Ebe Stignani, "La'amour est un oiseau rebelle," (Italian)

From the album, Omaggio Alla Stagione Lirica, Arena de Verona 2006. The great Italian dramatic mezzo (1903-1974) made her debut in San Carlo in 1925, in the role of Amneris. Invited by Toscanini to sing at La Scala, she made La Scala her artistic home for most of her career. She did not do a great deal of traveling. She sang in the US in San Francisco and in England at Covent Garden but she never sang at the Met. Her voice was big, rich and quite broad in range.