Giuseppe Paganelli

                 

He studied with maestra Tecla Baldoni and obtained a diploma for the cornet. He moved to Rome and enrolled in courses for harmony and composition at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia. Here he was convinced to study singing with Antonio Cotogni and then in Florence with maestro Carobbi. He made his debut in 1905 at the Fossati in Milan in Don Pasquale. He was immediately engaged by the manager Cesari for his Opera Comica company. For some years he sang in operetta companies, and in 1908 he sang at the Costanzi in Rome in the company of the famous Gea Della Garisenda. He took part in the First World War, and after his retirement settled in South Africa where he opened a singing school.

L'elisir d'amore – Milano, Fossati, October 1905
Don Pasquale – Milano, Fossati, October 1905
La sonnambula – Bari, Petruzzelli, 11 November 1905
Papà Martin (composer Cagnoni) – Bari, Petruzzelli, 18 November 1905
Fra Diavolo – Bari, Petruzzelli, 26 November 1905
Crispino e la comare – Bari, Petruzzelli, 2 December 1905
Il barbiere di Siviglia – Venezia, Rossini, Carnevale 1906
La traviata – Alexandria, July 1906
Tosca – Athens, Falero, August/September 1906
Fedora – Athens, Falero, August/September 1906
Rigoletto – Athens, Falero, August/September 1906
Mignon – Athens, Falero, August/September 1906
La fille du régiment – Milano, Dal Verme, 11 May 1907
The blue moon (composers Talbot & Rubens) – Milano, Dal Verme, August/September 1907
Geisha – Milano, Dal Verme, August/September 1907
Hans le joueur de flûte (composer Ganne) – Milano, Dal Verme, December 1907
Die lustige Witwe – Torino, Alfieri, May 1908
Les mousquetaires au couvent – Genova, Margherita, 3 August 1908
Donna Juanita (composer Suppé) – Roma, Costanzi, 1 September 1908
Marcella (composer Giordano) – Milano, Dal Verme, 9 February 1909
La favorite – Caracas, Municipal, May.June 1909
Faust – Caracas, Municipal, May.June 1909
La bohème – Porto, Principe Real, November 1909
Mefistofele – Porto, Principe Real, November 1909
Demon – Sankt-Peterburg, Conservatory, 6 May 1910
Lucia di Lammermoor – San Juan (Puerto Rico), Municipal, October 1910
Manon – San Juan (Puerto Rico), Municipal, January 1911
Marta – Cremona, Politeama Verdi, 18 February 1913
Dinorah – Santiago de Cuba, Oriente, 4 May 1914
Linda di Chamounix – Trieste, Politeama Rosetti, 3 December 1915
Alina, regina di Golconda (composer Donizetti) – Roma, Quirino, 3 May 1916
Napoli di carnevale (composer De Giosa) – Roma, Quirino, 20 May 1916
Il ventaglio (composer Raimondi) – Roma, Quirino, 19 June 1916
Dantis poetae transitus (composer Refice) – Ravenna, Appolinare Nuovo, 13 September 1921
Il matrimonio segreto – Roma, Nazionale, 6 September 1923
Le nozze di Figaro – Cape Town, Little Theater, 11 June 1934

Columbia, Milano, 1912
11459	I puritani (Bellini): A te, o cara				D4412
11461	Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Se il mio nome		D4413
11462	Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet): Mi par d'udir ancora		D4457, E2458
11470	Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Ecco ridente in cielo	D4413

Columbia, Milano, 1913
41894	L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti): Quanto è bella			D4469, C2433
41895	La favorite (Donizetti): Spirto gentil				D4545, E2458
41897	Don Pasquale (Donizetti): Com'è gentil				D4459
41901	Mignon (Thomas): Ah non credevi tu				D4460, C2720, E1878
41902	Mignon (Thomas): Addio, Mignon					D4460, C2720
41912	Don Pasquale (Donizetti): Tornami a dir				D4459, A1632
	with Cattorini
41935	Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet): Del tempio al limitar		D4457, C2740
    	with Corradetti
41936	La bohème (Puccini): Nei cieli bigi				D9319, E1860
	with Corradetti
?	Fra Diavolo (Auber): Agnese la zitella				D4569
?	Fedora (Giordano): Amor ti vieta				? 	

African Sound Records, Cape Town
	Don Pasquale (Donizetti): Cercherò lontana terra

Record Disc, New York
	'O sole mio (Di Capua)

I would like to thank Richard J. Venezia for the recording (Favorita).

I would like to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recording (Mignon).

Source for the chronology, pictures and discography the extraordinary website of Roberto Marcocci.

Reference: Roberta Paganelli Giuseppe Paganelli. Tenore, compositore, impresario (1882–1956), Comune di Forli, 1998.