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  Riccardo Stracciari   (1875-1955)

  Giuseppe De Luca   (1876-1950)
    studio portrait
    profile
    profile
    smiling
    standing
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto
    as Germont in La Traviata
    as Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale
    as Figaro
    again as Figaro
    as Scarpia in Tosca
    and as Zurga, with Enrico Caruso as Nadir, in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers

  Titta Ruffo   (1877-1953)
    as Cristoforo Colombo, 1909
    as Escamillo
    thinking
    with a diamond stickpin
    with a pearl stickpin
    dapper, as always
    reading the newspaper
    reading the newspaper
    studio portrait with moustache
    and aboard the Augustus, 1929

  Apollo Granforte   (1886-1975)

  Vicent Ballester   (1887-1927)
    and as Figaro in The Barber of Seville

  Heinrich Schlusnus   (1888-1952)
    a studio portrait
    and as Rigoletto

  Friedrich Schorr   (1888-1953)
    and in costume

  Renato Zanelli (before 1924, as a baritone)    (1892-1935)

  Lawrence Tibbett   (1896-1960)
    as a young man
    in a three-piece suit
    serious
    smiling
    smiling
    smiling
    arms folded, with a fur hat
    checking over a score at the piano, 1934
    with a guitar
    as the Emperor Jones
    as Scarpia
    as Simon Boccanegra
    as Ford in Falstaff
    as Iago
    again as Iago
    as Tonio in Pagliacci
    as Neri in Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe
    in the film "Merry Mount"
    in the 1930 film "New Moon"
    again in "New Moon"
    with Grace Moore
    again with Grace Moore
    and with his son

  Willi Domgraf Fassbaender    (1897-1978)
    in costume
    and in costume

  Carlo Tagliabue   (1898-1978)
    and as Wolfram

  Nelson Eddy   (1901-1967)
    a studio portrait
    a studio portrait
    smiling in a striped suit
    sitting on a bench
    and with Jeanette MacDonald

  Alexander Svéd   (1906-1979)

  Igor Gorin   (1908-1982)

  Walter Cassel   (1910-2000)

  Cesare Bardelli   (1910-2000)
    as Amonasro
    and as Scarpia

  Leonard Warren   (1911-1960)
    smiling
    smiling
    in profile
    in formal attire
    outdoors
    as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
    again as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto
    as Simon Boccanegra
    as Falstaff
    as Iago with Mario del Monaco as Otello
    again as Iago with Mario del Monaco as Otello
    as Scarpia with Dorothy Kirsten as Tosca
    as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, with Marian Anderson as Ulrica
    and with Renata Tebaldi, Marian Anderson, and Jan Peerce

  Pavel Lisitsian   (1911-2004)
    and in Faust

  Tito Gobbi   (1913-1984)
    as William Tell
    as Falstaff
    as Iago in Otello
    again as Iago
    as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
    in Simon Boccanegra
    again as Simon Boccanegra
    as Don Giovanni
    as Tonio in Pagliacci
    as Scarpia
    as Michele in Il Tabarro
    in costume, looking suspicious
    as a young man
    again as a young man
    with a little smile
    taking in the skyline
    lighting up
    with his dog
    as Iago, with Mario del Monaco as Otello
    as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
    as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
    again as Scarpia, with Maria Callas as Tosca
    and as Figaro with Maria Callas as Rosina in the Barber of Seville

  Gino Bechi   (1913-1993)
    smiling, different hat, different tie (photo courtesy of Emy Scicluna - Malta)
    elegant jacket and tie
    as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
    as Amonasro in Aida
    and in Un Ballo in Maschera

  Giuseppe Taddei   (1916-2010)
    smiling
    as Scarpia, sneering
    again as Scarpia
    again as Scarpia
    and in costume

  Robert Merrill   (1917-2004)
    as a young man
    another big smile
    another smile
    another smile
    relaxing with the paper on a lawn chair
    rehearsing
    wearing a striped suit
    in black tie, enjoying a drink
    in black tie, smiling
    in white tie
    cigarette ad
    singing the National Anthem
    as Germont in La Traviata
    again as Germont
    as Germont in La Traviata, with Anna Moffo as Violetta
    looking treacherous as Iago
    as Rodrigo
    as Amonasro
    as Rigoletto
    in Faust
    as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
    as Escamillo in Carmen
    again as Escamillo in Carmen
    again as Escamillo in Carmen
    as Marcello in La Bohème
    with Licia Albanese
    with Eileen Farrell and Franco Corelli
    and with Jussi Bjoerling

  Anselmo Colzani   (1918-2006)
    and with Renata Tebaldi in Adriana Lecouvreur

  Sesto Bruscantini   (1919-2003)

  Gérard Souzay   (1920-2004)

  Ettore Bastianini   (1922-1967)
    as Figaro in the Barber of Seville
    again as The Barber of Seville
    in Il Tabarro
    again in Il Tabarro
    in La Bohème
    again in La Bohème
    in La Forza del Destino
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto
    as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
    again as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
    again as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
    as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera
    as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
    as Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chénier
    in La Favorita
    as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
    as Poliuto
    as Escamillo in Carmen
    in costume
    a studio portrait
    smiling
    another studio portrait
    again in a studio portrait
    again in a studio portrait (photo courtesy of Francesco Speroni)
    as Germont with Maria Callas as Violetta in La Traviata
    backstage with Giuseppe Di Stefano after a performance of Un Ballo in Maschera
    with Franco Corelli
    and with Antonietta Stella

  Cornell MacNeil   (1922-2011)
    in Ernani
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto
    and as Tonio
    and in costume

  Sir Geraint Evans   (1922-1992)
    as Falstaff
    and again as Falstaff

  Giangiacomo Guelfi   (1924-2012)
    and in William Tell

  Gabriel Bacquier   (1924- )

  Rolando Panerai   (1924- )

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau    (1925-2012)
    in Falstaff
    as Mandryka
    in costume
    in costume
    in costume
    in costume
    dressed informally
    with a moustache and fur-trimmed coat
    with a cigarette
    in color
    in black
    with a black bowtie
    and with Gerald Moore

  Louis Quilico   (1925-2000)
    smiling
    as Falstaff
    in Un Ballo in Maschera
    and in costume

  Mario Sereni   (1928-2015)
    in costume
    as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
    as Germont in La Traviata
    and as Gérard in Andrea Chénier

  Hermann Prey   (1929-1998)
    as Wolfram
    as Beckmesser
    as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
    again as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
    smiling
    studio portrait
    studio portrait
    and another studio portrait

  Piero Cappuccilli   (1929-2005)
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto (photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
    in Simon Boccanegra (photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
    as Tonio in Pagliacci (photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
    and signing autographs (photo courtesy of Eva Wiedersich)
    sample of his voice (audio promo)

  Eberhard Wächter   (1929-1992)
    as Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress
    as the Posa in Don Carlo
    and as Amfortas

  John Shirley-Quirk   (1931-2014)

  Ingvar Wixell   (1931-2011) (photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)
    as Rigoletto (photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)
    and singing (photo courtesy of Sven Andersson)

  Sherrill Milnes   (1935- )
    as a young man
    in a patterned shirt
    in a turtleneck
    closeup
    handsome
    studio portrait
    smiling
    in black tie
    with a crown
    as Don Giovanni
    in Pagliacci
    as Athanael in Thaïs
    as Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West
    as Scarpia in Tosca
    again as Scarpia in Tosca
    again as Scarpia in Tosca
    as Germont in La Traviata
    as Rigoletto
    as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
    as Simon Boccanegra
    as Miller in Luisa Miller
    as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
    as Iago
    as Iago with Plácido Domingo as Otello
    with Renata Scotto in Macbeth
    and as Scarpia, with Francesco Speroni as Roberti (photo courtesy of Francesco Speroni)
    sample of his voice (audio promo)

  Renato Bruson   (1936- )
    as Carlo in La Forza del Destino
    as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore
    and as Iago, with José Cura as Otello

  José Van Dam   (1940- )
    in a relaxed mood
    smiling
    an informal portrait
    another informal portrait
    at the piano
    portrait by Peretti
    with conductor, Jean-Claude Casadesus
    in a duet with Jean-Claude Casadesus
    with his accompanist, Dalton Baldwin
    with his dog
    and he even has his own postage stamp

  Justino Diaz   (1940- )
    serious
    as Iago in Verdi's Otello
    as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra
    and in Carmen, with Grace Bumbry

  Leo Nucci   (1942- )
    as Rigoletto
    again as Rigoletto
    and in costume

  Sir Thomas Allen   (1944- )
    smiling
    with Ruth Ann Swenson in Don Pasquale
    and with Simone Alaimo in Don Pasquale

  Juan Pons   (1946- )
    smiling
    three-quarter portrait
    as Hérode in Hérodiade
    and in costume

  Sergei Leiferkuss   (1946- )

  Thomas Hampson   (1955- )
    in white tie
    casually dressed
    as Don Giovanni
    as Marcello in La Bohème
    and with Frederica Von Stade

  Gino Quilico   (1955- )
    and in costume

  Rodney Gilfry   (1959- )
    as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire
    in The Merry Widow
    as Billy Budd
    and again as Billy Budd

  Mark Delavan   (1959- )
    and as Falstaff

  Dmitri Hvorostovsky   (1962- )
    as Eugene Onegin
    in Faust
    as Rodrigo in Don Carlo
    in costume
    up close
    smiling
    smiling
    in black tie
    with Karita Mattila in Pique Dame
    and with Olga Borodina

  Bryn Terfel   (1965- )
    as Figaro
    as Don Giovanni
    as Jochanaan in Salome
    as Falstaff
    in costume, menacing
    more eye contact
    in an embellished portrait
    standing between two posters
    leaning against a tree
    and with James Morris in Don Giovanni