Giuseppe Morino

Morino got a late start: he made his debut as Gounod's Faust at the Spoleto festival only in 1981, at age 31, after studies with Rodolfo Celletti among others.

His breakthrough came in 1987, as Pilade in Ermione at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. His career was extraordinarily short: after 1995, he sang only a handful of performances. He spent his few years on stage at La Scala, where he sang several times, in Bergamo, at the Martina Franca festival, at the Teatro Regio in Torino, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, in Novara, at the San Carlo in Naples, the Vienna Staatsoper, in Nantes and in Bonn.

He specialized in belcanto: not only "standard belcanto" like Almaviva, Fernand, Gennaro or Edgardo, but a lot of rarer works: Il giuramento, Semiramide, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Gianni di Parigi, Il pirata, Maria di Rohan. He also sang baroque music like La Cecchina by Niccolò Piccinni, he sang Mozart's Tito, Raoul, Duca di Mantova, Italienischer Sänger, Gérald, Nadir or the Astrologer in Zolotoj petushok (The golden cockerel). I heard him as Duca, his voice was nasal and narrow, but he certainly had impressive top notes.

Reference 1, reference 2: Kutsch & Riemens