Ruffo, Titta
(1877–1953)> VOCALIST
Ruffo, Titta (8 June 1877, Pisa; 5 July 1953; Florence), vocalist, traveled so widely and appeared so frequently in Rome, Florence, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago that he had relatively little time left for Paris. He made his debut at the Garnier theatre in Rigoletto on 18 December 1911 and then sang the lead in Hamlet, billed on 20 and 27 December 1911. The following year, 1912, the management of the Opéra designated the period of 9 to 30 May as the…