...belongs to today's birthday girl the divine La Tebaldi, one of the greatest opera singers of all time, and long-time rival to Callas!
Quite a splendid 'do it was, too, in all its guises:
Her outfits veered on the OTT, too:
...and here is the great diva herself, in a brilliant duet with the "Prince of Tenors":
So, let us join her compatriots Regine Crespin and Rita Reznik - and raise our glasses in a toast: "The higher the hair, the closer to God!"
Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi (1st February 1922 – 19th December 2004)
Her big-swoops hairdos made sense, for making a statement that reached the back of the Opera Hall. So, that doesn't excuse my mother and her friends in the 60s who didn't need to be seen from afar!
ReplyDeleteEnormous hair was quite the thing for ladies of a certain era, wasn't it? Jx
DeleteI adore her voice.
ReplyDeleteThere will never be another Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi
There aren't enough babies called any of those names these days. Jx
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