They don’t make ’em like this any more. Nor should they, really, as performing styles have changed. But as an example of what increasingly seems a golden age of Verdi-singing, this is almost as good as it gets. Even the less exalted names, Tucci and Protti (he so dull in the studio, thrilling live), show just why they were so popular at the time...The black-and-white picture is often fuzzy, the camera angles primitive, the production values antiquated, but here is a precious document demonstrating full-blooded Italian opera in its last years.