Antonio Salvarezza

Antonio Salvarezza (Bosco Marengo, 14 May 1902 - Bosco Marengo, 24 July 1985) was an Italian tenor.

The town where Salvarezza was born

Biography

The lyric tenor, noted for his voice "of full timbre with ease and strength in the higher register",[1] studied singing with the maestro Filippo Florio.

Florio made his debut on the 6th of April 1937 at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto. During his career, he performed at many of world's important theaters, notably those in North and South America, 806 performances in total.[2]

His repertoire included thirty or so roles, ranging from classicism to Verismo. Salvarezza achieved high critical and public acclaim for his work with Puccini, especially as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca .

He worked alongside many great singers such as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai, Virginia Zeani, Toti Dal Monte, Mario Basiola, Giuseppe Taddei. In 1952, during the 15th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he sang as Eustazio in Armida, by Rossini, with Maria Callas.

In the 1950s he recorded studio arias for the record company Cetra, along with two live recordings of complete operas; the aforementioned Armida and William Tell.

Repertoire

Vincenzo Bellini

Gioachino Rossini

Gaetano Donizetti

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Charles Gounod

Pietro Mascagni

Umberto Giordano

Modest Musorgsky

Antônio Carlos Gomes
  • The slave (American)

Giuseppe Mulè
  • Taormina (Vanni)

Franco Alfano

Mario Peragallo
  • Geneva of the Almeri

Lorenzo Filiasi
  • Matins of Assisi

Discography

Singles

Complete Operas

Notes
  1. " Carlo Gatti: "Antonio Salvarezza, the great voice" in the website of Municipality of Bosco Marengo.
  2. Giovanni Martini, Biography on the tenor Antonio Salvarezza , Pro Loco editions of Bosco Marengo.

Bibliography
  • Evaristo Pagani, Biographical Collections of Italian Opera Singers , Published on its own, Albino, 2009.
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