Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

Giacomo Lauri - Volpi ( born December 11, 1892 in Lanuvio in Rome, † March 17, 1979 in Valencia ) was an important Italian tenor Caruso in the follow-up and the author of several books on singing.

Life

Lauri - Volpi studied law at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He then studied singing at the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Lauri - Volpi debuted on September 2, 1919 under the name Giacomo Rubini in Viterbo in the role of Arturo in I Puritani. Since January 3, 1920, he appeared in Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut in Rome, then, under his real name, 1922 in La Scala in Milan. This was followed by performances in New York in 1923, in London in 1925 and in Paris in the same year. 1923-1933 he sang at the Metropolitan Opera, where he retired due to in-house differences. After the Second World War, he retired to his native Italy. There he sang with undiminished vocal presence to old age, not least at the annual Festival of Verona. He also appeared often in guest appearances abroad, including in Wiesbaden with great success.

Lauri - Volpi was one of the greatest tenors of his time, sang all the difficult tenor roles from the bel canto to verismo and shined up to high D. Its traditional bel canto training was Lauri - Volpi in a position to both lyric roles such as Nemorino in Donizetti's Elixir of Love and the Othello from Verdi 's opera singing. His favorite role was the Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore ( The Troubadour ). The Stretta " Di quella pira " belonged in stage performances and concerts of his celebrated showpieces. The recording of the duet Radames Aida from Act 3 of Verdi's opera of the same name by Elizabeth Rethberg is one of the most important recordings of the early 20th century.

The last decades of his life he spent in Burjassot ( suburb of Valencia) in Spain.

As Lauri - Volpi very economically dealt with his voice and knew the type of bel canto singers of the 19th century to produce large effects with small means, he could preserve its voting power to old age and even with over 60 years on stage occur, including with Maria Callas, whom he very encouraged. Had eighty years, he took a plate of well-known opera arias, which can still be seen, over which vocal abilities of the singers for the Giacomo Puccini, the role of Calaf in " Turandot " will have designed, to his great times has.