Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July 1921 – 3 March 2008) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Called "Pippo" by both fans and friends, he was known as the "Golden Voice" or "The Most Beautiful Voice", as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli. Luciano Pavarotti said he modeled himself after Di Stefano. In an interview Pavarotti said "Di Stefano is my idol. There is a solar voice...It was the most incredible, open voice you could hear. The musicality of Di Stefano is as natural and beautiful as the voice is phenomenal". Di Stefano was also the tenor who most inspired José Carreras. He died on 3 March 2008 as a result of injuries from an attack by unknown assailants.
Genre: classical-tenor, italian-tenor, opera, canzone-napoletana
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- O Surdato 'Nnamurato
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Di' tu se fedele" (Riccardo, Coro)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Consentimi, O Signore" (Ulrica, Amelia, Riccardo)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Della città all'occaso" (Ulrica, Amelia, Riccardo)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Che v'agita così?" (Ulrica, Amelia, Riccardo)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Ogni cura si doni al diletto" (Riccardo, Renato, Oscar, Samuel, Tom, Coro)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Volta la terrea" (Oscar, Riccardo, Giudice, Renato, Samuel, Tom, Coro)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Il primo giudice" (Oscar, Riccardo, Giudice)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Il cenno mio di là con essi attendi" (Riccardo, Oscar, Renato)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "La rivedrà nell’estasi" (Riccardo, Oscar, Coro, Samuel, Tom)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "S'avanza il Conte" (Oscar, Riccardo)
- Una furtiva lagrima (L’Elisir d’amore)
- Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act 4: "Fra le tue braccia, amore" (Manon, Des Grieux)
- Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act 2: "Oh, sarò la più bella!" (Manon, Des Grieux)
- Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act 1: "Ave, sera gentile" (Edmondo, Coro, Des Grieux)
- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: "Ah! Lo vedi, che hai tu detto?" (Turiddu, Santuzza)
- Puccini: La bohème, Act 1: "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì" (Mimì, Rodolfo)
- Puccini: La bohème, Act 1: "Che gelida manina!" (Rodolfo)
- Puccini: La bohème, Act 1: "Non sono in vena" (Rodolfo, Mimì)
- L'elisir d'amore / Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima"
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