Gabriella Tucci R.I.P.

Gabriella Tucci  passed away on July 11, 2020. She was very much a part of my opera education. I went to everything, listened, watched, asked questions. I've pulled images from my files beginning in 1964, not brilliant photography, many negatives scratched, but these are treasured memories.  First AIDA, Dec. 29, 1965  with Rita Gorr as Amneris and Anselmo Colzani as Amonasro.

LA BOHEME, Feb. 29, 1964 with Alicio Depaulis as Alcindoro, Frank Guerrara as Marcello and Franco Corelli as Rodolfo.

BOHEME. Oct. 23, 1965, with Lorenzo Alvary as Benoit, Jerome Hines as Colline,  Clifford Harvuot as Schnaurd, Gianni Raimondi as Rodolfo, and Sereni in shadow as Marcello

MADAM BUTTERFLY Jan. 1965, Sandor Konya as Pinkerton with Gabriella as Butterfly

Same as above with Norman Scott as the Bonze.

FALSTAFF, Mar. 6, 1964 with Rosalind Elias as Meg Page, Judith Raskin as Nanetta, Regina Resnik as Dame Quickly and Gabriella as Alice Ford.

Same as above, Raskin, Tucci, Resnik, Elias.

FAUST  Oct. 23, 1965 with Cesare Siepi as Mephistophele. Gabriella as Marguerita, and Nicolai Gedda as Faust

            Faust again, with Marcia Baldwin as Siebel and Robert Merrill as Valentin.

FAUST, final trio, Gabriella, Gedda and Siepi

F0RZA DEL DESTINO, Jan, 1965, curtain call as Leonore

After FORZA in dressing room, her husband, Leonardo Filoni in background

TROVATORE. Dec. 8, 1964, Leonore with Robert Merrill as DiLuna

TROVATORE Oct, 20, 1965   with John McCurdy as Ferrando, Robert Merrill as DiLuna, Gabriella and Flaviana Labo as Manrico

add Irene Dalis as Azucena

TRAVIATA, Sept. 1972, the last time I photographed Gabriella, Violetta with Robert Merrill as Germont

Traviata again with Jean Kraft as Flora

A fun image from April 1972, the BING GALA, a member of the Board, forgot his name, Fernando Corena, Gabriella, Anna Moffo, Placido Domingo, Grace Bumbry, Sir Rudolf Bing, Dorothy Kirsten, Leontyne Price, Leonie Rysanek, Irene Dalis, Loretta DiFranco, Batyah Godfrey and behind her Chris Mann. In window on left top is Eleanor Steber.
During these formative years I heard everything and learned about the music, vocal technique, staging, everything that is involved in what the audience witnesses. I look at the pictures from the past and can hear the music.  The memories are treasured.  To Gabriella's family and friends my heartfelt condolences.  Thank you, Gabriella, R.I.P.