Giulio Crimi, il primo PAOLO MALATESTA (Torino, 1914 -- Zandonai/Ricordi/D'Annunzio) -- Trilogia dei Malatesta: 1. Paolo Malatesta, 2. Parisina Malatesta, 3. Sigismondo Malatesta)

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Giulio Crimi
Nazionalità	Italia
Genere	Musica lirica
Periodo di attività	1911 – 1927

Giulio Crimi (Paternò, 10 maggio 1885 – Roma, 29 ottobre 1939) è stato un tenore italiano.

 

Crimi studiato con il maestro Matteo Adernó a Catania e ha debuttato il 30 novembre 1911 al "Bellini" di Catania in Cavalleria rusticana, mentre il debutto internazionale avvenne a Londra al Covent Garden nel 1914 nel ruolo di Avito ne L'amore dei tre re.

È stato il primo Paolo Malatesta nella Francesca da Rimini a Torino nel 1914.

Crimi ha debuttato al Teatro Metropolitan di New York come Radames in Aida nel 1918 e vi ha cantato per quattro stagioni, interpretando i ruoli di Rodolfo (La bohème), Chenier (Andrea Chénier), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Canio (Pagliacci), Alfredo (La traviata), Milio (Zazà) ed è stato il primo interprete di Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) e Luigi (Il tabarro) in due delle tre opere del Trittico di Puccini, che debuttò al Metropolitan il 14 dicembre 1918.

Nel corso della sua collaborazione col teatro Metropolitan, Crimi registrò la sua voce negli Stati Uniti su dischi Vocalion, realizzando tra il 1918 e il 1924 almeno 45 incisioni finora solo parzialmente ripubblicate in microsolco per le etichette RUBINI inglese e TIMA Club italiana.

Crimi si è esibito inoltre a Chicago, Buenos Aires, Milano e Roma, dove ha cantato al Teatro Colonna nelle stagioni 1916-21 e 1924 (interpretando tra l'altro Arrigo, Andrea Chénier, Radames, Canio, Rodolfo, Don Alvaro ne La forza del destino, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor).

È apparso l'ultima volta sulla scena alla fine del 1927 in Francesca da Rimini al Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova.

L'arresto della sua carriera fu molto brusco e avvenne proprio nel pieno della sua maturità artistica.

A provocarlo fu forse proprio l'eccessiva generosità della sua voce, che l'aveva portato ai più clamorosi successi.

 La causa fisica fu invece un'emorragia all'occhio sinistro, provocata da ipertensione.

Crimi stabilitosi a Roma, Crimi iniziò quindi l'attività di insegnante di canto.

Tra i suoi allievi si ricordano Gino Del Signore e Tito Gobbi.

Scomparve il 29 (28?) ottobre del 1939 a soli cinquantaquattro anni lasciandosi alle spalle il ricordo di un prestigio e di un'eleganza scenica veramente eccezionali.

Giulio Crimi, infatti, pur non essendo fra i tenori più grandi della sua epoca (che vide la presenza di Caruso, a cui il tenore siciliano guardava come un modello), ha occupato un posto apprezzabile nel panorama lirico mondiale grazie ad una voce piena, bella e brillante e ad un canto caldo e comunicativo.

Collegamenti esterni 

• Sito Paternogenius con notizie sul tenore Giulio Crimi
• Sito con alcune foto di scena di Giovanni Crimi
• (EN) Articolo in formato PDF apparso sul The New York Times il 14 novembre 1918 riguardo al debutto di Giulio Crimi al Metropolitan di New York

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Crimi: Tenore Zandonaiano: il primo Paolo Malatesta (1914)

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CRIMI il primo PAOLO MALATESTA

ENRICO TAMBERLIK, il primo ALVARO -- Verdi, "Don Alvaro; ossia, la potenza del fato" -- O tu che in seno agl'angeli -- tenor

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ENRICO TAMBERLIK, il primo ALVARO -- Verdi, "Don Alvaro; ossia, la potenza del fato" -- O tu che in seno agl'angeli -- tenor 

Don Alvaro, Leonora's suitor -- tenor Enrico Tamberlik

ERNESTO NICOLINI, il primo Radames a LONDRA -- Royal Italian Opera, 1876 -- with his wife Adelina Patti in the title role of "Aida".

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Ernesto Nicolini

 

Ernesto Nicolini

Ernesto Nicolini (February 23, 1834 - January 19, 1898) was an operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.

Born in Saint Malo, France, he studied at the Paris Conservatory and made his debut in 1857, at the Opéra-Comique in Halevy's Les mousquetaires de la reine.

After further study in Italy, Nicolini makes his debut at La Scala in Milan in 1859 as Alfredo in La traviata, other roles there included Rodrigo in Rossini's Otello, and Elvino in Bellini's La sonnambula.

On his return to France he sang at the Théâtre-Italien from 1862 until 1869.

He made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London in 1866, as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, without great success due to the pronounced vibrato that marred his singing.


Five years later he returned to London to sing in Faust and Robert le diable at Drury Lane, and from 1872 appeared every season at the Royal Opera House until 1884.

His roles there included Pery in Il Guarany, Radames in Aida, and the title role in Lohengrin. He created the role of Celio at the premiere of Charles Lenepveu's Velléda in 1882.
During the season 1874-75, he appeared in St Petersburg and Moscow, opposite the world-famous soprano Adelina Patti, whom he would partner in almost all her appearances thereafter, accompanying her on concert tours of the major western European capitals (Vienna, Milan, Venice, Brussels, Berlin and so on), as well on tours of the United States and South America.

While together in Paris in 1886, singing in Faust at the Grand Opéra, the two created something of a scandal by getting married.

Patti had divorced her first husband, the Marquis de Caux, shortly before her wedding to Nicolini.

Nicolini appeared on stage for the last time at Drury Lane in 1897, as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He died the following year in Pau, France.

 Sources

• Grove Music Online, Elizabeth Forbes, July 2008.

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Name	Nicolini, Ernesto
Alternative names
Short description	French opera singer
Date of birth	February 23, 1834
Place of birth
Date of death	January 19, 1898
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EDOARDO GARBIN, il primo Fenton -- VERDIANA: il sonneto di Fenton, "Falstaff" -- tenor

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Fenton, one of Nannetta's suitors tenor Edoardo Garbin.

Edouardo Garbin (12 March 1865 - 1943) was an Italian operatic tenor.

 

He was married to the soprano Adelina Stehle.

Roles created include:

-- Don Fernando Guevara in Cristoforo Colombo (Alberto Franchetti).

Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice

October 6, 1892

 

-- Fenton in Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi).

La Scala, 9 February 1893

 

-- Milio in Zazà (Ruggero Leoncavallo).

Teatro Lirico Di Milano, 10 November 1900

References

The Teatro Solís: 150 years of opera, concert, and ballet in Montevideo

   

 

 

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FRANCESCO TAMAGNO, il primo OTELLO verdiano

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Otello, a Moorish general tenor Francesco Tamagno

PIETRO MONGINI -- il primo Radames -- Verdi, "AIDA" -- Celeste aida -- tenor

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Radamès, Captain of the Guard tenor Pietro Mongini

FRANCESCO TAMAGNO -- il primo "Don Carlo" di Verdi

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Don Carlos (Don Carlo), Infante of Spain, son and heir to the King -- role created by Francesco Tamagno

GAETANO FRASCHINI, il primo conte di Warwick -- Verdi, "GUSTAVO III, ossia il ballo in maschera"

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Riccardo, Earl of Warwick and governor of Boston -- Gustavo, King of Sweden -- created by Gaetano Fraschini

EMILIO PANCANI, il primo AROLDO -- VERDIANA

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Aroldo, a Saxon Knight tenor Emilio Pancani

CARLO NEGRINI, il primo "GABRIELE ADORNO" (tenore) -- Verdi, "SIMON BOCCANEGRA".

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Gabriele Adorno, a Genoese gentleman tenor Carlo Negrini

ANTONIO GIUGLINI -- il primo "ARRIGO" -- Verdi, "I VESPRI SICILIANI"

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Enrico/Arrigo (post-1861), siciliano, tenor, created by Antonio Giuglini

LODOVICO GRAZIANI -- il primo ALFREDO -- VERDIANA, LIBIAMO -- "La traviata" -- "La signora"

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Alfredo Germont, a young bourgeois from a provincial family tenor Lodovico Graziani

Carlo Baucardé: IL PRIMO MANRICO -- Verdi, "IL TROVATORE"

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Manrico, a troubadour and officer in the army of the Prince of Urgel tenor Carlo Baucardé

RAFFAELE MIRATE, il primo Duca di Mantova -- Verdi, "Il duca di Mantova; ovvero Rigoletto!"

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Raffaele Mirate (3 September 1815 – November 1895) was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who had an active career from the 1830s through the 1860s.

Known for his intelligent phrasing and bright and powerful vocal timbre, he was regarded as an outstanding interpreter of the tenor roles in the early and middle period operas of Giuseppe Verdi.

He notably created the role of the Duca di Mantova in the world premiere of Verdi's "Il duca di Mantova; ovvero, Rigoletto! -- la maledizione" -- in 1851.

 He was also a highly regaurded interpreter of bel canto roles, excelling in the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini.^[1]

 

Born in Naples, Mirate was a pupil of Alessandro Busti and the famous castrato Girolamo Crescentini at the Regio Collegio di Musica. His first opera performance was in a school production in 1834. His official opera début came three years later at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples as the title hero in Donizetti's Torquato Tasso. From 1836 through 1839 he worked primarily in Naples, although he did appear as a guest performer at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor.^[1]
In 1839 Mirate arrived at the Théâtre Italien in Paris where he attracted wide acclaim singing roles in operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Bellini. He made his first appearance at La Scala in 1840 as Amenofi in Rossini's Mosè in Egitto to great success. In 1844 he was again a guest at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris. In 1845 he was heard at the Teatro Argentina in Rome as Jacopo in I due Foscari and Charles VII in Giovanna d'Arco. The librettist Francesco Maria Piave, who was a frequent collaborator with Verdi, was in attendance at these Rome performances and likened Mirate's voice to the great lyric tenor, Napoleone Moriani.^[1]
During the late 1840s and early 1850s, Mirate was busy singing at the opera houses of Venice, Genoa and Milan. In 1848 he participated in the world premiere of Carlo Boniforti's Giovanna di Fiandra at La Scala. By 1850 he was the highest paid singer at La Fenice, and it is at this house that he portrayed the role with which he became most identified, the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto. His performance of the bravura aria "La donna è mobile" was hailed as the highlight of the opera's premiere performance on 11 March 1851. A more commanding Duke than some subsequent tenors, he went on to perform the role over 190 times during the rest of his career.^[1]
Mirate sang at several more premieres at La Fenice, including portraying Don Carlo in Antonio Buzzolla's Elisabetta di Valois (1850), Don Alvaro in Francesco Malipiero's Fernando Cortez (1851), and Arminio in Giovanni Pacini's La punizione (1854). He also appeared in numerous world premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples during the 1850s, including Admeto in Giuseppe Staffa's Alceste (1852), the title role in Nicola De Giosa's Guido Colmar (1852), Cassandro in Saverio Mercadante's Statira (1853), the title role in Ferdinando Tommasi's Guido Colmar (1855), and a role in the premiere of Giovanni Pacini's Margherita Pusterla (1856). In 1857 he portrayed Casimiro in the premiere of Emanuele Muzio's La sorrentina at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.^[2]
From 1854-55, Mirate performed with great success at La Scala, notably singing Manrico in Verdi's Il trovatore to the approval of the composer. He sang in Boston and New York in 1856 and then at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires during that house's first season in 1857. He returned to Buenos Aires in 1860, also making appearances in Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro while he was in South America. He retired in 1861, but came out of retirement two year later to sing at the Teatro di San Carlo from 1863–1866. While there he sang in two world premieres, portraying Rodrigo in Errico Petrella's Celinda and Icilio in Mercadante's Virginia. He died in Sorrento in 1895 at the age of 80.^[1]

 References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Raffaele Biography at operissimo.com (in German)
2. ^ www.amadeusonline.net

Persondata
Name	Mirate, Raffaele
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	3 September 1815
Place of birth
Date of death	1895
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GAETANO FRASCHINI: il primo STIFFELIO (Verdi) -- rewritten as "AROLDO" as set in 13th century England.

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Stiffelio, a Protestant minister tenor Gaetano Fraschini

SETTIMIO MALVEZZI, il primo RODOLFO -- Verdi, "Luisa Miller"

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Rodolfo, tenor Settimio Malvezzi

GAETANO FRASCHINI -- il primo ARRIGO (Veronese warrior), VERDI, "La battaglia di Legnano"

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Arrigo, Veronese Warrior tenor Gaetano Fraschini

GAETANO FRASCHINI, il primo CORRADO -- VERDI, "IL CORSARO"

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Corrado, captain of the Pirates tenor Gaetano Fraschini

Ah, la paterna mano -- ANGELO BRUNACCI -- il primo Macduffo -- Verdi, "MACBETTO".

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Macduffo, tenore, Angelo Brunacci.