Reto Calli
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Mystery tenor from an age when there were normally no mystery tenors any longer. Not even his name is
entirely clear: he normally appeared as Reto Calli, but from 1982 or 1983 on, all of a sudden, as Reto de Calli. One way or the
other, the name is quite certainly Swiss (Reto is a German name that's exclusively in use in Eastern Switzerland and in tiny
Liechtenstein, its original meaning is "the Rhaetian", a small ethnic group in the Canton of Grisons).
Reto (de) Calli can be found at German theaters in the 1970s and 1980s: at the Theater des Westens in Berlin, and above all in
Saarbrücken.
I would like to thank Ross Halper for the recording.
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