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  1. www.nprillinois.org › 2024/03/18 › more-than-music-the-storyMore Than Music: The story of Lawrence Tibbett | NPR Illinois

    Mar 18, 2024 · Lawrence Tibbett was born at the turn of the last century. Hailing from Bakersfield, California, he was an artist with a voice that could do it all. And he did.

  2. www.artsjournal.com › uq › 2024What If Porgy Happens to be White? — Celebrating the Art of ...

    Mar 19, 2024 · George Gershwin chose Lawrence Tibbett to make the first recordings of Porgy’s songs from his opera Porgy and Bess. But Tibbett did not sing them at the Alvin Theatre – Todd Duncan (called by Gershwin “the Black Tibbett”) did. Gershwin wanted a Black Porgy onstage, and Tibbett was white.

  3. www.wusf.org › more-than-music-the-story-of-lawrence-tibbettMore Than Music: The story of Lawrence Tibbett | WUSF

    Mar 18, 2024 · Lawrence Tibbett was born at the turn of the last century. Hailing from Bakersfield, California, he was an artist with a voice that could do it all. And he did. He was a great American opera singer. A baritone whose golden voice and good looks also saw him perform as a film actor and radio personality.

  4. www.ideastream.org › 2024/03/18 › more-than-music-the-story-ofMore Than Music: The story of Lawrence Tibbett - Ideastream...

    Mar 18, 2024 · Lawrence Tibbett was born at the turn of the last century. Hailing from Bakersfield, California, he was an artist with a voice that could do it all. And he did. He was a great American opera singer. A baritone whose golden voice and good looks also saw him perform as a film actor and radio personality.

  5. richardslade.substack.com › p › a-tale-of-two-baritonesA Tale of Two Baritones - by Richard Slade

    May 30, 2024 · Lawrence Tibbett was the reigning Verdi baritone at the Met in the 1930s. Alfred Drake was one of the prime leading men on Broadway in the ‘40s/‘50s. They shared the basics of a vocal technique—legit, as it used to be called. Supported full throated singing, designed to project in theaters without amplification. But how ...

  6. conradlosborne.com › 2024/03/21 › special-announcementSpecial Announcement: Lawrence Tibbett on Marston and NPR

    Mar 21, 2024 · Coming up on 75 years since his last Metropolitan performance, there is still a plausible case to be made for Tibbett as the greatest male American classical singer. He set a standard for the singing and acting of the major Verdi baritone roles (Simon Boccanegra, Iago, Rigoletto, Germont) that has not been surpassed.

  7. www.youtube.com › watchLawrence Tibbett Licia Albanese Frederick Jagel Margeret Harshaw...

    Aug 22, 2023 · Il tabarro by Giacomo Puccini performed in Italian Conductor Cesare Sodero - 1946 (LI) Michele - Lawrence Tibbett ...more

  8. www.youtube.com › watchLawrence Tibbett (EMG Mark Xb Oversize Gramophone) - YouTube

    Jun 21, 2023 · Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sings "Largo al factotum" (from act I of "Il barbiere di Siviglia" by Gioacchino Rossini) on Victor Red Seal record 7353-B, played on an EMG Mark Xb Oversize gramophone...

  9. www.wamc.org › more-than-music-the-story-of-lawrence-tibbettMore Than Music: The story of Lawrence Tibbett | WAMC

    Mar 18, 2024 · How did the son of a part-time deputy sheriff, killed in a shootout with a desperado, become so famous?

  10. www.youtube.com › watch"Largo al factotum della citta". "Il barbier di Siviglia"....

    Aug 25, 2023 · "Largo al factotum della citta". ("Room for the factotum of the city"). "Il barbier di Siviglia". Act 1. Rossini. Lawrence Tibbett---Baritone. Sung in Italia...