Article Title
Keywords
Covent Garden opera, opera, London, Jussi Bjorling
Abstract
We first heard Jussi Bjorling in the autumn of 1937, but we had certainly heard of him before that. His first gramophone recordings, arias from Tosca, La fanciulla del West, La boheme, Aida and Rigoletto, had already been issued, and the advance publicity had spoken of "a new Caruso", a claim which led the great English critic, Ernest Newman, to comment: "Here lies as usual a press-agent". (This is said to be the wording of a famous inscription on a gravestone somewhere in the U.S.A.)
Recommended Citation
Rosenthal, Harold
(2006)
"Jussi Bjorling in London,"
Journal of the Jussi Björling Societies of the USA & UK: Vol. 15:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jussibjorlingsociety/vol15/iss1/13