( Such sessions could be a daunting experience for singers of Tamagno's generation, who were accustomed to performing before an audience in an opera house environment.

The Historic Masters boxed set is accompanied by a biographical essay written by Michael Aspinall, who also discusses Tamagno's discography and appraises his vocal technique.

The baritone on the Otello duet is anonymous but Aspinall believes it might be Tamagno's younger brother, Giovanni, who had a minor singing career.

But his international career did not take off explosively until 1888, with the role of Otello — which Verdi had penned with Tamagno's voice in mind — serving as his global calling card.

An elegant lyric-dramatic tenor of the French school, de Reszke's repertoire overlapped Tamagno's to some extent, and although he could never out sing his Italian rival, he had a rounder voice and a suaver stage presence.

) Tamagno's vocal range extended effortlessly up to a resounding high C-sharp during his prime, but he was no mere ' belter ' of high notes ; for his recordings provide evidence of his ability, even at career's end, to sing softly when required, modulating the dynamic levels of his clarion instrument with remarkable skill and unexpected sensitivity.

Tamagno's obituary in the New York Times says that he sang in the United States for the first time in 1890.

The amount charged for each of Tamagno's discs represented at least a week's wages for the common man and for that outlay he would receive a single-sided product, sometimes containing less than two minutes of music.

Soprano Nellie Melba's most recent biographer, Ann Blainey, recounts how Melba reacted to Tamagno's penny-pinching when she twice encountered demonstrations of it during the 1894-1895 New York Met season:

" ( Verdi expressed reservations about Tamagno's softer singing, not about the power and ring of his vocalism in dramatic passages of the score.

In 1892, he took part in a revival of Puccini's flawed early opera Edgar that was staged in Madrid under the supervision of the composer ; but even Tamagno's involvement in the enterprise was not enough to reinvigorate Edgar and it remains rarely heard.

To paraphrase Tamagno's New York Times obituary of 1 September 1905, such was the extraordinary facility of the tenor's upper register, he made the hurling forth of his high A, B and C sound as easy as everyday speech.

To give just five specific examples of Tamagno's foreign engagements in the wake of the 1887 premiere of Otello, he performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1894 – 1895, at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1889, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1896-97, at the Paris Opera in 1897, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1895 and 1901.

Tamagno's medical condition failed to improve, however, and he suffered a heart attack while at the villa.

B. Steane's The Grand Tradition: 70 Years of Singing on Record ( Duckworth, London, 1974 ) contain evaluations of Tamagno's voice and artistry.

Furthermore, the Teatro Regio di Torino has acquired many of Tamagno's costumes and other items relating to his operatic career, while his butterfly collection can be viewed in Varese at the Villa Mirabello.

Tamagno's intensely bright, steel-tipped voice with its stentorian timbre, open production, vigorous ( but never disruptive ) vibrato and incisive declamation is preserved on two batches of technologically primitive recordings of operatic items.

They were made during February 1903 at Tamagno's holiday retreat in Ospedaletti and during April 1904 at a ' studio ' in Rome.

The British Gramophone & Typewriter Company, HMV / EMI's predecessor, produced all of Tamagno's shellac discs, which were 10 or 12 inches in size and played at a nominal 78 revolutions per minute.

Roland Gelatt's revised edition of The Fabulous Phonograph ( Collier Books, New York, 1977, p. 119 ) asserts that Tamagno's recording contract, signed in December 1902, was the first to embody " the royalty principle ".

Clearly, Tamagno's recordings were aimed at upper-crust customers, as were those made by such eminent contemporaries of his as Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Pol Plançon and Mattia Battistini.

The small group of composers featured on Tamagno's combined recorded output of 1903 and 1904 comprises Giacomo Meyerbeer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, de Lara, Giordano, Rossini and, naturally enough, Verdi.

Consequently his voice, although still astonishingly powerful and kept under firm technical control, was no longer at its peak, though the recording technology of the time was almost certainly not equal to the task of capturing the full breadth of Tamagno's ability at the time.

Potter pays tribute to Tamagno's vocal attributes in his book about the history of tenor singing, averring that his " recorded legacy " is " a priceless connection with Verdi " while Steane, writing in The Grand Tradition ( pp. 19 – 23 ), praises Tamagno's discs as " artistic and devoted performances by a singer of exceptional gifts " with a " great voice ".

Scott declares in The Record of Singing ( pp. 131 – 133 ) that Tamagno's Otello recordings are " invaluable historically " with the Esultate in particular displaying " amazing force " and all of them exhibiting an " intensity of utterance " that is " unique ".

Other late accounts claim that Macareus had a daughter named Amphissa, beloved by Apollo.

* Eugenie Victoria " Bonnie Blue " Butler: Scarlett and Rhett's beloved, pretty, strong-willed daughter, as Irish in looks and temper as Gerald O ' Hara, with the same blue eyes.

St Dunstan's Church, an Anglican parish church in Canterbury, possesses More's head, rescued by his beloved daughter Margaret Roper.

Along the way he is briefly ensnared by a cold hearted adventuress who wants him to marry her daughter and who informs him that his beloved Grace is not Mr. Nugent's daughter at all, but rather an illegitimate child!

" ( 1882 ), about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter.

This theme is most evident when Tom urges St. Clare to " look away to Jesus " after the death of St. Clare's beloved daughter Eva.

A widowed prince has a daughter, Zezolla ( the Cinderella figure ), who is tended by a beloved governess.

* King Roland, Vespa's father, dotes on his beloved daughter, but nonetheless forces her to marry the " last prince in the galaxy ".

* Aegle, daughter of Panopeus, who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne.

Hippolytus mytheme: Iole, daughter of the king of Oechalia, was beloved by Heracles, sacked her city, killed her family, and took her away by force as his concubine.

Scáthach's instruction of the young hero Cú Chulainn notably appears in Tochmarc Emire ( The Wooing of Emer ), an early Irish foretale to the great epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, in which Cú Chulainn is honour-bound to perform a number of tasks before he is found worthy to marry his beloved Emer, daughter of the chieftain Forgall Monach.

* As a beloved spirit son or daughter of Heavenly Parents, each person has a divine nature and destiny.

Upon hearing the news of his beloved wife's death, Shiva was furious that Daksha could so callously cause the harm of his ( Daksha's ) own daughter in so ignoble a manner.

Earlier, in 1885, Rogers had built a huge and modern ( for the times ) elementary school and, in 1893, a memorial to his beloved daughter, Millicent, in the form of an Italian-Renaissance palazzo that serves as the town's free public library to this day.

Hedin vowed that he would have Sváva, Eylimi's daughter, the beloved of his brother Helgi ; then such great grief seized him that he went forth on wild paths southward over the land, and found Helgi, his brother.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the novel is the premise that the " despicable " gossip spread by Hamilton which led to his death by Burr's bullet was that Burr had practiced incest with his beloved daughter, Theodosia.

These are brief melodic sessions which can express complaints against destiny, the injustice of heaven or exile to distant places, and sentiments such as the sorrow of a mother separated from her daughter, the sorrow of a lover torn from her / his beloved, etc.

The work's ending is usually interpreted as being a self-conscious farewell to the world, as it was composed following the death of his beloved daughter Maria Anna in 1907 and the diagnosis of his fatal heart disease.

Seven years after visiting Giza, André Thévet ( Cosmographie de Levant, 1556 ) described the Sphinx as " the head of a colossus, caused to be made by Isis, daughter of Inachus, then so beloved of Jupiter ".

Gwindor met there again his beloved, Finduilas daughter of King Orodreth, but she unwillingly fell in love with Túrin ; however, Túrin did not perceive this and held her in awe.

Hedin vowed that he would have Sváva, Eylimi's daughter, the beloved of his brother Helgi ; then such great grief seized him that he went forth on wild paths southward over the land, and found Helgi, his brother.

The Empress sympathized deeply with him and Alexander found her supportive when he lost his beloved natural daughter, Sophia.

* Honi: Hägar and Helga's beloved, beautiful, sweet, cheerful 16-year old daughter — dressed as a young Valkyrie with a winged helmet, metallic breastplate and a long skirt made of chainmail.

His beloved daughter Honi is engaged to a wimpy, untalented wastrel of a minstrel named Lute.