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Italian opera singer
Lorenzo Salvi
(4 May 1810 ? 16 January 1879) was an Italian operatic
tenor
who had a major international opera career during the nineteenth century. He was particularly associated with the operas of
Gaetano Donizetti
and
Giuseppe Verdi
; notably singing lead roles is several world premieres by both composers.
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Biography
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Born in
Ancona
, Salvi studied under Bonaccini
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who?
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in Naples before making his professional opera debut as Cam
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clarification needed
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in the world premiere of Donizetti's
Il diluvio universale
on 28 February 1830 at the
Teatro San Carlo
. This was followed by several appearance at the
opera house
in
Zadar
in 1830?1831. He then joined the roster of principal singers at the
Teatro Valle
in Rome, singing there through 1832. While with the company he sang several leading tenor roles, including the title role in Rossini's
Otello
opposite
Maria Malibran
as Desdemona and Fernando in the world premiere of
Gaetano Donizetti
's
Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo
(1833).
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Over the next two decades Salvi was one of Italy's leading tenors, singing roles with most of the country's major opera houses. On 21 August 1836 he portrayed Daniele in the world premiere of Donizetti's
Betly
at the
Teatro Nuovo
in Naples. He went on to sing in two more Donizetti premieres, the title role in
Gianni di Parigi
(1839,
La Scala
), and Oliverio in
Adelia
(1841,
Teatro Apollo
).
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From 1836 until 1840 Salvi had a number of lauded successes at the
Teatro Carlo Felice
. A particular triumph was the role of Arnold in that theatre's first mounting of Rossini's
William Tell
(1840). From 1839 until 1842 Salvi was a regular performer at La Scala. While there he notably sang leading roles in the world premieres of the first two operas composed by
Giuseppe Verdi
, portraying Riccardo in
Oberto
on 17 November 1839 and Edoardo in
Un giorno di regno
on 5 September 1840. Other La Scala highlights included an appearance in the original production of
Federico Ricci
's
Un duello sotto Richelieu
(1839) and the role of Tonio in the house premiere of Donizetti's
La fille du regiment
(1840).
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In 1843 Salvi made his first appearances in France at the
Theatre-Italien
as Edgardo in Donizetti's
Lucia di Lammermoor
and Riccardo in Donizetti's
Maria di Rohan
. From 1847?1850 he sang annually as a guest artist at the
Royal Opera, London
, where he had tremendous successes portraying heroes from Donizetti and
Bellini
operas. He also traveled to North America several times during his career, notably performing in a number of operas at
Niblo's Garden
in Manhattan. In 1851 he made a lengthy concert tour of the United States with Swedish soprano
Jenny Lind
. He also took part in the first performance of the
Mexican national anthem
on September 15, 1854.
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Salvi was married to Italian soprano
Adelina Spech-Salvi
who also had an important opera career. After their retirement from the stage, the couple moved to Bologna and worked as singing teachers. Salvi died in Bologna in 1879 at the age of 68.
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References
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Karl-Josef Kutsch
,
Leo Riemens
(Trans., expanded and annotated by Harry Earl Jones) (1969),
A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers: From the Beginning of Recorded Sound to the Present
, p. 487, Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company
ISBN
0-8019-5516-5
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