# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/titta-ruffo
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:45.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/titta-ruffo"
name: "Titta Ruffo"
slug: "titta-ruffo"
description: "Titta Ruffo, born as Ruffo Cafiero Titta, was an Italian operatic baritone who had a major international singing career. Known as the \"Voce del leone\", he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: \"His was not a voice, it was a miracle\", and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff. Maurel said that the notes of Ruffo's upper register were the most glorious baritone sounds he had ever heard. Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo \"a genius\"."
tagline: "Italian opera singer (1877-1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Titta_Ruffo_LCCN2014715163.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1877-06-09"
deathDate: "1953-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.97
  momentum:             4.562959558823527
  historical:           16.050436
  currentAttention:     20.09803921568626
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1393386"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95"
    title: "טיטה רופו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%BF%D5%A1_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%86%D6%86%D5%B8"
    title: "Տիտտա Ռուֆֆո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9"
    title: "ティッタ・ルッフォ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A4%E1%83%9D"
    title: "ტიტა რუფო"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Titta Ruffo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%84%D1%84%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Руффо, Титта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Titta_Ruffo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/da499aa9-85d2-4926-8065-e75a9f6b5aa1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump