Pasquale Brignoli

Pasquale Brignoli ( Pasqualino Brignoli; * 1824 in Naples, † October 30, 1884 in New York City ) was an Italian operatic tenor.

Brignoli had in his youth piano lessons and will have fifteen year composed an opera. Only at the age of 21, he graduated in Naples a solid vocal training. In 1850, he began his musical career as a concert singer. In 1854 he made ​​his debut at the Paris Opera in Gioacchino Rossini's Moses in Egypt. At the same time he completed his training at the Conservatoire de Paris.

In 1855 he came with Max Strakosch to North America, where he established himself as a successful operatic tenor at the New York Academy of Music. He made his debut here as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (1855 ) and sang Manrico in the American premiere of Il Trovatore (1855 ). Likewise, he was here at the American premieres of La Traviata (1856 ) I vespri Siciliani (1859 ) and Un ballo in maschera (1861 ), at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in addition to the first performances of Luigi Arditi's La Spia (1855 ) and Betly ( 1861) with. In Boston, he sang in 1855 Gennaro in the opera Lucrezia Borgia.

In addition, Brignoli occurred in concert tours as a partner of singers such as Adelina Patti (1859 ), Anna de la Grange, Euphrosyne Parepa Pink, Christine Nilsson and Therese Tietjens. 1864, 1865 and 1866, he undertook a concert tour to Europe, respectively. In the 1870s, he married the singer Sallie Isabella McCullough, with which he led his own opera company. Still in 1881 he performed with Anna Abbots traveling opera troupe.

As a composer, Brignoli came out ( in Boston UA 1868) and The Crossing of the Danube with songs and orchestral pieces such as The sailor 's dream. Despite its significant income he died penniless in New York. At his funeral, a specially composed a funeral march was played, and to the pallbearers included not only several opera singers and the conductor and composer Max Maretzek.

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  • Man
  • Born in 1824
  • Died in 1884
  • Opera singer
  • Tenor
Les vêpres siciliennes Lucrezia Borgia (opera) Thérèse Tietjens
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