Luigi Roni

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Luigi Roni (born February 22, 1942 in Vergemoli ; † March 26, 2020 in Lucca ) was an Italian opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Education and career in Italy

Luigi Roni attended the Istituto Musicale "Luigi Boccherini" in Lucca, where he studied singing with Cenni and Adriana Pizzorusso. Further studies followed later with Sara Sforni Corti in Milan . In 1965 he won the singing competition of Spoleto and debuted there that year as part of the Festival dei Due Mondi as Mephisto in Faust by Charles Gounod .

He then appeared relatively quickly on the leading Italian opera stages, u. a. at the Rome Opera House , in Turin, Venice, Trieste, Naples and Palermo. In 1973 he was a guest at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa as Basilio in The Barber of Seville . He also appeared at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , at the Opera Festival in the Caracalla Baths and in the Arena di Verona (1973).

From the 1968/69 season until 1992 he made regular guest appearances at La Scala in Milan , where he made his debut as Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo . In 1987 he took over the role of Lodovico in a gala performance on the occasion of the centenary of the world premiere of Verdi's opera Otello . In later years he also appeared again and again at Scala, for example in 1995 as Ashby in La fanciulla del West and as Pistola in Falstaff , then in 1997 as Angelotti in Tosca and again as Pistola. In 2001 he sang Pistola again at La Scala. He last appeared at Scala in 2010.

In 1976 he gave guest performances, alongside Renata Scotto in the title role , at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania as Orosmane in Zaira , of which there is also a live recording on record and CD. In 1990 he appeared there as MacGregor in Guglielmo Ratcliff by Pietro Mascagni . In September 1990 he sang the role of Lusignano in the opera Zaira as part of the Bellini Festival in Catania , where he played the father of the heroine with "familiar stentor tones". In 1997 he sang Pistola at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo ; In 1998 the Geronte followed in Manon Lescaut .

In the course of his career, he also took on many small and medium-sized roles and appeared in character roles. In 2009 he sang Timur in Turandot at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca. In recent years he has appeared several times at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago , most recently in 2015/16. In April 2019, now at the age of 77, he performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa as Simone in Gianni Schicchi .

In 2002 he founded the festival “Il Serchio delle Muse” in Valle del Serchio in the picturesque mountainous landscape of Garfagnana .

Guest performances

From 1970 to 1972 he appeared for the first time at the Salzburg Festival . In 1973 he made a guest appearance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with the Scala ensemble in Milan . In May 1973 he made his debut as König in Aida at the Vienna State Opera , where he also sang Oroveso in Norma in 1977 . In November 1979 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Ramphis in Aida . In the 2011/12 season he last appeared as Dottore Grenvil at the Metropolitan Opera.

Roni has performed further on Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon , at the Covent Garden Opera , at the Grand Opéra Paris , at the Opera House in Monte Carlo , at the Opera House Zagreb , at the Opera House of Marseille (1979) and at the Houston Grand Opera . In 1984 he appeared at the Orange Festival as the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo . In German-speaking countries he was a guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bonn Opera , where he sang numerous roles in the classic Italian opera repertoire over several seasons.

In the 1990/91 season he sang in Paris in a concert performance of Semiramide . In 2000 he was a guest at the Montpellier Opera House as Banquo in Macbeth . In 2002 he sang Sparafucile and Angelotti at the Toulouse Opera House . In 2005 he appeared again at the Salzburg Festival as Dottore Grenvil in La Traviata alongside Anna Netrebko . In 2006 and 2007 he made guest appearances at the Toulon Opera House, in May 2007 at the Nice Opera House and in spring 2008 at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse as Maurizio in The Four Ruffians .

death

Luigi Roni died on March 26, 2020 at the age of 78 at the Ospedale San Luca in Lucca as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection for which he had been admitted a few days earlier.

Voice and sound documents

Luigi Roni was one of the few real Italian "Bassi profondi" within his generation. His repertoire included in particular the classic bass roles of Italian opera literature (Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini). Roni also took on roles in operas by Mozart , Mussorgsky , Stravinsky and Prokofieff . His brilliant roles included the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo and the high priest Ramphis in Aida .

Roni's voice is documented in numerous complete recordings and live recordings. He can be heard in live recordings of La Traviata as partner of Angela Gheorghiu (La Scala in Milan) and Anna Netrebko (Salzburg Festival). There is a Don Carlo recording from Orange with Montserrat Caballé . With Maria Guleghina he recorded Manon Lescaut and I due Foscari from La Scala in Milan. His other recordings include Otello with Placido Domingo , Zaira with Renata Scotto , Aida with Montserrat Caballé and Domingo (EMI 1974, conductor: Riccardo Muti ), The Barber of Seville with Hermann Prey and Don Giovanni (Philips 1973 as Komtur, conductor: Sir Colin Davis ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c La scomparsa del basso Luigi Roni . Death report. In: Giornale della Musica of March 27, 2020; accessed on April 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Francisco Salazar: Obituary: Legendary Bass Luigi Roni Dies of Coronavirus . Obituary. In: Operawire of March 28, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  3. ^ Carl H. Hiller: Bellini's "Zaira" and Paisiello's "I Pittagorici" . Performance reviews. In: Opera world . Issue November 1990. Pages 46/47.
  4. ↑ Luigi Roni . Performance archive of the Salzburg Festival . Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ Luigi Roni . Performance archive of the Vienna State Opera . Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  6. ^ Aida {882} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/24/1979. Debut: Luigi Roni. Performance archive of the Metropolitan Opera . Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  7. ↑ Ernest Bouquet / GH: PARIS LIFE WITH STRIKE . Performance reviews. In: Orpheus . Issue March 3, 1991. Page 52.
  8. ↑ La Traviata . Performance archive of the Salzburg Festival 2005. Retrieved on April 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Roni, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vergemoli , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2020
Place of death Lucca , Italy