Ferruccio Tagliavini

Ferruccio Tagliavini 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 lyricopera 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 was born in Cavazzoli, Reggio Emilia and studied in Parma with Italo Brancucci and in Florence and with Amedeo Bassi, a wellknown dramatic verismo and Wagnerian Italian tenor of the preWorld War I era whose voice could not be more unlike Tagliavinis . It was also in Florence that he made his professional debut in 1938 as Rodolfo in La bohme.

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