Cesare Badiali
Cesare Badiali (uncertain: * 1805 in Bologna ; † November 19, 1865 in Bologna) was an Italian opera singer ( bass baritone ).
Life
As a small child he moved with his parents to Imola , where he began to study the double bass and the flute . Soon, however, he had to give up studying music and get a secure livelihood as a tax collector. At a reception in Bologna in 1827 he was noticed by his great voice and was offered a contract for Trieste , which he refused at first. However, a sum of 1500 francs soon won him over and he made his debut at the Teatro Comunale in Trieste. The success was great and engagements in Brescia , Ancona and Turin followed . Soon he joined with the most famous singers of his time, so 1829 in Bologna with Giuditta Pasta in Otello by Gioachino Rossini . In 1830 he was already committed to La Scala in Milan . Between 1832 and 1838 he stayed in Spain and Portugal .
After returning to Italy, he celebrated triumphs in Bergamo in Il pirata by Bellini alongside Giulia Grisi and Rubini . From 1839 to 1842 he was at the k. k. Engaged in the court opera in Vienna and was honored here with the title of chamber singer . Between 1841 and 1848 he sang many times with great success in Rome . In the title role of Nabucco , he celebrated triumphs that were fueled by the political events of the Risorgimento . During these years he could be found on all the program slips of the major opera houses in Italy. During the 1850s he traveled all over the operatic world from America to England. There he appeared as Don Giovanni in 1858 at the Drury Lane Theater in London . One of his brilliant roles was that of Assur in Rossini's Semiramide .
He was on friendly terms with Rossini. He spent the last years of his life in Bologna . Badiali was blessed with a great voice whose registers ranged from bass to baritone . He also had a marked talent for drama.
literature
- Ada Zapperi: Badiali Cesare . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Vol. 5, 1963 (Italian).
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3. Edition. Saur, Munich 1999, vol. 1, p. 147.
- Michael Jahn : Real embers of the south. Cesare Badiali - An Italian baritone in Vienna. In the S. (Ed.): Primadonnas, premieres, parodies. Writings on Viennese opera history 2. Vienna 2006, pp. 55–86.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cite other sources: 1803, approx. 1810 or the first years of the 19th century
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Badiali, Cesare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (bass baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1865 |
| Place of death | Bologna |