Titta Ruffo
Titta Ruffo , born as Ruffo Titta Cafiero , (born June 9, 1877 in Pisa , † July 5, 1953 in Florence ) was an Italian opera singer ( baritone ). According to Goruma, together with Enrico Caruso and Rosa Ponselle , he is counted among the ten greatest "singing miracles" of all time.
Life
Ruffo initially worked in his father's forge. When he was certified at the age of eighteen that he had a beautiful voice, he went to Rome and sang for the well-known singing teacher Venceslao Persichini. He accepted him as a student at the renowned Italian music academy Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Ruffo made his debut in 1898 at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome in the opera Lohengrin . He has made numerous guest appearances on Italian stages as well as in South America and Russia. In 1903 he sang in Covent Garden in London for an entire season. In 1905 he sang in the Paris premiere of the opera Siberia in the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. In 1922 he sang in the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Ruffo sang all the classical roles such as Figaro in the Barber of Seville , Don Carlo in Ernani or Tonio in Bajazzo . After 37 years on the opera stage, he ended his career in 1935. As an opponent of the Mussolini regime, he was ostracized at that time, and his socialist brother-in-law Giacomo Matteotti was murdered by the fascists. Ruffo's old recordings still exist, some of which are newly published as CD.
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2539 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
- Andrew Farkas: Titta Ruffo: An Anthology , Publisher: Greenwood Press; Reprint February 23, 1984, ISBN 0-313-23783-2
- Michael Jahn : Caruso and Ruffo in "Rigoletto" (1906) , in: Verdi and Wagner in Vienna 4 . Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2015, pp. 43–62. ISBN 978-3-85450-325-5
Web links
- Works by and about Titta Ruffo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography (English) with numerous photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide to "Travel, Countries, Culture and Education, Science and Teaching" on the Internet
- ↑ http://www.goruma.de/Staedte/P/Pisa/bekannte_lösungen.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruffo, Titta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cafiero, Ruffo Titta (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pisa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1953 |
| Place of death | Florence |