Luigi Ottolini
23 August 1925 Milano – 16 March 2002 Suardi
In RA format
In RA format
In RA format
In RA format
In RA format
Having been a bank manager before studying voice with Arturo Merlini in his native Milano, he got a late start: in 1958, he made his debut at Como
in La morte di Frire by Lodovico Rocca. After winning two singing competitions in 1959 (one of them Voci Verdiane in Busseto), he made an
excellent career. He appeared at all major Italian theaters (La Scala, Rome, San Carlo in Naples, Bologna, Palermo, La Fenice in Venice, Torino,
Trieste, Parma, Florence), and also internationally most everywhere, except for the New York Met: Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Covent Garden, Cardiff, Bolshoj, Mariinskij (then "Kirov", of course), Kyiv, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg,
Munich, Vienna Staatsoper, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Strasbourg, Zürich, Geneva, Barcelona, Lisbon, Budapest, Belgrade,
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His repertory was mainly heroic: Manrico, Don Alvaro, Radamès, Don Carlo, Riccardo, Gabriele Adorno, Turiddu, Osaka, Amico Fritz, Canio,
Chénier. He had a long career and was still active in 1982.
Reference: Kutsch & Riemens
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