For more than 25 years Boris Christoff has enjoyed almost legendary renown as an operatic star in the grand manner: proud, imperious, larger than life. offstage and on. When he talks about his Art, it always has a capital ' A '.
These are extracts from a recording made in Rome in 1975 by a Canadian producer, KATI VITA. (First broadcast on cbc) (Boris Christoff is in Nielsen's Saul and David: tomorrow 2.10)