[1] In 1952, she won the competition of Spoleto, and appeared at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino alongside Beniamino Gigli.
[2] In 260 appearances with the Met between 29 October 1960 and 25 December 1972, she was heard in twenty roles, including a record eleven of Verdi's: ranked in decreasing order of the number of times that she assumed them, they were Aida, Leonora in Il trovatore, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Violetta in La traviata, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Puccini's Tosca, Desdemona in Otello, Mimì in La Bohème, Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, Puccini's Turandot, Leonora in La forza del destino, Elizabeth de Valois in Don Carlo, Gilda in Rigoletto, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Luisa Miller and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen.
[3][6] Her performance of the final trio from Faust with Nicolai Gedda and Jerome Hines was the penultimate item in the gala that concluded the Met's time in its first theatre on 16 April 1966.
[1] A versatile singer and an accomplished actress, Tucci was able to tackle a wide range of operas from the bel canto of Bellini's I puritani to verismo works.
In February 1968, she sang in performances of Verdi's Requiem, with George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and chorus, in what was described as "a vibrant quartet" with Janet Baker, Pierre Duval and Martti Talvela.