Rolando Panerai

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Rolando Panerai (born October 17, 1924 in Campi Bisenzio near Florence , † October 23, 2019 in Florence) was an Italian opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

He was trained by Vito Frazzi at the Florence Conservatory . Later with Giacomo Armani and Giulia Tess in Milan. Panerai won a singing competition in Spoleto in 1947. In the same year he made his debut as Faraone in Rossini's opera Mosè in Egitto at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. His ascent started gradually and in 1951 he was appointed to La Scala in Milan . This was the beginning of a brilliant international career.

In the following years, as he had already developed into one of the leading baritone players in the Italian repertoire, he sang almost regularly at La Scala with great success. The premiere of Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler in 1957 took place with his participation. He appeared at all the major opera houses in Europe, including London, Paris, Brussels and Vienna. At the Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Edinburgh festivals, too, his unusually cultivated creative ability was repeatedly admired, the stylistically confident ability and technical elegance, the musical character of each part, to extract the appropriate nuances of the performance and the presentation without losing the tonal beauty of his wonderfully smooth voice overwhelm.

In 1955 he became a member of the Metropolitan Opera New York, where in recent years he has often been celebrated in his brilliant roles as Silvio in Bajazzo , Belcore in Donizetti's love potion and as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte .

In 1992 he was appointed chamber singer in Vienna .

Various record companies have recorded his voice on complete recordings. Particularly noteworthy is his recording of Marcello in La Bohème (Puccini), which he recorded under Herbert von Karajan with the Berliner Philharmoniker with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni .

He died in October 2019 at the age of 95.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Giorgio Bagnoli: The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera, 1993, Simon and Schuster, p. 284 [1]
  2. ↑ a b c Italian singer turned 95: baritone Rolando Panerai died , klassik.com , October 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Panerai, Rolando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Campi Bisenzio near Florence
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2019
Place of death Florence