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Riccardo Stracciari (1875-1955)
Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950)
studio portrait
profile
profile
smiling
standing
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
as Germont in La Traviata
as Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale
as Figaro
again as Figaro
as Scarpia in Tosca
and as Zurga, with Enrico Caruso as
Nadir, in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers
Titta Ruffo (1877-1953)
as Cristoforo Colombo, 1909
as Escamillo
thinking
with a diamond stickpin
with a pearl stickpin
dapper, as always
reading the newspaper
reading the newspaper
studio portrait with moustache
and aboard the Augustus, 1929
Apollo Granforte (1886-1975)
Vicent Ballester (1887-1927)
and as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
Heinrich Schlusnus (1888-1952)
a studio portrait
and as Rigoletto
Friedrich Schorr (1888-1953)
and in costume
Renato Zanelli (before 1924, as a baritone)
(1892-1935)
Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960)
as a young man
in a three-piece suit
serious
smiling
smiling
smiling
arms folded, with a fur hat
checking over a score at the piano, 1934
with a guitar
as the Emperor Jones
as Scarpia
as Simon Boccanegra
as Ford in Falstaff
as Iago
again as Iago
as Tonio in Pagliacci
as Neri in Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe
in the film "Merry Mount"
in the 1930 film "New Moon"
again in "New Moon"
with Grace Moore
again with Grace Moore
and with his son
Willi Domgraf Fassbaender
(1897-1978)
in costume
and in costume
Carlo Tagliabue (1898-1978)
and as Wolfram
Nelson Eddy (1901-1967)
a studio portrait
a studio portrait
smiling in a striped suit
sitting on a bench
and with Jeanette MacDonald
Alexander Svéd (1906-1979)
Igor Gorin (1908-1982)
Walter Cassel (1910-2000)
Cesare Bardelli (1910-2000)
as Amonasro
and as Scarpia
Leonard Warren (1911-1960)
smiling
smiling
in profile
in formal attire
outdoors
as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
again as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
as Simon Boccanegra
as Falstaff
as Iago with Mario del Monaco as Otello
again as Iago with Mario del Monaco as Otello
as Scarpia with Dorothy Kirsten as Tosca
as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, with
Marian Anderson as Ulrica
and with Renata Tebaldi, Marian Anderson,
and Jan Peerce
Pavel Lisitsian (1911-2004)
and in Faust
Tito Gobbi (1913-1984)
as William Tell
as Falstaff
as Iago in Otello
again as Iago
as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
in Simon Boccanegra
again as Simon Boccanegra
as Don Giovanni
as Tonio in Pagliacci
as Scarpia
as Michele in Il Tabarro
in costume, looking suspicious
as a young man
again as a young man
with a little smile
taking in the skyline
lighting up
with his dog
as Iago, with Mario del Monaco as Otello
as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
again as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
and as Figaro with Maria Callas as Rosina
in the Barber of Seville
Gino Bechi (1913-1993)
smiling, different hat, different tie
(photo courtesy of Emy Scicluna - Malta)
elegant jacket and tie
as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
as Amonasro in Aida
and in Un Ballo in Maschera
Giuseppe Taddei (1916-2010)
smiling
as Scarpia, sneering
again as Scarpia
again as Scarpia
and in costume
Robert Merrill (1917-2004)
as a young man
another big smile
another smile
another smile
relaxing with the paper on a lawn chair
rehearsing
wearing a striped suit
in black tie, enjoying a drink
in black tie, smiling
in white tie
cigarette ad
singing the National Anthem
as Germont in La Traviata
again as Germont
as Germont in La Traviata, with Anna Moffo
as Violetta
looking treacherous as Iago
as Rodrigo
as Amonasro
as Rigoletto
in Faust
as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
as Escamillo in Carmen
again as Escamillo in Carmen
again as Escamillo in Carmen
as Marcello in La Bohème
with Licia Albanese
with Eileen Farrell and Franco Corelli
and with Jussi Bjoerling
Anselmo Colzani (1918-2006)
and with Renata Tebaldi in Adriana Lecouvreur
Sesto Bruscantini (1919-2003)
Gérard Souzay (1920-2004)
Ettore Bastianini (1922-1967)
as Figaro in the Barber of Seville
again as The Barber of Seville
in Il Tabarro
again in Il Tabarro
in La Bohème
again in La Bohème
in La Forza del Destino
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
again as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
again as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
as Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chénier
in La Favorita
as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
as Poliuto
as Escamillo in Carmen
in costume
a studio portrait
smiling
another studio portrait
again in a studio portrait
again in a studio portrait (photo courtesy
of Francesco Speroni)
as Germont with Maria Callas as Violetta in
La Traviata
backstage with Giuseppe Di Stefano after
a performance of Un Ballo in Maschera
with Franco Corelli
and with Antonietta Stella
Cornell MacNeil (1922-2011)
in Ernani
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
and as Tonio
and in costume
Sir Geraint Evans (1922-1992)
as Falstaff
and again as Falstaff
Giangiacomo Guelfi (1924-2012)
and in William Tell
Gabriel Bacquier (1924- )
Rolando Panerai (1924- )
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(1925-2012)
in Falstaff
as Mandryka
in costume
in costume
in costume
in costume
dressed informally
with a moustache and fur-trimmed coat
with a cigarette
in color
in black
with a black bowtie
and with Gerald Moore
Louis Quilico (1925-2000)
smiling
as Falstaff
in Un Ballo in Maschera
and in costume
Mario Sereni (1928-2015)
in costume
as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
as Germont in La Traviata
and as Gérard in Andrea Chénier
Hermann Prey (1929-1998)
as Wolfram
as Beckmesser
as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
again as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
smiling
studio portrait
studio portrait
and another studio portrait
Piero Cappuccilli (1929-2005)
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
(photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
in Simon Boccanegra
(photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
as Tonio in Pagliacci
(photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
and signing autographs
(photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
sample of his voice (audio promo)
Eberhard Wächter (1929-1992)
as Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress
as the Posa in Don Carlo
and as Amfortas
John Shirley-Quirk (1931-2014)
Ingvar Wixell (1931-2011)
(photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)
as Rigoletto (photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)
and singing (photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)
Sherrill Milnes (1935- )
as a young man
in a patterned shirt
in a turtleneck
closeup
handsome
studio portrait
smiling
in black tie
with a crown
as Don Giovanni
in Pagliacci
as Athanael in Thaïs
as Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West
as Scarpia in Tosca
again as Scarpia in Tosca
again as Scarpia in Tosca
as Germont in La Traviata
as Rigoletto
as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
as Simon Boccanegra
as Miller in Luisa Miller
as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
as Iago
as Iago with Plácido Domingo as Otello
with Renata Scotto in Macbeth
and as Scarpia, with Francesco Speroni as
Roberti (photo courtesy of Francesco Speroni)
sample of his voice (audio promo)
Renato Bruson (1936- )
as Carlo in La Forza del Destino
as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
and as Iago, with José Cura as Otello
José Van Dam (1940- )
in a relaxed mood
smiling
an informal portrait
another informal portrait
at the piano
portrait by Peretti
with conductor, Jean-Claude Casadesus
in a duet with Jean-Claude Casadesus
with his accompanist, Dalton Baldwin
with his dog
and he even has his own postage stamp
Justino Diaz (1940- )
serious
as Iago in Verdi's Otello
as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra
and in Carmen, with Grace Bumbry
Leo Nucci (1942- )
as Rigoletto
again as Rigoletto
and in costume
Sir Thomas Allen (1944- )
smiling
with Ruth Ann Swenson in Don Pasquale
and with Simone Alaimo in Don Pasquale
Juan Pons (1946- )
smiling
three-quarter portrait
as Hérode in Hérodiade
and in costume
Sergei Leiferkuss (1946- )
Thomas Hampson (1955- )
in white tie
casually dressed
as Don Giovanni
as Marcello in La Bohème
and with Frederica Von Stade
Gino Quilico (1955- )
and in costume
Rodney Gilfry (1959- )
as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire
in The Merry Widow
as Billy Budd
and again as Billy Budd
Mark Delavan (1959- )
and as Falstaff
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962- )
as Eugene Onegin
in Faust
as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
in costume
up close
smiling
smiling
in black tie
with Karita Mattila in Pique Dame
and with Olga Borodina
Bryn Terfel (1965- )
as Figaro
as Don Giovanni
as Jochanaan in Salome
as Falstaff
in costume, menacing
more eye contact
in an embellished portrait
standing between two posters
leaning against a tree
and with James Morris in Don Giovanni
