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    Titta Ruffo

    Operatic baritone

    Titta Ruffo

    Portrait of Titta Ruffo, c. s

    Born

    Ruffo Cafiero Titta


    ()9 September

    Pisa, Italy

    Died5 July () (aged&#;75)

    Firenze, Italy

    NationalityItalian
    OccupationOperaticbaritone
    Years&#;active–

    Titta Ruffo (9 June &#; 5 July ), born as Ruffo Cafiero (double forename) Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career.

    Known as the "Voce del leone" ("voice of the lion"), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: "His was not a voice, it was a miracle" (although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "which he [Ruffo] bawled away"), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff.

    Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard (see Pleasants, cited below). Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went