Roberto Stagno
Roberto Stagno (aka Vincenzo Stagno Andreoli, born October 11, 1840 in Palermo, † April 26, 1897 in Genoa ) was an Italian operatic tenor.
Originally from a wealthy family Stagno studied law and graduated from a musical education at Antonio Cantelli in Palermo and Giovanni Battista Lamperti. In 1862 he made his debut in Lisbon as Rodrigo in Rossini's Otello. In 1856, he took with great success at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the famous Enrico Tamberlik in the title role of the opera Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
In 1868, he appeared with the Prima Donna Désirée Artôt at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. In Italy he debuted in 1870 at the Teatro Apollo, where he among other things, occurred in Meyerbeer's Huguenots, Verdi's Il trovatore and Rossini's Otello. 1879 his first appearance in Buenos Aires took place, to which he returned again and again.
1883 Stagno married in Buenos Aires, the soprano Gemma Bellincioni with which he henceforth often occurred together. Her daughter Bianca was known as an opera singer. In the inaugural season of 1883-84 the Metropolitan Opera he sang the Enzo in Amilcare Ponchielli's the American premiere of La Gioconda.
With his wife, he turned to the repertory of the Italian verismo. He sang in the premiere of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1890 the Turiddu. He worked here in the same year at the premiere of Nicola Spinelli Labilia and Vincenzo Ferronis Rudello, 1892 by Umberto Giordano Mala Vita at the Teatro Argentina and 1895 in Trieste by Antonio Smareglias Nozze Istriane. As a guest, he joined, among others at this time at the Vienna Court Opera, the opera houses of Frankfurt, Zagreb, Brno and at the Kroll Opera in Berlin.
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- Born in 1840
- Died in 1897
- Opera singer
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