Italo Tajo

Although his handsome bass voice lacked the weight often expected in a low-ranged singer, Italo Tajo made a successful career based on his excellent grasp of style and character. Particularly adept in Mozart, Tajo performed a wide range of bass characters and showed an affinity for comic roles. Tajo eventually took up a position on the opera faculty at Cincinnati, but in his sixties he returned to the Chicago and Metropolitan Opera stages to perform such roles as Alcindoro/Benoit (La Bohème), Don Pasquale, and the Sacristan (Tosca). Tajo's first name derived from the fact tha...