Ottavio Garaventa

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Ottavio Garaventa (born January 26, 1934 in Genoa ; † March 18, 2014 in Savignone ) was an Italian opera singer with a tenor voice .

Life

Training and career start

Garaventa was a nephew of the Italian soprano Rosetta Noli (* 1926). From her he received his first singing lessons; He completed further studies with Vladimiro Badiali. He made his debut as a baritone in 1959 and sang a. a. the title role in the opera The Barber of Seville . He then trained as a tenor; in a US guest appearance with an Italian opera company, he sang his first tenor role in Cincinnati in 1963 , the Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana . His official operatic debut took place in 1964 at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan with the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni . In 1965 he won the "Concorso di Voci Verdiane" singing competition in Busseto and other competitions in Genoa and Modena .

Career in Italy

In 1966 he appeared at the Teatro Comunale Modena as Des Grieux in the opera Manon ; his partner in the title role was Mirella Freni. In 1967 he sang at the Teatro Massimo Palermo in the world premiere of the opera Il Gattopardo by Angelo Musco (1925–1969). In 1968 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan as Riccardo in Maria di Rohan . At La Scala he also appeared as Carlo Moor in I masnadieri in 1978 and as Rodolfo in La Bohème in 1981 .

In 1971, 1975 and 1979 he appeared at the Festival in the Arena di Verona ; there again in 1981 as Ismaele in Nabucco and as Duke in Rigoletto . With the ensemble of the Arena di Verona, as partner of Anna Moffo , he made a guest appearance in April 1980 as Alfredo in La Traviata at the International Congress Centrum Berlin in Berlin .

He sang several times at the Rome Opera House . In 1977 he took part in the opera festival in the Caracalla thermal baths ; there he sang the Duke in Rigoletto . In 1978 he appeared at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in the Italian premiere of Les martyrs , the French version of the opera Poliuto by Gaetano Donizetti ; his partners were Leyla Gencer and Renato Bruson . He also had guest appearances at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples , at the Teatro Regio in Parma and often at the Teatro Regio di Torino ; there he sang a. a. Leicester in Maria Stuarda and, in the 1981/82 season, Percy in Anna Bolena . In 1983 he sang the role of Lord Percy in Anna Bolena at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo . In 1990 he appeared again at the Teatro Regio Parma, this time as Radamès in Aida .

He also sang at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago , in Genoa (1985; as Cadmo in Il Diluvio universale by Donizetti; 1987 as Faust in Mefistofele ), at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo (1987; as Tamas in Gemma di Vergy ) , at the opera festival in Macerata (XXIV. Stagione Lirica 1988, as Cavaradossi in Tosca in the Arena Sferisterio) and in Livorno (in September 1992 as Giorgio in I Rantzau by Pietro Mascagni , with the Orchestra Accademia Strumentale Toscana, conductor: Bruno Rigacci ).

Guest performances in Europe and overseas

He appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival (1967; as Rodolfo in La Bohème ), at the Edinburgh Festival (1972; as Arturo in La Straniera by Vincenzo Bellini ) and at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence (1974; as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller ).

In June 1974 he appeared for the first time at the Vienna State Opera ; there he made his debut as Gustaf III. in Un ballo in maschera . Until 1988 he performed there regularly. Other roles at the Vienna State Opera included a .: Alfredo in La traviata (debut: November 1974), Herzog in Rigoletto (debut: November 1974; last September 1978), Rodolfo in La Bohème (September 1977), Tebaldo in I Capuleti ei Montecchi (season 1977/78), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (debut: September 1977; last in March 1988) and, for a short time as a substitute, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (November 1987).

In 1980 he made a guest appearance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in the tenor role of Marcello di Bruges in Donizetti's unfinished opera Il duca d'Alba . In 1981 he took over the role of Riccardo in a new production of the opera Un ballo in maschera at the Monte Carlo Opera House . In October 1981 he sang the role of Alfredo Germont at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in the series "Festliche Opernabende" alongside Sona Ghazarian (as Violetta); he stood in for Giacomo Aragall at short notice . In March 1988 he sang the role of King Carlo VII in the early Verdi opera Giovanna d'Arco in a concert performance at the Alte Oper Frankfurt , with Margaret Price in the title role as partner.

He gave further guest appearances in Amsterdam (1969), in Liège (September 1988, as Calaf in Turandot in the Palais des Sports), Bordeaux , Marseille , in Lisbon and at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden .

In 1965 he sang Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at the Cincinnati Opera . Between 1968 and 1970 he appeared at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Fenton in Falstaff ; Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville ). He has also made guest appearances at the San Francisco Opera , the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Tokyo (1984; as Leicester).

Retirement, private matters and death

In 1993 Garaventa officially gave up his active opera career. In July 2013 he performed again at an anniversary concert for the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi . Garaventa was director of the Festival Internazionale di Musica di Savignone for several years.

Garaventa was married. A daughter was born from his marriage to his wife Lilli. Together with his daughter, he set up a foundation for young singers. He died in March 2014 after a serious illness at the age of 80 in his home town of Savignone in the province of Liguria and was buried there on March 20, 2014.

Repertoire and audio documents

In the course of his career Garaventa sang mainly the lyric tenor part in the operas of Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti. He was a bel canto specialist. In addition, he sang classical lyric specialist parts of the Italian repertoire, a. a. Alfredo in La traviata . The Riccardo / Gustavo in Verdi Un ballo in maschera was considered to be his special highlight . Outside the Italian repertoire, Garaventa a. a. Lenski in Eugene Onegin .

For the record Garaventa a. a. a duet record with excerpts from the Verdi Otello and the Rossini Otello with Virginia Zeani as a partner. However, the number of his studio recordings is very small overall.

However, there are numerous radio recordings and live recordings of operas, etc. a. Mosè (1968), Poliuto (Teatro La Fenice; 1978) and a video recording by Nabucco (1981; Arena di Verona).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Lirica: e 'morto il tenore Ottavio Garaventa death report in: La Repubblica from March 18, 2014; accessed on March 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Klaus Laskowski: La Traviata . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1980. Page 249/250.
  3. ↑ List of roles by Ottavio Garaventa in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945–2005 , p. 419. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  4. ↑ Federica Burlando: È morto il tenore Ottavio Garaventa . mentelocale.it of March 18, 2014. Accessed March 22, 2014
  5. ↑ Riccardo Porcù: Il commosso addio a Ottavio Garaventa: “Uomo forte e tenace, eccezionale” Il Secolo XIX of March 21, 2014. Retrieved on March 22, 20144
personal data
SURNAME Garaventa, Ottavio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa , Liguria, Republic of Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2014
Place of death Savignone , Liguria, Republic of Italy