Aristodemo Giorgini – Operatic Tenor

Born: 1879
Died: 1937
Italian Tenor.

Aristodemo Girgini, 1879-1937, was an Italian tenor of international celebrity who enjoyed a long and successful career without becoming a household name as did some of his contemporaries.
He was a true lyric tenor who first studied at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. His first big success was when he took over from Sobinov in Don Pascuali at La Scala in 1905, when the Russian had to return to Moscow. In the autumn of the same year, he was at Covent Garden, singing Boheme and Rigoletto with Melba and Don Giovanni with Battistini.
Back in Italy, his engagement books were filled for years, and at La Scala in 1910, he co-starred with Storchio in a memorable revival of La Fanambula.
Overseas tours took him to Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Warsaw and St Petersburg.

He sang at Chicago from 1912 to 1914 and then at the Metropolitan in 1913 with Petro Zini.
He had a long and amazing recording career, starting in 1904 and ending in 1929, the highlight of which was his appearance in 1928 in the first electrical recording of a complete opera, La Boheme.

Here he is, much earlier, in Elisir de Mori.