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benjiamino gigli:March 20th, 1890 – November 30th, 1957. Regarded – quite rightly – as one of the greatest tenors in recent history, I first heard this recording from Bizet’s “Les Pecheurs Des Perles” (1863) on a scratchy 78rpm – slotted somewhere in between the hits of Roy Orbison – as a child. It remains one