Tito Gobbi (24 October 1913 – 5 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's La sonnambula and quickly appeared in Italy major opera houses. By the time he retired in 1979 he had acquired a repertoire of almost 100 operatic roles. They ranged from Rossini's Barber through Donizetti and the standard Verdi and Puccini baritone roles to Alban Berg's Wozzeck. He had a worldwide career as operatic baritone, appearing in (or recording the singing role) for over 25 films and, from the mid-1960s onward, was the stage director for about ten different operas which were given close to 35 productions throughout Europe and North America, including a significant number in Chicago for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Gobbi and Tilda had a daughter, Cecilia, who now runs the "Associazione Musicale Tito Gobbi", an organization devoted to preserving and celebrating the record of her father's contribution to opera. He was also the brother-in-law of one of his famous colleagues at Covent Garden, the Bulgarian-born bass, Boris Christoff. Gobbi retired in 1979 and died in Rome in 1984, aged 70.

Filmography

• 1978Tosca - Metropolitan Opera — Director, Production Design
• 1966Otello — Jago
• 1964Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II — Baron Scarpia
• 1962Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964 — Giacomo Puccini « Tosca, Atto II » extracts (9th February 1964)
• 1958Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958) — Scarpia / Figaro (Baritone)
• 1955Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia — Figaro
• 1954Fatal Desire — Musician
• 1954House of Ricordi — Cantante
• 1954I Pagliacci — Tonio
• 1953Giuseppe Verdi — Singer - baritone
• 1952The Firebird — Mario Vanni
• 1950La forza del destino — Don Carlos
• 1950Soho Conspiracy — Tito Gobbi
• 1949The Glass Mountain — Tito Gobbi
• 1948First Opera Film Festival — William Tell
• 1948Pagliacci — Tonio/Silvio
• 1947The Barber of Seville — Figaro
• 1947The Beautiful Days of King Murat — Prince Castelli
• 1947The Lost One — Georg Germont (singing voice)
• 1947This Wine of Love — Belcore
• 1946Before Him All Rome Trembled — Marco
• 1946O sole mio — Giovanni
• 1946Rigoletto — Rigoletto
• 1942Musica proibita — Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi
• 1937Giovanni de Medici: The Leader — Troubadour Nino

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2007Callas Assoluta — Self (archive footage)
• Schöne Stimmen — Self
• 1948Mad About Opera — Self