Italo Campanini

Italo Campanini (* June 30, 1845 in Parma, † October 14, 1896 ) was an Italian operatic tenor.

Campanini was a pupil of Francesco Lamperti. He made his debut in 1864 at the Teatro Regio his hometown as Oloferno Vitellozzo in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. From 1864 to 1867 he had an engagement at the Odessa Opera House. In the season 1870-71 he sang at La Scala in Charles Gounod's Faust, the Tietelrolle, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni the Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, 1871 at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the title role in the Italian premiere of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.

1872 debuted Campanini at the Drury Lane Theatre, where he appeared regularly until 1881. He also gave guest performances in Madrid, Lisbon, at the Vienna Court Opera, Barcelona, St Petersburg and Moscow. In Bologna he sang in 1875 in Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele the fist, he gave the same role in 1880 at the British premiere of the opera at Her Majesty's Theatre.

1873 Campanini made ​​her first appearance at the New York Academy of Music. He sang Radames here in the American premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida (1873 ), the Raoul in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots (1874 ) and as a partner of Minnie Hauk the José in the premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen. In 1883 he joined with Christine Nilsson, Giuseppe Del Puente, Sofia Scalchi and Franco Novara in the title role of Gounod's Faust at the opening of the Metropolitan Opera, where he had a commitment from 1891 to 1894. In 1888 he organized at the Academy of Music, the American premiere of Verdi's Otello with his brother Cleofonte Campanini as a conductor.

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