Luigi Lablache
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Luigi Lablache (born December 6, 1794 in Naples , † January 23, 1858 ibid) was an Italian opera singer ( bass ), theater actor and vocal teacher .
Life
Lablache studied at the Conservatory della pietà de'Turchini in Naples under the direction of Giovanni Valesis and made his debut at the San Carlino Theater in 1812 as Buffo napoletano in Valentino Fioravantis Molinara . Later he expanded his sphere of activity by appearing on various stages in Italy in serious and comic roles, and after Saverio Mercadante wrote the opera Elisa e Claudio for him, his reputation spread throughout Italy and beyond its borders. In the 1820s, while Gioacchino Rossini successfully traversed Europe, Lablache was also one of the mainstays of the operas by this composer at the height of his fame, as demonstrated by a medal struck on him in Vienna in 1825. In the same year he sang the leading role of Sallustio in the world premiere of Giovanni Pacini's successful opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei (November 19, 1825).
Over the next few decades he took turns in the Italian operas of London , Paris and St. Petersburg , everywhere the public's darling.
Finally he retired to his country house in Maisons-Laffitte near Paris, but fell ill soon afterwards and died in Naples in 1858, where he had recently traveled to recover.
Lablache was admired as a singer as well as an actor, in serious and comic roles; a singing theory published by him in Paris ( Method de Chant ), however, had little success during his lifetime. Several of his singing schools were reissued decades after his death by Franz Haböck , singing professor at the Vienna Music Academy.
Frederick Lablache also became a singer of his children, and through the marriage of his eldest daughter Zecchina in the spring of 1843, he became the father-in-law of the pianist Sigismund Thalberg (1812–1871).
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 1612 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
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| SURNAME | Lablache, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (bass), theater actor and vocal teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1858 |
| Place of death | Naples |