Giuseppe De Stefano

Quick Facts

Full Name	Giuseppe De Stefano
Occupation	Operatic Tenor
Date Of Birth	Jul 24, 1921(1921-07-24)
Age	103
Date Of Death	March 3, 2008, Santa Maria Hoè, Italy
Birthplace	Motta Sant'Anastasia
Country	Italy
Birth City	Sicily
Horoscope	Leo

Giuseppe De Stefano Biography

Giuseppe De Stefano is one of the most popular and richest Operatic Tenor who was born on July 24, 1921 in Motta Sant'Anastasia, Sicily, Italy.

Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July 1921 – 3 March 2008) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the mid 1940s until the early 1990s. Called Pippo by both fans and friends, he was known as the “Golden voice” or “The most beautiful voice”, as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli. Luciano Pavarotti said he modeled himself after Di Stefano. In an interview Pavarotti said “Di Stefano is my idol. There is a solar voice…It was the most incredible, open voice you could hear. The musicality of di Stefano is as natural and beautiful as the voice is phenomenal”. Di Stefano was also the tenor who most inspired José Carreras. He died on 3 March 2008 as a result of injuries from an attack by unknown assailants.

World War Two interrupted di Stefano’s early career as he had to join the Italian army, where he often entertained the troops with his singing. He was considered such a bad soldier that his commanding officer decided that he would better serve his country by leaving the forces in order to sing. He performed under the pseudonym Nino Florio until Italy was defeated, when he fled to Switzerland. After a period of internment he was allowed to sing on Lausanne Radio, where he made the first of his recordings, disclosing a tenor voice of decided beauty and a singer with personality. He recorded many of his native Sicilian songs, records of which first brought him to the attention of discerning ears outside Italy in the late 1940s.

Giuseppe De Stefano Net Worth

Giuseppe De Stefano is one of the richest Operatic Tenor from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Giuseppe De Stefano 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Giuseppe Di Stefano was born in Motta Sant’Anastasia, a village near Catania, Sicily, in 1921. He moved to Milan with his parents when he was six. He was the only son of a carabiniere turned cobbler and his dressmaker wife. Di Stefano was educated at a Jesuit seminary and briefly contemplated entering the priesthood.

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Di Stefano also made many other recordings with other wonderful singers, complete EMI sets of Madama Butterfly (opposite Victoria de los Ángeles, 1954) and La traviata (with Antonietta Stella and Tito Gobbi, 1955).

Facts & Trivia

Gregory Ranked on the list of most popular Operatic Tenor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Giuseppe De Stefano celebrates birthday on July 24 of every year.

For Ricordi (Ricordi MRO 104/105), he made a complete stereo Lucia di Lammermoor with Renata Scotto, Ettore Bastianini and Ivo Vinco in 1958, with Nino Sanzogno conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan.