1929 TOTI DAL MONTE Linda di Chamounix/ MIGNON POLONAISE Io son Titania 78

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Great Italian Coloratura Toti Dal Monte is little known in the US (sang only for 3 times at the MEt). Her 1939 complete Butterfly with Gigli (never released in the US) deserves utter admiration.

Here is what my trusted Kutsch-Riemens Grosses Saengerlexikon has to say (translation is mine).

The floating lightness of her tonal values, the exactitude and brilliance in the execution of the most difficult coloratura passages, all that makes Toti dal Monte one of the absolutely greatest Coloratura actrices, whose voice has been preserved on record.

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix O LUce di quest Anima/ MIGNON POLONAISE IO SON TITANIA

.w an amazing trill on the high F

12" electric 78 rpm record:

Condition: EXCELLENT clost to pristine faint scuffs,  plays very quiet light crackle

A GREAT COPY

Antonietta Meneghel (27 June 1893 – 26 January 1975), better known by her stage name Toti Dal Monte, was a celebrated Italian operatic soprano with a sweet and limpid lyric voice. She was a favourite artist of the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini. She is perhaps best remembered today for her performance as Cio-cio-san in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly because she recorded this role complete in 1939 with the star tenor Beniamino Gigli as Pinkerton. Cio-cio-san is a much heavier part than Dal Monte would have undertaken normally, and her interpretation is notable for its youthful-sounding freshness, which fits with the character's age.

CareerBorn in Mogliano Veneto, in the Province of Treviso, she made her debut at La Scala, Milan at the age of 17 as Biancofiore in Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini. She was an immediate success, and her clear ‘nightingale-like’ voice came to be highly appreciated throughout the world. Her best-known roles included the bel canto parts of Amina (in Bellini’s La sonnambula), Lucia (in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor) and Gilda (in Verdi’s Rigoletto). In 1922 she performed several parts opposite the tenor Carlo Broccardi at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; including Cio-cio-san, Gilda, and the title heroine in Alfredo Catalani's La Wally.

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, the diva Nellie Melba engaged her to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia. She proved a popular and critical success on the tour, and there was no rivalry between the ageing Melba and the much younger Dal Monte. Rather they threw bouquets after each other's performances. In 1928, on her third visit to Australia, Dal Monte married the tenor Enzo de Muro Lomanto in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

The following year she sang the role of Rosalina, which was specifically written for her, in the world premiere of Umberto Giordano's Il re on the 12 January at La Scala.

She retired from the operatic stage in 1945. However, she continued to work in the theatre (as well as to make the occasional recording) and appeared in a number of films, of which the best known is perhaps her last, Enrico Maria Salerno’s Anonimo veneziano, a 1970 story about a musician at La Fenice. She was also active as a singing teacher. Among her notable pupils was Canadian soprano Dodi Protero and American sopranos Dolores Wilson and Gianna D'Angelo.

“La Toti” died at the age of 81, in Pieve di Soligo, as a result of circulatory disorders. She left an extensive legacy of 78-rpm recordings.

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