Julius Radichi

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Notice sheet for the first performance of the third version of Fidelio on March 23, 1814

Julius Radichi (* 1763 ; † September 16, 1846 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Radichi probably comes from Italy and appeared for the first time in 1793/94 in La Scala in Milan and in Genoa in 1799 . From February 24, 1808 to August 31, 1819 and from 1826 to 1829 he was a member of the Vienna Court Theater. On March 23, 1829 he gave his farewell concert and then worked as a teacher.

He was also an esteemed concert singer, especially in Joseph Haydn's oratorios The Creation and The Seasons .

He became particularly well known in the role of Florestan in Beethoven's opera Fidelio . He embodied this role in the first performance of the third and final version, which took place on March 23, 1814 in the Theater am Kärntnertor . Before that he had also sung Florestan in Ferdinando Paër's opera Leonore , which was first performed on February 8, 1809 in the Kärntnertor Theater - in German.

Radichi last lived at Franziskanerplatz No. 911, where he died of old age at the age of 83.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See notice (digital copy)
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 259, September 19, 1846, p. 2055
personal data
SURNAME Radichi, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1763
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1846
Place of death Vienna