Raffaele Polani

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Raffaele Polani is an Italian-Israeli singer. He worked at the opera and was chief cantor of the Israelite community in Mannheim for 29 years .

Live and act

Raffaele Polani studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music . He first sang bass , but switched to baritone in 1963 - and in 1970 to tenor . As an opera singer he sang in Fidelio , Don Giovanni and the Barbier von Sevilla, among others . He sang Zaccaria in Nabucco and Rudolfo in La Bohème and, according to an article in Mannheimer Morgen, had "countless roles in the great houses all over the world".

After a guest appearance in Mannheim in 1985, Raffaele Polani was hired as chief cantor and held this position until March 31, 2014. Even after his resignation as Chief Cantor, he continued to live and work in Mannheim; For example, on January 28, 2018, he took part in a musical soirée of the Jewish community. The overall artistic direction was his wife Jaffa, his son Daniel worked as a pianist.

Polani can be heard on the long-playing record Synagogale Gesänge by RBM Records from 1987. In 2005 a recording of the Angel of Peace by Siegfried Wagner was released, in which Polani was involved. It was released on CD on the Living Stage label . It is a recording of a performance on November 23, 1975; Polani then sang Willfried and Reinhold. This performance under Leslie Head was the first performance of the opera in its full length. Head also performed Siegfried Wagner's Schwarzschwanenreich in 1983 in a concert version in Solingen . Polani was also involved here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christine Maisch-Straub: Mannheim. Jewish community chief cantor Raffaele Polani resigns / continues to be musically active , article from April 23, 2014 in Mannheimer Morgen online
  2. ↑ Musical soirée on www.jgm-net.de
  3. ↑ Synagogal Chants at www.discogs.com
  4. ↑ Audio sample from Der Friedensengel at www.deezer.com
  5. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography. Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-095596-5 , p. 596 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ^ Lewis Foreman: London. Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-300-10402-8 , p. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  7. ↑ a b Leslie Head on his 80th birthday , at www.siegfried-wagner.org
personal data
SURNAME Polani, Raffaele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli opera singer (lyric tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century