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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.
Dicitencello a 'sta cumpagna vosta Ch'aggio perduto 'o suonno e 'a fantasia Ca 'a penzo sempre, Che é tutta 'a vita mia... I' nce 'o vvulesse dicere, Ma nun nce 'o ssaccio di! A' voglio bbene, A' voglio bbene assaie, Dicitencello, vuie Ca nun m' 'a scordo maie! E''na passiona Cchiù forte 'e 'na catena, Ca me turmente ll'anema E nun me fa campá * * * * Na lacrema lucente v' è caduta... Diciteme 'nu poco a che penzate? Cu' st'uocchie doce Vuie sola me guardate... Levámmece 'sta maschera, Dicimmo 'a veritá: A' voglio bbene, A' voglio bbene assaie, Dicitencello, vuie Ca nun m' 'a scordo maie! E''na passiona Cchiù forte 'e 'na catena, Ca me turmente ll'anema
Tito Gobbi interpreta Figaro e canta "Largo al Factotum" dal Barbiere di Siviglia di Gioachino Rossini. Film, 1955.
Tito Gobbi as Tonio in a 1946 film version of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. For a free English translation, please see the following: http://operainenglish.blogspot.com/2011/11/si-puo-pagliacci_29.html
Tosca Puccini, full duo available here http://www.medici.tv/#/tito-gobbi-maria-callas-tosca Giacomo Puccini Tosca Second Act duo Scarpia and Tosca Maria Callas (Italian operatic soprano) Tito Gobbi (Italian operatic baritone) Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris Georges Sébastian conductor Recorded in 1958 © Idéale Audience / IMG Artists / BBC Full archive concert including Tosca full Second Act available on www.medici.tv #1 in classical music
Tito Gobbi in the Te Deum scene ("Tosca", Puccini)
Verdi. La traviata Dir. Tullio Serafin
Neapolitan song by Francesco Paolo Tosti. From the Swedish movie Firebird, 1952. You can download the movie from here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/3ruya7li9uwp/Eldfageln.1952.Gobbi.Gedda.mp4
Rigoletto, ópera en tres actos de Giuseppe Verdi, con libreto en italiano de Francesco Maria Piave, basado en la obra teatral Le Roi s'amuse, de Víctor Hugo. Fue estrenada en 1851 en el teatro La Fenice de Venecia. Se trata de un drama de pasión, engaño, amor filial y venganza que tiene como protagonista a Rigoletto, el bufón jorobado de la corte del Ducado de Mantua. Cortigiani vil raza dannata pertenece a la tercera escena del Acto III. En el palacio ducal (ya habiendo raptado a Gilda) se hallan conversando Marullo, Ceprano, Borsa y otros cortesanos, cuando entra Rigoletto (Tito Gobbi, barítono italiano, 1915-1984) canturreando y disimulando su dolor. Luego aparece Gilda (Renata Scotto, soprano lírico-spinto italiana, 1934) y le cuenta a su padre que fue ultrajada... Grabación de la ...
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