Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Argentina, July/August 1949. I recently sat in the great Teatro Colón, an opera house I'd long wanted to visit, a few weeks ago (September 2025): this was for a concert performance of Bellini's "I Puritani". I couldn't get the final cabaletta [“Ah! sento al mio bell’angelo”] of Elvira out of my head and have been listening to the fabulous Dame Joan Sutherland singing it ever since. (The opera premiere took place on 24 January 1835 in Paris.

Michelangeli in Buenos Aires 1949 La Nación, 29 July, 1949 After several postponements due to illness, the Italian concert pianist Arturo Michelangeli made his début before our public yesterday (Thursday 28th), offering his first piano recital at the Teatro Colón. This instrumentalist had been preceded by complimentary comments from European critics, which were justified at yesterday's performance, since there is no doubt that Michelangeli is a keyboard performer of notable m