
Tito Gobbi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1913-10-24
Day of Death
1984-03-05 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Tito Gobbi
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 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.
Known For
Acting
Otello
as Jago
(2007)
Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)
(1964)
Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
as Baron Scarpia
(1962)
Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
as Giacomo Puccini « Tosca, Atto II » extracts (9th February 1964)
(1958)
Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris
as Scarpia / Figaro (Baritone)
(1955)
Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
as Figaro
(1954)
House of Ricordi
as Cantante
(1954)
I Pagliacci
as Tonio
(1953)
Giuseppe Verdi
as Singer - baritone
(1952)
The Firebird
as Mario Vanni
(1950)
Soho Conspiracy
as Tito Gobbi
(1950)
La forza del destino
as Don Carlos
(1949)
The Glass Mountain
as Tito Gobbi
(1948)
Pagliacci
as Tonio/Silvio
(1948)
Mad About Opera
as Self
(1948)
First Opera Film Festival
as William Tell
(1947)
La signora dalle camelie
as Georg Germont (singing voice)
(1947)
L'elisir d'amore
as Belcore
(1947)
The Barber of Seville
as Figaro
(1947)
The Beautiful Days of King Murat
as Prince Castelli
(1946)
Rigoletto
as Rigoletto
(1946)
Before Him All Rome Trembled
as Marco
(1946)
O sole mio
as Giovanni
(1942)
Musica proibita
as Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi
(1937)
Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
as Troubadour Nino
Crew
(1978)
Tosca
Director, Production Design