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at the height of the tenor's powers in 1939. This performance was remastered in 2001 and released on CD by Naxos
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The political turmoil of the late 1930s, culminating in the outbreak of the six-year-long Second World War, restricted
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Malipiero possessed a clear, bright, well-trained voice with a slightly husky timbre. Italian music critics and audiences of the 1930-1960 period praised his singing style, regarding it as belonging to the elegant 'old school' of
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schedule of performances wound down in the 1950s and he began to assume character parts from the middle of that decade onwards. He retired in 1962 after a final appearance at the
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voice soon attracted the attention of impresarios, and he was invited to sing at principal venues throughout Italy, including the
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who enjoyed a prominent career on stage and on radio in his native Italy during the 1930s and 1940s.
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