Forgotten Opera Singers

Forgotten Opera Singers

May 25, 2014

Ubaldo Ceccarelli (Bass) (Pisa 1862 - ?)




He studied at the Parma Conservatoire and made his debut in 1895 at the Arena Federici in Verona in Pisa in G. Verdi’s ‘’Ernani’’. In the 1891-92 season he appeared in Venezia and Trieste. In 1901 he made guest appearance at the Teatro Nuovo in Pisa as Silva in Verdi’s ‘’Ernani’’. In 1911 he sang at the Teatro Municipale of Piacenza as Geronimo in Cimarosa’s ‘’Il matrimonio of segreto’’, the same year he performed at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna as Warlaam in ‘’Boris Godunov’’ and again as Geronimo. In 1916 in the same opera house he sang the role of Benoît in Puccini’s ‘’Bohème‘’.

Chronology of some appearances

1890 Parma Teatro Regio Aida (Re)
1891 Massa Teatro Guglielmi Ruy Blas (Guritano)
1892 Trieste Politeama Rossetti Africana (Don Diego/Inquisitore)
1898 Livorno Politeama Boheme (Colline)
1899 Bari Teatro Piccinni Boheme (Colline)
1901 Cagliari   Politeama Regina Margherita    Tosca (Sagrestano)
1902 Sanremo Teatro Principe Amedeo Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio)
1904 Sanremo Teatro Principe Amedeo Adriana Lecouvreur (Principe)
1906 Pistoia Teatro Manzoni Boheme (Colline)
1908 Palermo  Teatro Massimo Carmen (Zuniga)
1910 Finale Emilia Teatro Sociale Manon Lescaut (Geronte)
1912 Vercelli Politeama Facchinetti Linda di Chamonix (Marchese)
1915 Genova   Teatro Lido d'Albaro Fedora (Cirillo)
1918 Alessandria Teatro Municipale Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo)
1921 Faenza Teatro Masini Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo)
1922 Milano Teatro Carcano Manon Lescaut (Geronte)

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Complete Operas
Gramophone, Milano 1917
Boheme (Puccini): with Bosini, Giani, Andreini, Badini, Bettoni and Baracchi

Gramophone, Milano 1919
Tosca (Puccini): with Bartolomasi, Salvaneschi and Fernandez

Gramophone, Milano 1919-10-13
Tosca (Puccini): E sempre lava with Salvaneschi 2-0254108  903aj 


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