Carlo Dani

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Carlo Dani Road cycling
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Date of birth October 1, 1873
date of death April 15, 1944
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Road cycling, track cycling
Carlo Dani, Sydney, 1902

Carlo Dani (born October 1, 1873 in Florence ; † April 15, 1944 ibid) was an Italian opera singer ( tenor ) and racing cyclist .

Life

Cycling

In 1893 Carlo Dani was third in the Italian professional road championship. In 1895 he won two road races , Florence - Livorno and Florence - Rocca d'Arno, and in 1897 Florence - Viareggio . In addition to Luigi Pontecchi , he was the celebrated local hero on the Velodrome in the Florentine Parco delle Cascine , where he defeated the US sprint world champion Arthur Augustus Zimmerman in a race in June 1894 .

Opera

Cani then resigned from competitive cycling and continued his career as an opera singer; his pitch was tenor . As early as 1894 he made his debut in Florence as the "Duke of Mantua" in Rigoletto . In the 1902/1903 season he appeared in the Metropolitan Opera in New York in Rigoletto , Pagliacci , La traviata , La Bohème and Don Pasquale , together with Marcella Sembrich and Antonio Scotti . The following season these roles were taken over by Enrico Caruso . In 1907 Cani made guest appearances in Buenos Aires and São Paulo . In 1910 he sang the part of the Duke in the Deutsches Theater in Prague , in 1911 he appeared in Naples, and in 1913 he sang “De Grieux” in Manon Lescaut in Florence . Between 1907 and 1912 he recorded several arias on record . Presumably he later went to Australia, where he had appeared as a member of the Royal Italian Opera Company in 1901 and 1902 ; there he is said to have worked as a singing teacher.

Web links

Commons : Carlo Dani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luigi Pontecchi. (No longer available online.) FIMO 1940, May 10, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 16, 2014 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firenzemodena1940.it
  2. ↑ JC Williamson opera, comic opera, operetta programs. National Library of Australia, accessed February 17, 2014 .
  3. ^ Carlo Dani (tenor). forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.de, November 26, 2011, accessed on February 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Dani, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor) and racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1944
Place of death Florence