Umberto di Lelio

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Umberto di Lelio (* 1890 in Rome , † 1946 in Milan ) was an Italian opera singer (bass) and vocal teacher. He was a representative of the bel canto tradition of the Italian school, focusing on the Italian and French opera repertoire of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His performance builds on the singing teaching of the singing teacher and singer Manuel Garcia .

Life

Umberto di Lelio studied singing in Rome with Antonio Cotogni (1831-1916).

In 1916 he made his debut in the theater of the Alhambra in Taranto as Cirillo in the opera Fedora and in 1922 at La Scala in Milan . Here he sang from 1921 to 1941 on a permanent contract in Italian, French and German opera, including 1922 in the world premiere of the opera Debora and Jaele by Ildebrando Pizzetti , and in 1929 in the Italian premiere of the opera Das Märchen vom Tsar Saltan by Rimski-Korsakow and in 1936 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in the Italian premiere of the opera Arabella by Richard Strauss .

Di Lelio had worked out around 70 games at La Scala. He retired from the stage in 1941.

As a bel canto singer, Umberto di Lelio was also able to sing the Wagner repertoire in bel canto based on Richard Wagner's original idea of ​​a bel canto style. Wagner's operas were performed in Italian at La Scala.

Di Lelio was also highly valued in Italy as a singing teacher and bel canto singing teacher, especially by colleagues from Scala and other great singers. His students, colleagues and friends included a large group of national and international artists - including Toscanini .

Appearances

1916

1917

1918

1919 (1920)

1921

1922

1923

Umberti di Lelio has made guest appearances in Switzerland, France, Australia, Portugal and South America.

1924

1925

1926

  • Parma: Teatro Regio, TG Bonicelli's La leggenda di Natale, Badro
  • Modena: Teatro Municipale, Mefistofele , Mefistofele - Norma , Oroveso
  • Bologna: Teatro Comunale, Norma, Oroveso
  • Florence: Politeama Fiorentino, I quattro rusteghi , NN
  • Rome: Teatro Adriano, Mefistofele, Mefistofele
  • Trieste: Teatro Verdi, Mefistofele, Mefistofele

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

  • Genoa: Teatro Carlo Felice, Il franco cacciatore ( Der Freischütz )
  • Catania: Teatro del Popolo, Norma , Oroveso
  • Naples: Teatro San Carlo, Lohengrin , King Henry

1940

1941

Repertoire overview

Italian opera

Bellini: La sonnambula , Rodolfo - Norma , Oroveso

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore , Dulcamara - Don Pasquale , Don Pasquale - Lucia di Lammermoor , Raimondo

Verdi: Rigoletto , Sparafucile - Aida , Ramfis - Il trovatore , Ferrando - Ernani , Silva - Falstaff , Pistola - La forza del destino , Padre Guardiano - Un ballo in maschera , Samuel - Otello , Lodovico

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia , Don Basilio

Puccini: Tosca , Angelotti - La Bohème , Colline - La fanciulla del West , Wallace - Turandot , Timur - Gianni Schicchi , Schicchi - Manon Lescaut , Geronte

Other belcanto operas: Fedora , Cirillo - Adriana Lecouvreur , Principe - La Gioconda , Alvise - Iris , Cieco - Loreley, Margravio - Guglielmo Ratcliff , Tom - Il re di Lahore - Il Guarany , Don Antonio

Early bel canto repertoire: Cimarosa's L'impresario in angustie, Perizonio - Il matrimonio segreto , Robinson

French opera

La Wally , Stromminger - Mefistofele , Mefistofele - Mignon , Lotario - Ariane et Barbe-Bleue - La fille du régiment , Sulpizio - Marta , Tristano - Faust , Mefistofele - Fra Diavolo

Russian opera

Boris Godunow , Varlaam - Khovanshchina , Ivan - The fairy tale of Tsar Saltan , Tsar Saltan

Mozart

Le nozze di Figaro , Conte - Don Giovanni , Leporello

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

La vedova scaltra , Rubenif - Il campiello, Fabrizio - I quattro rusteghi , Simone

German opera

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier , Baron Ochs - Elektra , Oreste - Arabella

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin , King Heinrich - Götterdämmerung , Hagen - Tristan and Isolde , Tristan - Parsifal , Klingsor - The Mastersingers of Nuremberg , Beckmesser - Siegfried , Wanderer

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio , Pizarro

Carl Maria von Weber: The Freischütz

Modern repertoire

Debora e Jaele, Heyer (world premiere) - Le preziose redicole, Gorgibus - Amore dei tre re, Archibaldo - Le educande di sorrento, Don Democrito - Guido del Popolo, Duca - Il favorito del ré, King

Discography Columbia Record

  • MEFISTOFELE Ecco il mondo b 1608 - MEFISTOFELE Aria del fischio b 1716
  • FAVORITA Vien Leonora b 1611 - BARBERS DI SIVIGLIA La calunnia bx 179
  • SONNAMBULA Vi ravviso b 1696 - SONNAMBULA Tu non sai b 1698
  • BORIS GODUNOV Canzone di Varlaam b 1610
  • FAUST Serenata b 1709 - FAUST Dio dell'or b 1712
  • LOHENGRIN O re del ciel b 1701

Web links

swell

  1. Franco Corelli - l'uomo, la voce, l'arte - Giancarlo Landini - Idea Books, Viareggio; P. 31 ff; ISBN 978-88-88033-68-6 , 2010
  2. Franco Corelli - Prince of tenors, Opera Biography No. 17, René Seghers, Amadeus Press, New York pp. 57–59 ff; ISBN 978-1-61774-684-0 , 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Umberto di Lelio in forgottenoperasingers
personal data
SURNAME Di Lelio, Umberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (bass) and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Milan