Ginseppe Mario, marquis di Candia. an Italian singer, born in Cagliari. Sardinia. Oct. 18, 1810. He received an excellent musical education, and in 1830 entered the Sardinian military service. Having been ordered to Cagliari for certain youthful indiscretions, be resigned his commission; hut upon the refusal of gov-ernment to accept his resignation, he escaped to Paris, and by his admirable tenor voice soon attracted attention in the musical salons of that city. For the sake of satisfying his creditors, he accepted an engagement at the French opera at a liberal salary, assumed the name of Mario, and. after two years' Btudy at the conservatory, made his debut in December, 18 in Robert le diable, with decided succes.In the succeeding year he sang with Rubini at the Italian theatre,'and formed one of that brilliant galaxy of singers then upon the stage, comprising Rubini, Lablache, Tamburini, Mali-bran Sontag, Persiani, and Grisi. From that period, he was constantly before the public, occupying the position of the first tenor singer upon the stage. After performing principally in London and Paris, he visited Russia in 1845, remaining there five years, and in 1850-60 generally sang in London in the spring and summer and in Paris in the winter.

In 1854-'5 he accompanied Grisi, with whom he had lived for many years, having by her a family of children, and whom he finally married, on an operatic tour through the chief cities of the United States. In 1859 he appeared in London and Paris in the part of Don Giovanni, in the opera of that name, transposed to suit his voice. On June 18, 1871, he took his farewell of the stage at Covent Garden in La favorita. In the autumn of 1872 he again visited the United States on a concert tour. His voice had quite failed him, however, and his reappearance was a detriment to his reputation. He possessed respectable dramatic abilities, and excelled in parts like Almaviva in the " Barber of Seville." Among the operas in which he has principally appeared are La donna del lago La gazza ladra, Cenerentola, Motie, and others by Rossini; La sonnambula, Norma, and I puritani, by Bellini; Lucia di Lammermoor, La favorita, Lucrezia Borgia, Don Pasquale, etc, by Donizetti; and Ernani, La tratiata, and 11 trovatore, by Verdi.