Tajo, Italo (1915–1993)

Italian bass. He made his debut in Turin in 1935, as Fafner in Das Rheingold/The Rhine Gold. In 1947 he sang Figaro and Banquo at the 1947 Edinburgh Festival with the Glyndebourne company. In London he was heard as Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Dulcamara (1947–50). In the USA he sang at Chicago, San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York during the 1940s. From 1966 he taught at the Cincinnati Conservatory. Other roles included Leporello, Don Magnifico and Berg's Doctor.