Enrico Fissore

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Enrico Fissore (born January 23, 1939 in Bra ) is an Italian opera singer ( bass ).

Fissore studied singing with Michele Accorinti at the Turin Conservatory. He began his career as a specialist in baroque opera up to Rossini and Mozart . He later expanded his repertoire to include bass buffo and tragic opera roles from the romantic and early 20th century.

He is considered one of the most important international opera bassists in Italy and has performed at major opera houses and under well-known conductors around the world. He sang Leporello in Don Giovanni under Wolfgang Sawallisch and Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro under Peter Schneider at the Bavarian State Opera . At the invitation of James Levine he performed at the Metropolitan Opera in La forza del destino ; the production was filmed (with Leontyne Price ). He sang the leporello for a production of the San Francisco Opera under the direction of Chung Myung-whun .

At the Salzburg Festival he appeared in La serva padrona under Leopold Hager , at the Glyndebourne Festival as Schaunard in La Bohème under John Pritchard . His roles at La Scala in Milan included Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore (directed by Giuseppe Patanè ) and Slook in La cambiale di matrimonio . At the Vienna State Opera he was in roles in L'elisir d'amore . Il barbiere di Siviglia , Le nozze di Figaro and La forza del destino can be heard at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in Il barbiere di Siviglia alongside Cecilia Bartoli . With the Rossini specialist Alberto Zedda , he brought several rarely performed operas by the composer ( La cambiale di matrimonio , L'inganno felice , La scala di seta , L'occasione fa il ladro ) on stage.

He appeared in a concert performance of Igor Stravinsky's opera Le Renard with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi and was involved in the television recording of Luigi Cherubini's opera Ali-Baba ou Les quarante voleurs for the RAI and recordings of Il turco in Italia (with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner ), Il barbiere di Siviglia (on Decca Records , with Cecilia Bartoli and Leo Nucci ), Ilertrico (under Bruno Bartoletti ) with.

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SURNAME Fissore, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bra (Piedmont)