Tito Gobbi
Birthday
1913/10/24
Day of death
1984/03/05 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Also know as
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Biography
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 ope...Read more
Acting
(1947) La signora dalle camelie
as Georg Germont (singing voice)
(1947) The Beautiful Days of King Murat
as Prince Castelli
(1937) Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
as Troubadour Nino
(1954) House of Ricordi
as Cantante
(1962) Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
as Giacomo Puccini « Tosca, Atto II » extracts (9th February 1964)
(1952) The Firebird
as Mario Vanni
(1949) The Glass Mountain
as Tito Gobbi
(1966) Otello
as Jago
(2007) Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) La forza del destino
as Don Carlos
(1946) O sole mio
as Giovanni
(1954) I Pagliacci
as Tonio
(1947) L'elisir d'amore
as Belcore
(1948) Pagliacci
as Tonio/Silvio
(1948) First Opera Film Festival
as William Tell
(1946) Rigoletto
as Rigoletto
(1946) Before Him All Rome Trembled
as Marco
(1948) Mad About Opera
as Self
(1947) The Barber of Seville
as Figaro
(1942) Musica proibita
as Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi
(1950) Soho Conspiracy
as Tito Gobbi
(1953) Giuseppe Verdi
as Singer - baritone
(1964) Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
as Baron Scarpia
(1955) Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
as Figaro
(1958) Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)
as Scarpia / Figaro (Baritone)
(1972) Schöne Stimmen
as Self