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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Top Tracks
- 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"
Albums (43)
- O Sole Mio (2023)
- Napule ca se ne va! (2023)
- Verdi: Rigoletto (2023)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (2022)
- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (2022)
- Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2022)
- Andrea Chénier (2022)
- Der Rosenkavalier op. 59 (2021)
- Canciones rusas (2020)
- Singers of the Century: Giuseppe di Stefano—Canzone italiane "Non ti scordar di me" (2019 Remaster) (2019)
- Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (2017)
- Verdi: Luisa Miller (Live) (2016)
- Verdi: La forza del destino (Live) (2016)
- Singers of the Century: Giuseppe di Stefano "Parlami d'amore Mariù" - An Italian Song Recital (Remastered 2015) (2015)
- Verdi: La traviata (2015)
- Il mito dell'opera: Giuseppe Di Stefano — The Early Years, Vol. 2 (2015)
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (2015)
- Puccini: Tosca (Live) (2015)
- Giuseppe Di Stefano 1964 (2014)
- The Complete Italian Radio Recordings (Live) (2014)
- Tosca (2014)
- The Complete Italian Radio Recordings (Live) (2014)
- Il mito dell'oprera: Rigoletto (1948) (2014)
- Giuseppe Di Stefano in San Francisco (Live) (2014)
- Puccini: Turandot (Recorded Live 1961) (2014)
- Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2014)
- Il Mito dell'Opera: Giuseppe Di Stefano (The Early Years) (2014)
- Mamma (2014)
- Giuseppe Di Stefano - Voce 'e notte (2013)
- Marechiare (2013)
- Mamma / Fenesta che lucive / Reginella / Amapola... (2013)
- I grandi tenori (2012)
- Puccini: Turandot - Verdi: La forza del destino (Excerpts) [Live] (2012)
- Essential Tenor Collection (2011)
- The Best Of Giuseppe Di Stefano (2011)
- Giuseppe Di Stefano (2011)
- Verdi: Requiem (2011)
- Giuseppe di Stefano - The Decca Recordings (2011)
- Puccini: Tosca (2009)
- Di Stefano, Giuseppe: Neapolitan Songs (1953-1957) (2009)
- Icon: Giuseppe di Stefano (2008)
- Giordano: Fedora (2008)
- Sings Neapolitan Songs (2000)
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