1913-10-24 Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Tito Gobbi (24 October 1913 – 5 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's La sonnambula and quickly appeared in Italy major opera houses. By the time he retired in 1979 he had acquired a repertoire of almost 100 operatic roles. They ranged from Rossini's Barber through Donizetti and the standard Verdi and Puccini baritone roles to Alban Berg's Wozzeck. He had a worldwide career as operatic baritone, appearing in (or recording the singing role) for over 25 films and, from the mid-1960s onward, was the stage director for about ten different operas which were given close to 35 productions throughout Europe and North America, including a significant number in Chicago for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Gobbi and Tilda had a daughter, Cecilia, who now runs the "Associazione Musicale Tito Gobbi", an organization devoted to preserving and celebrating the record of her father's contribution to opera. He was also the brother-in-law of one of his famous colleagues at Covent Garden, the Bulgarian-born bass, Boris Christoff. Gobbi retired in 1979 and died in Rome in 1984, aged 70.
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Maria Callas singt Tosca, Akt 2 | Baron Scarpia | 2020-12-02 |
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Maria Callas: Toujours - Paris 1958 | Self - Baritone | 2015-10-05 |
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Callas Assoluta | Self (archive footage) | 2007-12-20 |
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Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964 | 1962-11-04 | |
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Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro | 1955-07-29 |
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I Pagliacci | Tonio | 1954-09-24 |
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Casa Ricordi | Cantante | 1954-12-01 |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Singer - baritone | 1953-12-22 |
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Eldfågeln | Mario Vanni | 1952-08-11 |
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Soho Conspiracy | Tito Gobbi | 1950-10-01 |
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La forza del destino | Don Carlos | 1950-01-24 |
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The Glass Mountain | Tito Gobbi | 1949-03-09 |
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Follie per l'opera | Self | 1948-08-10 |
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First Opera Film Festival | William Tell | 1948-05-15 |
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Pagliacci | Tonio/Silvio | 1948-12-02 |
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Les beaux jours du roi Murat | Prince Castelli | 1947-05-13 |
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La signora dalle camelie | Georg Germont (singing voice) | 1947-12-22 |
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Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro | 1947-05-05 |
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L'elisir d'amore | Belcore | 1947-01-31 |
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Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma | Marco | 1946-10-02 |
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Rigoletto | Rigoletto | 1946-01-01 |
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O sole mio | Giovanni | 1946-01-07 |
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Musica proibita | Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi | 1942-10-22 |
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Condottieri | Troubadour Nino | 1937-01-01 |
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Otello | Jago |
