Bjoerling

Leonard Warren is potent in the title role, Bidú Sayão is a girlish, nuanced Gilda, and Jussi Bjoerling — appearing at the Met for the first time after World War II — plays the Duke as if he has everything to prove.

It has a hushed elegance, especially in Jussi Bjoerling’s performance, that turns the third-act “Nile Scene” into an intensely immediate experience, as if you’re overhearing the action.

The country aims to double exports to about $310 billion by 2015, Trade Minister Ewa Bjoerling said in an interview in Stockholm on Feb. 1.

Others hear echoes of Jussi Bjoerling's silvery refinement.

At home he chimed in with the likes of Gigli, Tito Scinpa, Bjoerling and Di Stefano on the records collected by his father, a baker and gifted amateur tenor.