Ferruccio Tagliavini [SEP] voice type
Ferruccio Tagliavini
Ferruccio Tagliavini (; 14 August 191328 January 1995) 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 lyric-opera 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.
Career.
Tagliavini was born in Cavazzoli, Reggio Emilia and studied in Parma with Italo Brancucci and in Florence and with Amedeo Bassi, a well-
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She can be heard in a few Cetra recordings; "Don Giovanni", opposite Giuseppe Taddei, Italo Tajo, Cesare Valletti, "Un ballo in maschera", opposite Ferruccio Tagliavini and Giuseppe Valdengo, "Aida", opposite Franco Corelli, Miriam Pirazzini and Giangiacomo Guelfi.
When the old Metropolitan Opera House closed in 1966 and the company relocated to Lincoln Center, Verna decided to take the position of Head of the Voice Department at the University of Washington School of Music in 1969. She retired