Ruggero Raimondi

Ruggero Raimondi ( born October 3, 1941 in Bologna, Emilia -Romagna ) is an Italian opera singer (bass - baritone) and actor.

Life

Ruggero Raimondi studied in Milan and Rome and made his debut in 1964 in Spoleto as Colline in La Bohème. 1965 to 1968 he performed in Venice at Teatro La Fenice. In 1968 he made ​​his debut as Timur in Turandot at La Scala, in 1969 as Mozart's Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne and 1970 as Silva in Ernani at the Metropolitan Opera. At the Royal Opera House in London, he first appeared in 1972 as FIESCO in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, at the Paris Opera Garnier in 1975 as Procida in Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani. At the Salzburg Festival, he made ​​his debut in 1980 as the King in Aida. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Scala, he sang the Philip in Don Carlo, conducted by Claudio Abbado. In 1986, he led the first -time director in a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

In 1992 he sang the role of Scarpia in Tosca at the original locations in Rome in a live broadcast in 107 countries; this production has been awarded three Emmys and reached one billion television viewers worldwide.

Raimondi, who is the successor to Ezio and Cesare Pinzas Siepis is internationally regarded for 30 years as one of the greatest in his field, particularly as an interpreter of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi. He was given his numerous appearances in opera films (as Don Giovanni, directed Joseph Losey, as Escamillo ( Carmen ) by Francesco Rosi, as Boris Godunov under Andrzej Żuławski, as Scarpia ( Tosca ) by Benoît Jacquot ... ) to a wider audience known.