Plinio Clabassi was an Italian bass, active in opera and especially associated with Italian repertory during the mid-twentieth century.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Callas’s 1954 La Scala recording of Verdi’s La forza del destino, with Richard Tucker, Elena Nicolai and Tullio Serafin.

Clabassi’s singing brought the firm bass grounding and Italian diction needed in Verdi’s large ensemble structures.

His page is justified by secure identity and catalogue context. Clabassi gives the Callas-Verdi shelf a solid bass foundation.