Mario, Giovanni Matteo Mario , Cavaliere di Candia DIT (17 October 1810, Cagliari; 11 December 1883, Rome), vocalist, belonged to the famous quartet whose other members were Giulio Grisi , Antonio Tamburini , and Luigi Lablache . They dominated operatic productions with their preferences for Vincenzo Bellini , Domenico Gaetano Donizetti , and Gioacchino Rossini on the Paris-London axis between 1835 and 1860. They managed to control the situation, because German music except for Giacomo…