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Tito Schipa
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Italian tenor (1889-1965)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1946
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Orfeo 9 il making
- Tito Schipa
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Film & TV
Lecce, Italy
Tito Schipa (Italian pronunciation: [ˈskipa]; born Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa; 2nd January 1889 in Lecce – 16 December 1965) was an Italian tenor, considered the greatest tenore di grazia and one of the most popular tenors of the century. Schipa was born as Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa on 27 December 1888 in Lecce in Apulia into an Arbëreshë family; his birthday was recorded as January 2,…
Known for
- Soho Conspiracy — Tito Schipa1950
- Il cavaliere del sogno — Tenor Duprez1947
- Rosalba1945
- Vivere ancora1945
- In cerca di felicità — Francesco Gualdi1944
- Land of Fire — Aldo Berti, tenore1939
- Who Is Happier Than I? — Tito1938
- Vivere! — Tito1936
- I Sing for You Alone — le ténor Marcello Palma1933
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1888-12-27
- Active to
- 1965-12-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,433
- Total plays
- 52,975
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Tito Schipa (Lecce, 27 dicembre 1888 – New York, 16 dicembre 1965) was an Italian tenor. He is considered one of the finest tenore di grazia (lyric tenors) in operatic history. He was endowed with a natural, sensuous voice which he deployed with great intelligence and taste. Schipa was born Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa in Lecce in late 1888. (His birthday was recorded years later as January 2 for conscription purposes.) [1] He studied in Milan and made his operatic debut at age 21 in 1910 at
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tito
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Lecce
- Place of death
- New York City
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- RCA Victor
- Official website
- www.titoschipa.it
- Image
- Tito Schipa 1.jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Tito Schipa
- Commons category
- Tito Schipa
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 1965-01-01
- name in native language
- Tito Schipa
- member of
- Freemasonry
- birth name
- Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa
- start of work period
- 1910-00-00
- date of birth
- 1889-01-01
- P8168
- 3128 Obruchev
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- medical condition
- type 2 diabetes
Sources (2)
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to Tito Schipa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Les' ich in your eyes: “Don Pasquale”/Donizetti
Sono andati? (Are we alone?): 4th act, death scene; I. part; (“Bohème”)/(Puccini)
Take the ring of fidelity here: “Die Nachtwandler”/Romani - Bellini
Rosalinda: cancion/(Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes)
Ay-Ay-Ay: (Creole song)/(Osman Perez-Freire)
!["E la solita storia..." (Lamento di Federico) (Atto 2.0) : L' Arlesiana / ([Musik:] Cilèa - [Text:] L. Marenco)](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F007248%2Ffon_snp_a_007248_02.jpg&type=IMAGE)
"E la solita storia..." (Lamento di Federico) (Atto 2.0) : L' Arlesiana / ([Musik:] Cilèa - [Text:] L. Marenco)
Bohême: Death scene - part 1 (Sono andati); (act 4)/(Puccini)
![Una fortiva lagrima (Atto 2.0): L “elisir d” amore/([Musik:] Donizetti - [Text:] Romani)](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F007248%2Ffon_snp_a_007248_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
Una fortiva lagrima (Atto 2.0): L “elisir d” amore/([Musik:] Donizetti - [Text:] Romani)
Canción Andaluza (A Granada - To Granada)/(C. Palacios)
Oh! Dio! Mimi! : 4. Nude, death scene; II part; (“Bohème”)/(Puccini)
Bohême: Death Scene - part 2 (Oh Dio Mimi); (act 4)/(Piccini)