Italo Gardom, an Italian vocalist, born in 1820. He first appeared at the opera of Paris in 1844 as Earl Bothwell in Maria Stuart, and was applauded as almost equal to Mario, both in the sympathetic effect of his tenor voice and in his graceful and handsome person. In 1845 hewon new laurels as Don Sanche in Balfe's Etoile de Seville, and in 1846 in Flotow's Ante en peine. Since then he has been engaged at the Italian opera in Paris.