An 1842 caricature / cartoon bust of Giovanni Battista Rubin (1794 – 1854) who was a former tailor and very famous Italian tenor . Rubini is remembered as an extraordinary bel canto singer. Born in Romano di Lombardia, Rubini began life as a violinist at twelve years of age at the Teatro Riccardi in Bergamo but his first appearance as singer was in 1814 in Pavia playing Le lagrime d'una vedova by Pietro Generali. Rubin was was one of the long-remembered "Puritani quartet" with Giulia Grisi, Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache and a member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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