Giuseppe Di Stefano was a great exponent of Italian opera. He has traveled the world thanks to his extraordinary talent. A life, however, ended in a tragic way.
This afternoon there host and journalist Serena Bortone the Italian tenor will remember Giuseppe Di Stefano during the episode of the talk show Today is another day. By many he was known only as “Pippo” and was one of the greatest interpreters of opera in our country.
Despite being born in the province of Catania, Di Stefano moved to Milan when he was just a child, spending his life in the Milanese city. Right here he approaches the world of Opera, after a friend took him to the Teatro la Scala. A passion also stimulated during the Second World War.
After his official debut in 1949, he begins a long career that will lead him to perform in very important theaters in Italy and around the world. He will have a long-lasting artistic bond with the soprano Maria callas. A collaboration that will last until 1973, with the last tour of unprecedented success.
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After having separated from his wife Maria Girolami, after the tragic death of his daughter Luisa Due to fulminant leukemia, he fell in love with and married the young German soprano Monika Curth in 1977.
In 1980 he definitively disappeared from the scene, then returning for the last time in 1992 to the Baths of Caracalla, playing the Emperor Altoum in the Turandot. In 2004 he returned to Oderzo in public, when he received an award.
His death It dates back to March 3, 2008, not of natural causes. In her home in Diani, Kenya, there was one attempted robbery of his home. To defend his dog it was seriously injured with bludgeons.
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After losing consciousness he came hospitalized urgently at the Mombasa hospital. His conduct never fully recovered. He was operated on three times before returning to Milan, where he was hospitalized at San Raffaele. Despite the treatments, Giuseppe remained ill and died in his house in the province of Lucca, in Santa Maria Hoè.
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