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Ferruccio Tagliavini
Ferruccio Tagliavini was an Italian operatic lyric tenor who was born in 1913 in
Reggio Emilia and died in 1995. He displayed an early aptitude for singing and
appeared in his first professional stage work at age 12 in 1925 before later
training in the bel canto repertoire. Tagliavini made his professional operatic
debut as Rodolfo in the opera La bohème in 1939 at the Teatro Comunale in
Florence. He achieved a major career breakthrough in 1942 at La Scala performing
the role of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. Following World War II, he
performed at many of the world's l...
