Giacinto Prandelli
He studied voice in Rome and Brescia and made his first public appearance in 1938, in a Verdi concert in Busseto. In May 1946, he was well-known enough to be chosen by Arturo Toscanini for the post-war inauguration of La Scala with Beethoven's 9th Symphony. His career centered around the Rome opera and La Scala. He also sang a lot in Palermo and at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome. 1951–53 and 1954/55, he was a member of the Met, where he sang Alfredo, Duca, Pinkerton, Rodolfo, Massenet's des Grieux, Gounod's Faust and Don Ottavio. Guest appearances in Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, San Francisco, Lisbon, Barcelona, Florence, Cagliari, Brescia... He sang until about 1970. Il mito di Caino (composer: Franco Margola, Abele) – Bergamo, Donizetti, 29 September 1940 Jamanto (composer: Barbara Giuranna, Ismael) – Bergamo, Donizetti, 10 September 1941 La bohème – Bologna, Del Corso, 7 February 1942 Scene da Faust (composer: Schumann) – Rome, Adriano, 16 February 1942 Madama Butterfly – Padova, Verdi, 25 April 1942 La Wally – Roma, EIAR, 6 June 1942 Taormina (composer: Mulé, Vanni) – Roma, EIAR, 4 July 1942 Tosca – Trento, Sociale, 15 July 1942 La veglia (composer: Arrigo Pedrollo, Il Giramondo) – Roma, EIAR, 23 July 1942 L'ospite inatteso (composer: Pick Magiagalli, Sigismondo) – Roma, EIAR, 23 July 1942 L'ostessa di Prà (composer: Piero Giorgi) – Roma, EIAR, 5 September 1942 Gli Orazi (composer: Ennio Porrino, Publio) – Roma, EIAR, 8 October 1942 La Gioconda – Torino, EIAR, 17 October 1942 Rigoletto – Padova, Verdi, 8 November 1942 Dafni (composer: Mulé, Dafni) – Venezia, La Fenice, 13 March 1943 La granseola (composer: Adriano Lualdi, Marchetto) – Roma, dell'Opera, 17 April 1943 Le nozze di Haura (composer: Adriano Lualdi, Maner) – Roma, dell'Opera, 17 April 1943 La traviata – Roma, dell'Opera, 18 April 1943 Madama Butterfly – Bologna, Verdi, 11 May 1943 Resurrezione (composer: Alfano) – Torino, EIAR, 6 August 1943 Adriana Lecouvreur – Trieste, Verdi, 8 January 1944 Gianni Schicchi – Milano, Lirico, 14 April 1944 L'amico Fritz – Venezia, La Fenice, 31 October 1944 Le villi – Milano, Lirico, 29 November 1944 Manon – Novara, Coccia, 1 January 1945 Faust – Mirandola, Municipale, 7 October 1945 Lohengrin – Parma, Regio, 17 January 1946 Mefistofele – Palermo, Politeama Garibaldi, 20 November 1946 Zazà – Palermo, Politeama Garibaldi, 3 December 1946 Werther – Cesena, Comunale A. Bonci, 29 December 1946 Peter Grimes – Milano, Scala, 11 March 1947 Lucia di Lammermoor – Alessandria, Comunale, 22 March 1947 Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (composer Claudel/Honegger) – 4 April 1947 Fedora – Milano, Scala, 7 January 1948 Louise – Roma, dell'Opera, 11 March 1948 La passione (composer: Malipiero) – 23 June 1948 Le roi David – Milano, Scala, 23 June 1948 Jepthe (composer: Carissimi) – Firenze, Comunale, 16 January 1949 Francesca da Rimini – Roma, dell'opera, 29 March 1949 Il dottor Antonio (composer: Franco Alfano, Antonio) – Roma, dell'Opera, 30 April 1949 Don Pasquale – Milano, Scala, 20 May 1950 Don Giovanni – Milano, Scala, 15 January 1951 Cecchina o la buona figliola (composer: Piccinni, Marchese della Conchiglia) – Milano, Scala, 24 February 1951 Falstaff – Siena, dei Rinnovati, 20 September 1951 Proserpina e lo straniero (composer: José Juan Castro, Il mito) – Milano, Scala, 17 March 1952 Il ratto dal seraglio (Belmonte) – Milano, Scala, 2 April 1952 I gioielli della Madonna – Roma, dell'Opera, 26 December 1953 Amelia al ballo – Milano, Scala, 24 March 1954 La fiamma – Milano, Scala, 25 March 1955 Il tabarro – Roma, dell'Opera, October 1955 Persefone (composer: Stravinski, Eumolpo) – Roma, dell'Opera, 14 April 1956 Manon Lescaut – Vigevano, Cagnoni, 9 October 1956 I maestri cantori di Norimberga – Trieste, Verdi, 5 January 1957 Il tesoro (composer: Jacopo Napoli, Armando dei Ricci) – Roma, dell'Opera, 26 February 1958 I dialoghi delle Carmelitane (Cavaliere de la Force) – Roma, dell'Opera, 17 March 1958 Rodelinda (composer: Georg Friedrich Händel, Grimoaldo) – Torino, RAI, 21 June 1958 La scuola delle mogli (composer: Rolf Liebermann, Orazio) – Milano, dell'Arte al Parco, 26 November 1958 Khovanshchina (Andrea Khovanskij) – Genova, Carlo Felice, 11 March 1959 Il vortice (composer: Renzo Rossellini, Renato) – Milano, dell'arte al Parco, 25 June 1959 Günther di Schwarzburg (composer: Ignaz Holzbauer, Carl) – Milano, Conservatorio, 2 November 1959 Lucrezia (composer: Ottorino Respighi, Collatino) – Roma, dell'Opera, 7 March 1960 Hulda (composer: César Franck, Eyolf) – Milano, RAI, 23 April 1960 La guerra (composer: Roberto Rosellini, Erik) – Roma, Foro Italico, 8 October 1960 Lodoïska – Roma, Foro Italico, 10 November 1960 Boris Godunov (Dimitri) – Bologna, Comunale, 16 December 1960 Re Hassan (composer: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Hussain) – Napoli, San Carlo, 20 May, 1961 La morte di Rasputin (composer: Nicolas Nabokov, Yussupov) – Catania, Massimo Bellini, 15 February 1963 Reference: Cornelia Pelletta Giacinto Prandelli, Del recitar cantando; Azzali Editori, Parma, 2003 I would like to thank Thomas Silverbörg for the recording (Wally). I would like to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recording (Lohengrin). |