The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson in a popular operatic programme with Dino Borgioli (tenor)
Dino Borgioli , star of this evening's presentation, is internationally famous as a concert singer, and can sing with equal accomplishment in five languages.
He was bom in Florence in 1896, and studied under Giachetti, the famous teacher of bel canto. He first made his name when he sang in I Puritani, and subsequently established his reputation by appearances in Favorita, Sonambula, Don Pas quale, The Barber of Seville, Susanna's Secret, and other operas. He made his name at Covent Garden in Manon and La Traviata.
Borgioli has sung regularly at
Salzburg under Toscanini and Bruno Walter , and makes regular appearances at Glyndebourne, where this year he is going to sing in Don Giovanni. He has sung in most of the world's famous opera houses, and has just returned from a successful tour of the U.S.A. and Australia.