Giovanni Battista Rubini

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Giovanni Battista Rubini (born April 7, 1794 in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, Italy; died March 3, 1854 in Romano di Lombardia) was an Italian tenor.

Rubini began as a violinist at 12 years of age at the Riccardi Theatre in Bergamo. His first appearance as singer was 1814 in Pavia in Le lagrime d'una vedova by Pietro Generali. After ten years in Naples, he moved to Paris, performing La Cenerentola, Otello, and La donna del lago.

As a singer Rubini was the major early exponent of the Romantic style of Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti. Rubini is remembered as an extraordinary singer, one of the most famous singers in Europe in the 1830s and 40s.

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