FERNANDO PREVITALI, CONDUCTOR LP. Superlative performances of great opera arias by the a sublime tenor! Each performance is a gem. Flaviano Labo (February 1, 1927 ? February 13, 1991), was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the Italian repertory. Labo was born at Borgonovo, near Piacenza. While in the army, he came to the notice of the conductor Antonino Votto, and subsequently studied with Ettore Campogalliani in Parma, Renato Pastorino in Milan and Valentino Metti in Piacenza. He made his stage debut at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, as Cavaradossi in Tosca, in 1954. He quickly sang widely in Italy and various European opera houses, as well as in South America, before making his debut on November 29, 1957, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Alvaro in La forza del destino, where he sang thirteen roles in eight seasons, including Alfredo in La traviata, Manrico in Il trovatore, and Radames in Aïda. In 1959, he sang at the New York City Opera as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot (conducted by Julius Rudel) and Rodolfo in La boheme (opposite Chester Ludgin as Marcello). He also appeared at the San Francisco Opera, and the opera houses of Philadelphia, Houston, and New Orleans. Labo was admired for his robust, typically Italianate voice, and his direct unaffected manner; other notable roles included Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth, Enzo in La Gioconda, and Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. His last performance was in Turin, as Ismaele in Nabucco, in 1987. He died in in an automobile accident caused by fog in Milan at the age of 64. He made relatively few recordings. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Format: original_recording