Rolando Panerai

Rolando Panerai ( born October 17, 1924 in Campi Bisenzio in Florence ) is an Italian baritone.

Life

His training took place at the Conservatory of Florence. In addition, later by G. Tess in Milan. It was in 1947, winners of a singing contest in Spoleto and made his debut in the same year at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. His rise began gradually and in 1951 he was appointed to the La Scala in Milan. This was the beginning of a brilliant international career.

In the following years, as he had already become one of the leading baritones of the Italian repertoire, he sang almost regularly with great success at La Scala. The premiere of Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler in 1957 was with his assistance. He has appeared at all the major opera houses of Europe, including London, Paris, Brussels, Vienna. Also at the festivals of Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Edinburgh was repeated admires his unusually sophisticated design capacity, the stylish ability and technical elegance, wrest the musical character of each batch of the respective nuances of the presentation and the presentation without the sound beauty of its wonderfully supple voice overwhelm.

In 1955 he became a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he often in his brilliant games as Silvio in Pagliacci, Belcore and as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte was celebrated in recent years in Donizetti's Elixir of Love.

Several record companies have recorded his voice to complete recordings. Especially here was his recording of Marcello in La Bohème ( Puccini ) highlighted that he has recorded under Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni.