Armando Borgioli

Armando Borgioli (19 March 1898 – 20 January 1945) was an Italian operatic baritone. He made his début in 1923, and appeared at Teatro alla Scala from 1927. In four seasons from 1931 he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Borgioli made studio recordings of Aida in 1928, where he sings Amonasro, together with Giannina Arangi-Lombardi and in 1938 as Scarpia in Tosca with Maria Caniglia and Beniamino Gigli.

Sources

• Metropolitan Opera, Performance record: Borgioli, Armando (Baritone) on the MetOpera Database
• Rosenthal, H. and Warrack, J. "Borgioli, Armando", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1979, p. 57