Ferruccio Tagliavini Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavazzoli, Reggio Emilia, 14 August 1913 – Reggio Emilia, 28 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the exceptional beauty of his voice, but he did not sustain his great early promise across the full span of his career. Tagliavini studied in Parma with Italo Brancucci and in Florence and perplexingly with Amedeo Bassi, a well-known dramatic Verismo and Wagnerian Italian tenor of the pre-World War I era whose... MORE

Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavazzoli, Reggio Emilia, 14 August 1913 – Reggio Emilia, 28 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the exceptional beauty of his voice, but he did not sustain his great early promise across the full span of his career. Tagliavini studied in Parma with Italo Brancucci and in Florence and perplexingly with Amedeo Bassi, a well-known dramatic Verismo and Wagnerian Italian tenor of the pre-World War I era whose voice (as recorded) could not be more unlike Tagliavini's (see M.Scott Record of Singing 1978). It was also in Florence that he made his professional debut in 1938 as Rodolfo in La bohème. He swiftly gained recognition as one of the leading tenore di grazia of his time in operas such as Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale, La Sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Manon, Werther, L'amico Fritz and L'arlesiana. Debuts at many of the world's major opera houses ensued. They included: La Scala, Milan, in 1942; the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, in 1946; the Metropolitan LESS