Tebaldi was natural Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi around Pesaro. Stricken by owning polio at the age of threesome, Tebaldi was unable to partake withwithin strenuous activities & instead became concerned in music. Within her early teens, she began researching music at a Conservatory of Parma. At age Xxii, Tebaldi manufactured her debut when Elena inside Boito's Mefistofele in Rovigo.

Her major breakthrough come inside 1946, when she auditioned inside Milan for Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini was favourably impressed, calling her "voce d'angelo" (angel voice). Tebaldi manufactured her La Scala debut that year at a concert which marked a reopening of the theater fallowing World War II. She sang a "Prayer" ("Dal tuo stellato soglio") from either Rossini's biblical opera, Mosè in Egitto, when well as a treble a share inside Verdi's Te Deum.

Tebaldi mass produced her Western debut when Aïda at the San Francisco Opera, followed soon when by her Metropolitan Opera debut on January 31, 1955, as Desdemona paired Mario del Monaco's Otello. She then began appearing regularly at a Met when Mimi around La bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Desdemonthe, Manon, and Violetta around a production of La Traviata created specially for her.

For a 1962/1963 year, Tebaldi convinced the director of the Met, Rudolf Bing, to stage a revival of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. a opera got non been staged since the turn of the century, however Bing was convinced that it would exist as a great profits for Tebaldi, & for Franco Corelli, who sang a role of Maurizio. Alas, Tebaldi was non within top vocal form. Alarmed, she took a baker's dozen-year hiatus from either the stage. She late returned when Mimi to nifty plaudit.

Tebaldi retired from either a stage around 1973 and from a concert hall within 1976. She spent a majority of her end of the world around Milan, however it was at her front yard, within San Marino, that she died at age 82.

Great deal has been mass produced of the supposed contention between Tebaldi & Maria Callas, who was as well active around Italy in a Fifties, however it appears to develop been above everthing the contention between the extremely partizan fans of the ii prima donna. Callas could keep close at hand fed a impression sustaining prematurely remarks to the click ("Comparing Tebaldi with me is just like comparing coke with champagne," she said it used to be that). When each move at a equivalent instance, them singers got super different voices, repertoires & temperaments. In any pack, in September 16, 1968, Callas went backstage after the performance of Adriana Lecouvreur to warmly congratulate Tebaldi, thereby dispelling any bad blood conclusively.