SINGER

Francesco Tamagno

1850 - 1905

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Francesco Tamagno (28 December 1850 – 31 August 1905) was an Italian operatic dramatic tenor who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. On 5 February 1887, he sang Otello in the first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera. He is also the earliest Italian tenor of note to have left a sizeable body of recordings of his voice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Tamagno has received more than 60,944 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Tamagno is the 1,060th most popular singer (down from 952nd in 2019), the 3,301st most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,036th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Italian Singer.

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  • 1.68

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Francesco Tamagno ranks 1,060 out of 4,381Before him are Elīna Garanča, Lenny Kuhr, Rino Gaetano, Heintje Simons, Adrian Belew, and Thongchai McIntyre. After him are Virginia E. Johnson, Désirée Artôt, Marion Rung, Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Keith Urban, and Donny Hathaway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Francesco Tamagno ranks 79Before him are Spencer Gore, Woldemar Voigt, Richard Heuberger, George Huntington, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau. After him are Victor Laloux, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Siri von Essen, Gregory VII of Constantinople, Léon-Adolphe Amette, and Frances Xavier Cabrini. Among people deceased in 1905, Francesco Tamagno ranks 66Before him are John Hay, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Charles Yerkes, Hermann Usener, Célestine Galli-Marié, and Theodoros Diligiannis. After him are Ralph Copeland, René Goblet, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Hranush Arshagyan, and Kārlis Baumanis.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Tamagno ranks 3,301 out of 5,161Before him are Giuseppe Adami (1878), Eleonora Giorgi (1953), Pino Puglisi (1937), Rino Gaetano (1950), Girolamo Mei (1519), and Titus Didius (-200). After him are Tullio Pinelli (1908), Dorian Gray (1931), Alessandro Striggio (1540), Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (-600), Fausto Gresini (1961), and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (1963).

Among SINGERS In Italy

Among singers born in Italy, Francesco Tamagno ranks 77Before him are Enzo Ghinazzi (1955), Tony Renis (1938), Antonello Venditti (1949), Franca Raimondi (1932), Nilla Pizzi (1919), and Rino Gaetano (1950). After him are Claudia Muzio (1889), Caterina Caselli (1946), Fedora Barbieri (1920), Gala (1975), Nada (1953), and Amelita Galli-Curci (1882).