Italo Brancucci (1904, in

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– 1958, in

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) was an Italian

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and singing teacher. He taught at the famed Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in

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for many years. Several of his pupils went on to have major

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careers, including

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Elvina Ramella Elvina Ramella (3 February 1927 - 3 March 2007) was an Italian operatic soprano. Life and career Born in Biella, Ramella began her singing studies at a very young age at the in Parma under the guidance of Italo Brancucci and continued at the ...

Ferruccio Tagliavini Ferruccio Tagliavini (; 14 August 191329 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the excep ...

, and

Renata Tebaldi Renata Tebaldi ( , ; 1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. O ...

. As a composer he is best known for his opera '' Fiorella'' which premiered at the

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on 30 December 1936. It was subsequently performed at a number of other Italian opera houses during the late 1930s, including at the Teatro Regio in

on 15 February 1938 with

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in the title role and

Franco Lo Giudice Franco Lo Giudice (14 March 1893 – 8 August 1990) was an Italian tenor who had a successful international opera career during the first half of the 20th century. He was an important exponent of the works of Riccardo Zandonai, notably starring i ...

as Eugenio Beauharnais.

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Senza calare di tono: Il magistero culturale e musicale di Mario Dellapina by Ubaldo Delsante
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