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Giovanni Battista Rubini (April 7, 1794 - March 3, 1854) was an Italian tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an italians tenor. Caruso was also one of the most significant and renowned singers in any genre in both the 19th and 20th Centuries, and one of the most important pioneers of recorded music....
 in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast. As a singer Rubini was the major early exponent of the Romantic style of Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
 and Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
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Giovanni Battista Rubini (April 7, 1794 - March 3, 1854) was an Italian tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso was an italians tenor. Caruso was also one of the most significant and renowned singers in any genre in both the 19th and 20th Centuries, and one of the most important pioneers of recorded music....
 in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast. As a singer Rubini was the major early exponent of the Romantic style of Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
 and Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
. Rubini is remembered as an extraordinary bel canto
Bel Canto

Bel Canto may refer to:*Bel canto, a opera term that literally means "beautiful singing"*Bel Canto , a novel by Ann Patchett*Bel Canto , a Norwegian pop/electronica band...
 singer, one of the most famous singers in Europe in the 1830s and 40s.

Career

Born in Romano di Lombardia
Romano di Lombardia

Romano di Lombardia is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italy region of Lombardy, located about 45 km east of Milan and about 20 km southeast of Bergamo....
, Rubini began as a violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist at twelve years of age at the Teatro Riccardi in Bergamo
Bergamo

Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40km northeast of Milan. The commune is home to circa 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent Milan....
. His first appearance as singer was 1814 in Pavia
Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po River....
 in Le lagrime d'una vedova by Pietro Generali. After ten years in Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
, 1815-31, during which he also scored spectacular successes in Paris, 1825-26, in Rossini operas, he moved permanently to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, performing in Rossini's La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola

La Cenerentola, ossia La bont? in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella....
, Otello
Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest tragedy....
, and La donna del lago
La donna del lago

La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic works....
 and dividing his time between Paris (autumn and winter) and London (spring). His special relation with Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
 began with Bianca e Gernando (1826) and continued until I puritani
I puritani

I puritani is an opera in three acts, by Vincenzo Bellini. Libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli based on T?tes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine....
 (1835), when he was one of the long-remembered "Puritani quartet" of Giulia Grisi
Giulia Grisi

Giulia Grisi , was an Italy opera singer.Born in Milan, she was the daughter of one of Napoleon I of France's Italian officers. She came from a musically gifted family, her maternal aunt Giuseppina Grassini being a favourite opera-singer both on the continent and in London; her mother had also been a singer, and her elder sister Giuditta...
, Rubini, Antonio Tamburini
Antonio Tamburini

Antonio Tamburini was an Italian baritone.Born in Faenza, then part of the Papal States, Tamburini studied the horn with his father and voice with Aldobrando Rossi before making his debut aged 18 in La contessa di colle erbose ....
 and Luigi Lablache
Luigi Lablache

Luigi Lablache was an Italian bass singer of French and Irish heritage, born in Naples. He was most noted for his comic performances, with a powerful bass voice, a wide range, and adept acting: Leporello in Don Giovanni was one of his signature roles....
, for whose voices the opera was written. The four appeared together in Donizetti's Marino Faliero
Marino Faliero (opera)

Marino Faliero is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Emanuele Bid?ra wrote the Italian language libretto, with revisions by Agostino Ruffini, after Casimir Delavigne's play....
 the same season, then travelled to London with William Balfe. Rubini was admitted as an honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna and retired with a great fortune in 1845.

He died in his hometown of Romano in 1854.

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