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DIVA

Opera queens everywhere are getting out their black armbands and old LP's for the tribute parties: Renata Tebaldi, 82, Soprano With 'Voice of an Angel,' Dies.

I never belonged to the OQ battallions myself but I have some friends who do and I am thinking about sympathy cards.

Tebaldi was more famous after she stopped singing than while she did. Her actual singing had technical flaws. But, ohhhh, the charisma. The fruity tones.

I once endured a band by band comparison with Tebaldi and, was it Callas? It was a rainy day and I had nought to do and got trapped. I think it was on a 'date' of sorts. The only one, I am sure.

This is one of those situations where a good friend of a good friend shifts off the mortal coil and so there is a sort of induced sadness. End of an era.