Giovanni Battista Rubini
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Giovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino
Giovanni Battista Rubini
Giovanni Battista Rubini
Michael William Balfe
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Michael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially The Bohemian Girl.
Giovanni Battista Rubini
…Luigi Lablache. The four appeared together again in Donizetti's Marino Faliero during the same season, then travelled to London with the Irish composer Michael William Balfe for a further round of operatic engagements. Rubini was admitted as an honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna and retired with a great…
Balfe as photographed by Nadar
Balfe in 1846
Balfe in London
Balfe's funerary monument at Kensal Green Cemetery, London