Biography
The name Tito Gobby is in the first rows of the Great Baritons of the 20th century. The Italian performed the world opera repertoire in all the diversity of its emotional psychological spectrum. The singer called the voice tool in which the greatest strength is laid, capable of blinding the soul. And his creative biography of Gobby proved it: his speeches were frantically applauded the halls of the whole world for ten years.Childhood and youth
Opera singer was born on October 24, 1913 in Bassano del Grappa, Province of Vicenza. Engineer Giovanni Gobby, together with his wife Enrika Weiss, originating from the Austrian kind, brought up five children, the third of which was Tito. The boy was painful - suffered from asthma, and the family paid special attention to strengthening his health. He early began to engage in physical exertion and eventually did not just get rid of the disease, but turned into an athlete, which demonstrated success in mountaineering, skiing and cycling.
The child showed talent for singing from the young age, but it did not affect the choice of profession. After graduating from school, Gobby went to the University of Padua, where he began to study the right. However, the lawyer of the young man was not destined to become. Strong, the sonorous voice of the guy has increasingly addressed attention, and family friend Baron Agostino Zanchtta offered Tito to get a musical education.
For this, the guy in 1932 moved to Rome, where he began to learn from the famous Sicilian tenor Julio Crimi. At first, Gobby sang a bass, but under the leadership of the master switched to Bariton, who made him famous. Crimi became a native man for singer and even stopped taking money from the student for her lessons when the family began to experience financial difficulties. With the assistance of Tito's teacher, he began to learn to play the piano, met prominent Italian composers and conduits, as well as with the future wife.
Personal life
With the young talented pianist Tilda Gobby met in the house of Julio Cream. The daughter of the musicologist Raphael de Rensis possessed an impeccable musical hearing and taste. She agreed to accompaniate the novice singer at his first auditions. The girl began to help Tito in the formation of a opera repertoire and taught to play the piano.Young people loved each other and in 1937 became her husband and wife. The only daughter of Cecilia was born in marriage, which subsequently headed the "Tito Gobby Association" - an organization holding the heritage of the father's legacy and preserving his contribution to the world opera.
The singer behaved about his personal life and work in the book "My Life", written in 1979.
Opera
The debut on the opera scene took place in 1935. By that time, Tito was listed in the theater as COMPRIMANO - the role of the second plan roles. The singer had to learn the dozens of batches to be able to replace someone from the artists from the sickness at any time. The work of Dubler presented a rich experience, but the young baritone sought to get out of the shadow to the fore. The victory was helped in a contest in Vienna, where critics and journalists were talking loudly about the Italian talent.
Since the late 1930s, the gobby began to enter the scene of the main theaters of Italy, including "La Scala". At the same time, he began to film, where a man was useful not only a wonderful voice, but also an athletic physique.
The first film in the career was "Condotor", released in 1937. Later, the filmography was replenished with dozens of ribbons, among which "Chio-Chio-San", "Rigoletto", "Love Drink", "Payans". In the last two shooting partners, Charming Gina Lollobrigid became.
Already in the early 1940s it became obvious that Tito was an outstanding phenomenon in Italian vocal art. The spectrum of its voice and dramatic gifts allowed with the same persuasiveness and the penetration to fulfill the arias in classical operations ("Traviata", "Falstaf", "Don Juan") and popular Naples songs ("Tell me, girls, your girlfriend", "Return to Sorrento" ).
The pearls of the repertoire of the Italian Stated Aria Yago in "Othello" Giuseppe Verdi, Gianni Skisci in the Opera Jachacom Puccini eponymous, Figaro in the "Seville Barber" Joakkino Rossini. Gobby had a gift to feel a partner, and therefore achieved heights in ensemble performance. His partners in the scene became the outstanding vocalists of the 20th century Mario Del Monaco and Maria Callas. The duet with the latter in the production of "Toski" in "Covent Garden" has become a cultural event. Photos and videos of their joint speeches, documenting the triumph of opera art, are preserved.
Death
The last years of the Italian dedicated to directed and teaching. He felt the duty to convey to the young generation that he was lucky to learn more than 40 years of career. The man believed that the rich experience he had accumulated should not disappear with his departure. Gobby conducted master classes in the United States and Europe, which were going to impressive groups. Shortly before the death of Tito graduated from the book "World of the Italian Opera", where he summarized his experience and outlined observations of singe art.The singer was not March 5, 1984. Details and cause of death Biographers do not disclose. It is known that the performer in Rome died and buried at Campo Berano cemetery, located around the ancient Catholic Church of San Lorenzo-Fori-Le Mura.
Posthumously in 1987, the gobby included in the Hall of Glory "Grammy" for "longing", performed with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano in 1953.
Discography
- 1950 - "Don Juan"
- 1953 - "Tosca"
- 1954 - "Don Carlos"
- 1955 - "Traviata"
- 1955 - Rigoletto
- 1956 - "Falstaff"
- 1957 - "Seville Ciry"
- 1958 - "Gianni Skisci"
- 1960 - "Othello"
- 1963 - "Marriage Figaro"
- 1969 - "Fedor"