Riccardo Stracciari

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Riccardo Stracciari (born June 26, 1875 in Casalecchio di Reno , † October 10, 1955 in Rome ) was an Italian opera singer ( baritone ) and singing teacher .

Life

Stracciari trained as an engineer and sang in an operetta choir in 1894 before completing vocal training with Umberto Masetti at the Conservatory of Bologna . In 1899 he began his career as a singer as a representative of Giuseppe Kaschmann in a performance of Stefano Pesori's oratorio La risurrezione di Christo at the Municipal Theater of Bologna. As an opera singer he made his debut the following year in the role of Marcello in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème . After a few years in the provinces and touring, he made his debut at La Scala in Milan in 1905 as Amonasro in Verdi's Aida .

After his debut at the Royal Opera House in 1905, he made his first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1906 as Germont in Verdi's La Traviata with Marcella Sembrich and Enrico Caruso . During his two-year engagement at the Met, he sang Rigoletto, Ashton, Amonasro, Valentin, Marcello, Sharpless, Lescaut, Alfio, Tonio and Di Luna, among others. He then appeared at the Chicago Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Paris Opera , the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. His interpretation of the role of Figaro in Gioacchino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , which he played more than a thousand times in his career, became famous.

Stracciari officially retired from the stage in 1938, but continued to perform in public until 1944. In his later years he taught singing at the Conservatories of Naples and Rome. His best known students were Raffaele Arié , Paolo Silveri , Giulio Fioravanti , Zdeněk Otava , Mario Laurenti and Boris Christoff .

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SURNAME Stracciari, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Casalecchio di Reno
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1955
Place of death Rome