Renata Tebaldi: The New York Farewell Recital (1976) (CD)

Renata Tebaldi's New York farewell concert was a deeply emotional affair. The soprano's New York fans were among her most ardent and Tebaldi considered the city her second home. Carnegie Hall was packed for the event and Tebaldi gave her fans a night to treasure. No one who was present at the concert will ever forget Tebaldi walking the width of the stage while singing her final encore as the audience surged to the proscenium to get as close to her as possible.
[1995, Mono, 61 minutes]

Program
Sarti: Lungi dal caro bene
Scarlatti: Se Florindo è fedele
Rossini: Anzoleta avanti la regata
Bellini: Vanne, o rosa fortunata
Verdi: Ave Maria
Rossini: L'Invito
Gluck: Divinità infernal (Divinités du Styx), from Alceste
Puccini: Donde lieta uscì, from La Bohème
Wolf-Ferrari: O miei sospir
Wolf-Ferrari: Preghiera
Wolf-Ferrari: Come tu mi fai rabbia
Resphighi: Ballata
Puccini: È l'uccellino
Cimara: Stornello
Denza: Se
Buzzi-Peccia: Colombetta
Donizetti: Me voglio fa 'na casa
Puccini: Quando m'en vo', from La Bohème
Buzzi-Peccia: El morenito
Danny Boy (traditional)
Lehár: Tu che m'hai preso il cuor (Dein ist mein ganzes Herz), from Das Land des Lächelns
Tosti: 'A vucchella

Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
(Recorded live, February 19, 1976)