Carnegie Hall was in a sweat bath of nostalgia: far-famed Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli (pronounced jeel-yee), 65, returned for his first U.S. appearances in 16 years, and presumably his last. This ...

There is a moment in Court Theatre`s ”The Gigli Concert” in which the production suddenly comes together in something like the sublime truth that the play tries to reach. Tony Mockus Sr., portraying a ...

Singers include Beniamino Gigli, Gottlob Frick and Nicolai Gedda, Australian sopranos Nance Grant and Gladys Moncrieff, and Tano Ferendinos, a tenor popular in London in the 1940s.

Once upon a time, there were numerous singers who fit the description “lyric tenor” – a voice type characterized more by tonal sweetness and refined musical taste than by dynamic, balcony-rattling ...