Franco Calabrese

Franco Calabrese (22 July 1923 in Palermo – 13 November 1992 in Lucca)[1] was an Italian bass singer.

Biography

Calabrese grew up in Lucca, graduating from the Boccherini Institute In 1947. He made his stage debut at the Teatro Comunale in Florence.[2] In 1952, he debuted at La Scala as Angelloti in the famous de Sabata Tosca.[3]

He was particularly renowned for his Mozart and Rossini roles, and notably those of Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte and the Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.[4] Calabrese appeared in this latter role in the noted 1955 recording, with Sesto Bruscanini, Graziella Sciuti and the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Vittorio Gui.[5]

After retiring from singing, he taught stagecraft at the same Boccherini Institute in Lucca,[2] where his students included, among others, Graziano Polidori, Giancarlo Ceccarini, Francesco Facini and Enrico Facini.

Discography (Incomplete)

References

  1. ^ "Voci maschili (C – D) – Archivio del Canto" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  2. ^ a b "Marco Del Bucchia Editore - Erba d'Arno - 21.03.2010". www.delbucchia.it. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  3. ^ a b House, The Royal Opera. "Puccini: Tosca CD (Victor de Sabata)". The Royal Opera House. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  4. ^ "Franco Calabrese- Bio, Albums, Pictures – Naxos Classical Music". www.naxos.com. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  5. ^ a b "Review". Gramophone. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  6. ^ Verdi, Giuseppe; Moffo, Anna; Tucker, Richard; Merrill, Robert; Reynolds, Anna; Previtali, Fernando (1999), La traviata, Teatro dell'opera (Rome, Italy), New York, NY: RCA, retrieved 2021-06-16
  7. ^ "La Bohème Discography". opera.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-16.



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