Di stefano giuseppe biography of christopher

Giuseppe DI STEFANO ( – )   PART ONE

In there was an Italian language course on Flemish and Dutch TV followed by a documentary. I proposed a programme called ‘Sei fuggitta è non torna più’ or the disappearance of a once inextinguishable breed: the Italian tenor. My Dutch colleague and myself collected footage by Caruso, Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Schipa, Di Stefano, Del Monaco, Bergonzi, Corelli and Pavarotti. We also wanted to interview some former opera stars on the phenomenon. Magda Olivero and Renata Tebaldi cooperated without diffuculty and so we only needed a distinguished member of the breed itself. We started with the most uninteresting of them all though he would get us  most publicity. We even got Pavarotti’s phone number and he was interested to participate but he would like us to check with his managerial shark Breslin. So we called him and he immediately asked what we were able to pay. Olivero and Tebaldi of course  would have been ashamed to ask for money but Breslin was not Di stefano giuseppe biography of christopher paul!