Veriano Luchetti

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Veriano Luchetti (born March 12, 1939 in Tuscania , Viterbo province , † April 23, 2012 in Rome ) was an Italian opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Luchetti was initially a pilot in the Italian Air Force . However, he decided relatively late for a singer to have his voice trained professionally and studied singing privately in Milan .

He made his stage debut in 1965 at the Wexford Festival in Ireland , where he sang the role of Alfredo in La traviata alongside the soprano Jeannette Pilou . In 1966 he also appeared as Alfredo at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels . In 1967 he won the Concorso del Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto . In 1967 he made his professional debut in Italy at the Teatro Sperimentale in Spoleto as Loris in the opera Fedora , as part of the Spoleto Festival. At the Festival dei Due Mondi in 1967 he also sang Ferrando in the opera Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo by Gaetano Donizetti . In the same year he sang this role at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste . In 1967 he made his debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice ; then a steeply rising opera career developed at almost all Italian opera houses. Luchetti sang in Rome, Parma , Naples and Palermo , among others .

In May 1975 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan as Foresto in the opera Attila ; He also made a guest appearance with the Ensemble of La Scala in Milan at Covent Garden Opera , as Gabriele Adorno in Simone Boccanegra . In 1976 he sang the singer in the opera Der Rosenkavalier at La Scala ; He then performed with the ensemble of La Scala in Milan on a US tour in Washington, DC . He sang Macduff in Macbeth and again the role of Gabriele Adorno. He also sang this role in 1978 when La Scala opened its season. In 1979 he appeared again as Macduff and Gabriele Adorno at Scala; He sang these roles in 1981 on a Japan tour of the Milan Scala in Tokyo . There he also took on the tenor solo in Verdi's Requiem . In 1986 he made a guest appearance with the ensemble of La Scala in Vancouver ; he sang the tenor role in I Lombardi alla prima crociata under the musical direction of Gianandrea Gavazzeni . In 1987 Riccardo Muti performed a guest performance with Verdi's Requiem in Berlin .

He has made several guest appearances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , including in 1971 as Vasco da Gama in Die Afrikanerin and in 1974 as Enrico in a performance of the opera Agnese di Hohenstaufen by Gaspare Spontini, which is now considered legendary . In 1973 he sang the title role in the opera Don Carlos at the Teatro La Fenice under the musical direction of Georges Prêtre ; his partners were Katia Ricciarelli , Nicolai Ghiaurov , Piero Cappuccilli and Fiorenza Cossotto . He appeared at the Festival in the Arena of Verona (1977–1980; 1984–1985 in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata ), at the Ravenna Festival (1986 as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly ) and at the Festival in the Caracalla Baths (1988 as Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West ). In 1990 he sang Radamès in the opera Aida at the Teatro Regio di Torino .

Luchetti has made guest appearances in other European countries, including at the Covent Garden Opera in London (debut January 1973 as Pinkerton; 1974–1975 as Rodolfo in La Bohème ; 1976 as part of the Scala guest performance), at the Grand Opéra Paris (1975 as Don Carlos) , at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (1976 as Jason in Medea ; as partner of Leonie Rysanek ) and at the Salzburg Festival (1989 as Macduff). In April 1973 Luchetti's debut at the Vienna State Opera as Pinkerton. He also sang the roles there, Rodolfo (1974), Alfredo (1974–1977), Gabriele Adorno (1984–1986) and Foresto in Attila (1988).

In the German-speaking area he also appeared at the Hamburg State Opera , the Bavarian State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

He made international guest appearances overseas at the Philadelphia Opera House (debut in 1971 as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor , later also as Cavaradossi in Tosca ), at the Lyric Opera in Chicago , at the opera houses in Dallas and Houston and at the opera house in Rio de Janeiro . In the 1977/78 season he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as Rodolfo in La Bohème . In 1988 he sang Don José in Carmen under the musical direction of Plácido Domingo ; Luchetti's partners in these performances were Marilyn Horne , Mirella Freni , Mietta Sighele, and Samuel Ramey .

Luchetti had largely withdrawn from his active singing career at the end of the 1990s. Occasionally he still appeared as a concert singer, but was mainly active as a singing teacher. Luchetti was married to the soprano Mietta Sighele . Together with Sighele he organized the musician festival "Rivafestival" in Riva del Garda . Luchetti died in Rome on April 23, 2012.

repertoire

Luchetti had an extensive repertoire on the opera stage. It included tenor roles in operas by Giuseppe Verdi , Giacomo Puccini , Charles Gounod , Georges Bizet , Gaetano Donizetti , Vincenzo Bellini , Jules Massenet , Luigi Cherubini , Gaspare Spontini, Francesco Cilea and Umberto Giordano . Mainly he interpreted the Italian opera subject. He was considered a specialist in Verdi's early work. He was considered an excellent Verdi tenor, but was always overshadowed by Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras . In addition to his operatic career, Luchettis was also a busy concert singer.

Audio documents

Veriano Luchetti's voice is recorded in some sound documents. There are several complete opera recordings, including studio recordings at EMI , Decca Records and Hungaroton , as Ismaele in Nabucco (EMI, 1977), Jason in Medea (1979, at Hungaroton with Sylvia Sass as a partner) and as Macduff (Decca Records, 1986). He recorded Verdi's Requiem twice, with the conductors Riccardo Muti (at EMI) and Georg Solti (RCA).

In addition, numerous live recordings have been released on CD in recent years . Luchetti's main roles are, however, only very sporadically documented on records or other sound carriers. Overall, Luchetti is largely underrepresented on phonograms; through the republication of live recordings, including Die Afrikanerin (1971), Don Carlo (1973) and The Sicilian Vespers (1978), some of his main roles have now been documented for posterity.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Veriano Luchetti (biography; Eng.)
  2. ↑ List of roles by Veriano Luchetti in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , p. 574. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  3. ↑ a b c d Veriano Luchetti died at the age of 73. Death report in: Der Standard from April 23, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Luchetti, Veriano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuscania , Viterbo Province
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2012
Place of death Rome