[WWTD]

Wow,

Keepitreal and I are on the same page here. You should also check out the one I linked - it is what most people consider to be Bjorling’s best - a 1944 radio broadcast.

Still, the 1960 recording Keepitreal linked, made the year Bjorling died, is a marvel to hear as well. With Birgit Nilsson as Turandot and Renate Tebaldi as Lui, in addition to Bjorling’s Calaf, it is my favorite recording of the complete opera.

[Tenniel2]

Once upon a time the American actress Shelley Winters was in Milan and chanced to pass by La Scala an hour or two after a performance. Fresh snow had just stopped falling and the house was dark when Mr. Bjorling came out the stage door, quite alone. She reports that he gazed over the empty moonlit piazza and then, apparently unaware of anyone's presence, quietly sang E lucevan le stelle.

True or not, it's a major-goosebump story...