Today's Birthdays in Music: October 24 (Gobbi, Studer)

1913 - Tito Gobbi, Bassano del Grappa, Italy; opera baritone

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Tito Gobbi and Maria Callas perform the final scene of Act II of Puccini's Tosca (Covent Garden, 1964)


Gobbi sings "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1956, Carlo Maria Giulini
conducting)



1955 - Cheryl Studer, Midland, Michigan, U.S.A.; opera soprano

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Cheryl Studer sings "Allmacht Ge Junfrau" from Wagner's Tannhäuser (Bayreuth, 1990)