Titta Ruffo
Titta Ruffo (9 June 1877 – 5 July 1953), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he [Ruffo] bawled away..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff. Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard (see Pleasants, cited below). Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo "a genius".
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baritone
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Giuseppe De Luca
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Victor Maurel
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Verdi
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Iago
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Walter Legge
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Titta Ruffo
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1877-06-09T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
9 June 1877
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1953-07-05T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
5 July 1953
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