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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 ...

‘In these few words you have the description of the whole situation’, says Tito Gobbi. No – not in an aria, but in the opening words of, on the face of it, casual banter between the Duke of Mantua and ...

It is difficult to credit now, but when in 1965 Tito Gobbi directed a production at Covent Garden of Simon Boccanegra – one of Verdi’s most magnificent achievements – the work was little-known here ...