The New York herald., 1921-04-12
TAGLIAPIETRA DEAD;
OLD TIME BARITONE
Was Known to Operagoers OF
Older Generation for Role
as Escamill0.

Giovanni Tagliapietra. a barytone
singer. well known 10 the older genera
ton OF operagoers in New York and In
his younger years a soldier under Carl
baldi. was found dead IN his bed in his
home. sl3 West Thirty-fourth street.
yesterday morning. Upon retiring Sun
day he had complained OF feeling I'll. At
5 o'clock Mrs. Tagliapietra went 70 his
room to see IL he was awake and found
him dead.
A few years ago financial rrverses
obliged Mr.. and Mrs. Tasliapietra TO
give UP the house In West Thirty-fourth
street which was her family home
They lived FOR some time at Is East
N,netleth street. hat recently were able
to return 10 Nrs. TGgliapietra's former
home.
While to the present generation of
opera and concert goers the name CT
Giovanni Tagliapietrs was familiar, few
remember him as one of the most pop
ula, barytones OF his day and an Escr-
n,suo and a Valentine who sent audi
ences in the later operate days OF the
Academy of Music into storms OF appre-
ciative applause Twenty years ago ne
appeared In a series OF summer pro-
duetions of opera in the Grand Opera
third street. but he Lad sung li.tie IN
public since then. = was forty years
ago when he was beg, En0wa + Aincrco
as ar opera singer.
Sig5or TaeiiapietrGs arst We vas
Nine. Teresa Carreao. tie pianist, They
were divorced and : few years go she
was married to his younger brother.
Arturo Tiagliapietra. In 1900 Slgnor
Tagliapietra married Miss Margaret
Townsend, daughter Of the late John d.
Townsend. a noted lawyer OF New York.
Signor Tag!iapietra was native Of
Venice. His uncle. Gourian Tagliapie-
ira, q Venetian lawyer. sent him TO
study music under Giovanni Corsi
Later, while a student at the University
of Padua, he. with several other young
students. ran away from the university
TO join the forces under Garibaldi
That was IN 1866. and he served under
the Llberator three years He then re-
turned to his musical studies.
He was fond OF speaking OF his sol
dier days under Garibaldi. Recently
Ta2liapietra. or Tag" as he was known
among his friends. said III referring TO
the L.berator: II remember once he said
to his nen--we were really boys: I will
give you 100 bullets, the ground for
your bed. the sky for your tent end God
for your witness. VIII you follow me?
And how his men loved him.
He sang first In Florence in la
Favorita" and afterward IN Paris and
Nice. A few years later he took COM
pany OF los singers to Venezuela for
a season OF opera. He made his Amer
lean debut IN the Booth Theatre In 1880
with the Max Strakosch Opera Company
in q performance OF Lucia" OF which
Nine Etelka Gerster was TIE pTirna
donna. He sang afterward in the Acad-
erny OF Music. making successful ap-
poarances in Carmen" and Faust" az
we'll as in Lucia" He afterward ap-
peared in opera In the leading American
cities. and since his retirement from the
tage had lived In New York.
Before the death OF John y. Town
send, more than twenty-throe years ago,
the old brownstone mansion In West
Thirty-fourth street was famed for the
iliustrious gatherings which It sheltered
on Sunday evenings.