Veriano Luchetti

Veriano Luchetti ( born March 12, 1939 in Tuscania, Viterbo Province, † April 23, 2012 in Rome ) was an Italian opera singer in the vocal range Tenor.

Life

Luchetti was first pilot in the Italian Air Force. However, he then decided relatively late for a singer to be trained his voice professionally and studied singing privately in Milan.

He made his stage debut in 1965 at the Wexford Festival in Ireland, where he sang at the side of the soprano Jeannette Pilou, the role of Alfredo in La Traviata. In 1966, he appeared as Alfredo also at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. In 1967 he won the Concorso del Teatro Sperimentale di Spoleto. In 1967 then his professional debut in Italy at the Teatro Sperimentale in Spoleto as Loris in the opera Fedora, as part of the Spoleto Festival. At the Festival dei Due Mondi in 1967 he sang Ferrando also in the opera Il Furioso all'isola di San Domingo by Gaetano Donizetti. This role he sang in the same year also at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In 1967 he made ​​his debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; then a steeply rising operatic career developed in almost all Italian opera houses. Luchetti sang, among others, in Rome, Parma, Naples and Palermo.

In May 1975 he made ​​his debut at La Scala as Foresto in the opera Attila; He also toured with the ensemble La Scala to Covent Garden, as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra. In 1976, he sang at La Scala, the singer in the opera Der Rosenkavalier; then he has performed with the ensemble La Scala with a U.S. tour in Washington, DC on. He sang Macduff in Macbeth and again the role of Gabriele Adorno. He also sang in 1978 at the season opening of La Scala this role. In 1979, he appeared as Macduff and Gabriele Adorno again at La Scala; these roles he sang in 1981 even with a Japan tour of La Scala in Tokyo. There he also took over the tenor solo in Verdi's Requiem. In 1986, he toured with the ensemble of Milan Sacala in Vancouver; he sang the tenor role in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata under the baton of Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Followed in 1987 by Riccardo Muti with the Verdi Requiem a guest appearance in Berlin.

Several times he made ​​guest appearances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, so among other things in 1971 when Vasco da Gama in 1974 as The African and Enrico in a now regarded as legendary performance of the opera Agnese di Hohenstaufen by Gaspare Spontini. In 1973 he sang the title role in the opera Don Carlos at the Teatro La Fenice, under the musical direction of Georges Prêtre; his associates were Katia Ricciarelli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Piero Cappuccilli and Fiorenza Cossotto. He joined the Festival in the Arena of Verona (1977-1980; 1984-1985 in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata ), at the Ravenna Festival ( in 1986 as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly ) and at the Festival in the Baths of Caracalla ( 1988 as Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West). In 1990 he sang at the Teatro Regio di Torino to Radames in the opera Aida.

Luchetti guested in other European countries, among others, at the Covent Garden Opera in London ( January 1973 debut as Pinkerton; 1974-1975 as Rodolfo in La Bohème, in 1976 as part of the Scala guest performance ), at the Grand Opéra Paris ( 1975 Don Carlos ), at the Festival d' Aix -en- Provence ( 1976 as Jason in Medea, as a partner of Leonie Rysanek ) and at the Salzburg Festival ( 1989 as Macduff ). In April 1973, Luchettis debut at the Vienna State Opera as Pinkerton. He also sang the roles, Rodolfo (1974 ), Alfredo ( 1974-1977 ), Gabriele Adorno ( 1984-1986 ) and Foresto in Attila (1988).

In the German -speaking world, he also appeared at the Hamburg State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

International guest performances overseas he gave at the Opera House of Philadelphia ( debut in 1971 as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and later as Cavaradossi in Tosca), the Lyric Opera in Chicago, at the opera houses of Dallas and Houston and at the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro. In the season 1977/1978 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as Rodolfo in La Bohème. In 1988, he sang under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Don José in Carmen; Luchettis partners in these performances were Marilyn Horne, Mirella Freni, Mietta Sighele and Samuel Ramey.

Luchetti had in the late 1990s largely retired from his active singing career. He stepped still occasionally as a concert singer on, however, was mainly active as a singing teacher. Luchetti was married to the soprano Mietta Sighele. Together with Sighele he organized the Musicians Festival " Rivafestival " in Riva del Garda. Luchetti died April 23, 2012 in Rome.

Repertoire

Luchetti sang on the opera stage an extensive repertoire. It included tenor roles in operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jules Massenet, Luigi Cherubini, Gaspare Spontini, Francesco Cilea, Umberto Giordano. Mainly he interpreted the Italian opera singers. He was regarded as a specialist in the early work of Verdi. He was regarded as an outstanding Verdi tenor, but was always in the shadow of Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras. In addition to his operatic career Luchettis was also a busy concert singer.

Audio

The voice of Veriano Luchetti is held in some sound recordings. There are several complete opera recordings, including studio recordings for EMI, Decca Records and Hungaroton before, as Ismaele in Nabucco (EMI, 1977), Jason in Medea (1979, Hungaroton with Sylvia Sass as a partner ) and as Macduff ( Decca Records, 1986) can be heard. Twice he took on Verdi's Requiem under the baton of Riccardo Muti ( EMI ) and Georg Solti (RCA).

In addition, numerous live recordings were released on CD in recent years. Luchettis main roles are, however, documented a total of only very occasionally on records or other sources. Overall, Luchetti is largely under-represented on recordings; by the re-release of live recordings, including The African Woman (1971 ), Don Carlo ( 1973) and The Sicilian Vespers (1978 ), some of its main parts are now documented yet for posterity.