Tito Gobbi: Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, ’Hai già vinta la causa... Vedro mentr’io sospiro’

Tito Gobbi (24 October 1913 -- 5 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. Gobbi’s international career blossomed after the Second World War, with appearances in 1948 at the San Francisco Opera. He performed for the first time at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1950 and sang with the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1954 until 1974. The year 1974 also saw the last of Gobbi’s numerous appearances at Covent Garden, where he had been much admired by the public and