* Carlo Bergonzi

* August 7 – Carlo Bergonzi makes his professional debut as Schaunard in La Bohème at the Arena Argentina in Catania.

Famous examples include Zinka Milanov, Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, and Renata Scotto.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

He soon established himself as one of a quartet of Italian tenor superstars who reached the peak of their fame in the 1950s and ' 60s, the others being Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Bergonzi and Franco Corelli.

* Madama Butterfly ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tullio Serafin conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Enzo Sordello.

* La Bohème ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tullio Serafin conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna D ' Angelo, Ettore Bastianini.

* Aida ( Giuseppe Verdi ): Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato, Cornell McNeil.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

Her 1966 recording of Madama Butterfly with Carlo Bergonzi and Rolando Panerai, under Barbirolli for EMI is frequently referred to as definitive.

Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello ( Verdi's ), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier.

His recordings of Verdi's Rigoletto ( alongside Renata Scotto and Carlo Bergonzi ) and Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlos, are probably the most respected of these ventures.

* Verdi, Rigoletto with Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Rafael Kubelík and the La Scala Orchestra on the Deutsche Grammophon label

She sang with many famous colleagues including tenors Beniamino Gigli, Mario Filippeschi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo, mezzo sopranos Giulietta Simionato, Fedora Barbieri, Shirley Verrett, Lili Chookasian, Grace Bumbry, baritones Gino Bechi, Tito Gobbi.

In 2005 the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation ( http :// www. gyllenbergs. fi / en /) bought a violin from Mr Berglund, which was built in 1732 by Carlo Bergonzi ( 1683-1747 ).

Lifetime Achievement – Carlo Bergonzi

* 1964-Verdi-Luisa Miller-Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Shirley Verrett, Cornell MacNeil, Giorgio Tozzi, Ezio Flagello-The RCA Italiana Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Fausto Cleva.

* 1965-Donizetti-Lucia di Lammermoor-Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Mario Sereni, Ezio Flagello-The RCA Italiana Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Georges Prêtre.

Many prominent singers have served in the jury, including Carlo Bergonzi, Geraint Evans, Marilyn Horne, Gundula Janowitz, Sherrill Milnes, Christoph Prégardien, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Anne Evans, René Kollo, Galina Vishnevskaya and Dame Gwyneth Jones.

From around 1715 he was assisted by his sons, and probably Carlo Bergonzi.

** Carlo Bergonzi

Milanov, Carlo Bergonzi, Frank Guarrera, Giorgio Tozzi, Dimitri Mitropoulos ; Metropolitan Opera

Nonetheless, di Stefano still managed to enjoy a significant operatic career, despite facing stiff competition during the 1950s and ' 60s from such outstanding fellow tenors as Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Richard Tucker and, prior to 1960, the short-lived Jussi Björling.

During her career at the Met, Chookasian sang with many great singers like Carlo Bergonzi, Richard Cassilly, Franco Corelli, Phyllis Curtin, Mattiwilda Dobbs, William Dooley, Plácido Domingo, Reri Grist, Anna Moffo, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Gail Robinson, Leonie Rysanek, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, and Richard Tucker among others.

Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.

Pope Clement XIII ( 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769 ), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was Pope from 16 July 1758 to 2 February 1769.

Amedeo Carlo Avogadro was born in Turin, Italy in 1776 to a noble family of Piedmont, Italy.

Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross ( born on 31 March 1934 ) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

In 1935, Carlo Alessi ( born 1916 ), son of Giovanni, was named chief designer.

He was born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi in Lugo in 1882.

* Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro ( born 1963 )

Son of Carlo I and Maddalena Favale, born 1897.

Bonanno was born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno on January 18, 1905 in Castellammare del Golfo, a town on the northwestern coast of Sicily.

Jérôme was born Girolamo Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica as the eighth and last surviving child, fifth surviving son, of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

Joseph was born Giuseppe Buonaparte in 1768 to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic.

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano ( 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840 ), born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

* Carlo Weber ( born 1934 ), German architect

Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria di Savoia was born in Turin, the eldest son of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, King of Sardinia and of his wife Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain.

Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, formerly Crown Prince of Italy ( Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria di Savoia ; born 12 February 1937 ) is the only son of the Umberto II, the last King of Italy.

* Gian Carlo Rota ( 1932 – 1999 ), mathematician and philosopher, was born in Vigevano.

* Carlo Rota ( born 1961 ), Canadian chef and actor

Paul Paray () ( born Le Tréport, 24 May 1886-died Monte Carlo, 10 October 1979 ) was a French conductor, organist and composer.

Carlo Giuliani, born in Rome, was the son of Giuliano Giuliani, a CGIL trade union activist, and Haidi Giuliani, who after his death would become a Senator for the Communist Refoundation Party.

* The Italian actor and comedian Carlo Dapporto was born in Sanremo and became a household name in post-war Italy.

In " The Doll ", it is revealed that Frank Costanza was born in Italy and still has a cousin, Carlo, who lives there.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (; born 9 December 1920 ) is an Italian politician and banker.

Carlo Tresca was born March 9, 1879 in Sulmona, Italy, the son of a landowner.

The brother of Carlo Gozzi, he was born in Venice.

Cherubini was born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini in Florence.