Gaetano Fraschini

Gaetano Fraschini ( born December 16, 1817 in Pavia, † May 23, 1887 in Naples) was an Italian opera singer (tenor ).

Fraschini first studied medicine, but soon devoted himself under Moretti's line to the song. The success of his first public production in the chapel at Pavia was such that he was hired by the local opera impresario immediately to sing the Alamir in Belisarius.

In the next ten years he sang in Vienna, Bologna, Milan and Naples, since 1850 also in Lisbon, Madrid, London, and finally in 1863 from the Italian opera in Paris, where he joined the notwithstanding his advanced age by the melting and the power voice, by expressive phrasing as well as an imposing appearance and classy game the audience to entrance knew.

A large number of tenor roles created by him, was partly written for him, as in Donizetti Catarina Cornaro Giovanni Pacini's Saffo, Verdi's Masked Ball. End of the 1860s forced him an hearing condition to leave the stage. He was the favorite singer of Verdi.

In Pavia, Teatro Fraschini is named after him.

Portrait

Gaetano Fraschini in Klassika